Posted on 01/29/2023 9:19:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
You can go ahead and work as long as you want, leave the rest of us alone. My retirement age is 67 and I plan to do so. I very likely will have a retirement “career” but that will be my choice, not the governments.
Yes, this is a VERY SERIOUS QUESTION. I'm 63 and on the job market, IT professional, very good resume, but am being passed over very likely because of my age (and that I'm not an Indian). And it will only get worse. What, am I supposed to go from good income IT professional to compete for Walmart greeter?
“Since you posted this article, what’s your reply to my question: what companies are hiring people in their 70s?”
The hardware stores are full of 70+ people. They’re the best employees there. Many departments store also hire older people.
There’s also this crazy thing you can do called working for yourself. I started doing that at 26. Retired at 60. Yet I still sort of work in my 70’s at real estate investing because it’s so much darn fun.
Get the illegals that the charity groups put on SS off SS, and stop the FAT disability for disability!
1. What are you proposing to do about inflation? The money I paid into SS back in 1963 should have been invested and I should get a lot more out than I put in. Look up "the time value of money".
2. How about we only allow money paid into SS to be invested in the world total stock market? No picking political favorites, just a huge index fund.
Now if you want to limit that to just the US total stock market that is OK too, but total stock market has a lot of appeal. The thought of Euroweenies working their buns off to pay for my retirement warms my heart.
This would be less of a problem if the American oligarchs invested broadly in technology expanding productivity of workers. Instead the US elite decided to send 50,000 factories to China from 2001 to about 2016. Letting productivity enhancing technological development take place in other parts of the world has a knock on effect in addition to disemploying the American working class.
NOBODY or at least not many.
That is what was so absurd about that floriduh congressman from key west saying “People want to work longer” Not just absurd but stupid and tone deaf.
Hardly anyone wants to work until they are 75 and most people can’t.
My late Dad and I retired at 67, that was enough. He lasted 10 years and I hope to be able to go longer. I worked as long as I wanted to. Comes a time you no longer fit in when most of the people you work with are young enough to be your kids or younger.
“Means testing” is bald face communism.
At this rate just raise it to 100 so that no one alive will ever get to use their money.
I paid in, I want what’s owed to me.
Presently, I would say at age 50....you might already have some problems in finding new employment, and at 60...more than 50-percent of companies will skip over you. This is a bogus discussion topic with politicians.
So, forcibly extract all that money from working propkr and then postpone any pay back until after most of the victims die.
In short — slave labor.
Government should incentivise use of tobacco, vaping, and hard drugs...
I have a much better idea: Permanently eliminate at least half of state, local and federal government “jobs.” We’ll save tons of money by destroying that segment of the parasite class and also cut down mightily on the waste, fraud, laziness, stupidity and lawlessness it propagates throughout society.
Yeah, that’s all true, and I’m cool with the Mises thinkers,
but a deal is a deal, and a promise is a promise.
As we learned with covid, the average lifespan in the us is 73.
Young people, particularly college graduates, have less than nothing to offer. Not only do they have not just bad but downright awful attitudes, but they don't know anything and they don't want to learn.
It won't be a quick transition for a lot of companies, but there is a large potential market out there for older workers.
60+ workers have a huge amount of experience and their work ethic is beyond compare.
True unrecognized jewels in the American working world.
As an aside, I had a brief consulting assignment at a small company several years ago and we had a computer emergency one day. Time was of the essence. I asked a young man (about 23 y/o) standing nearby to run down to the supply room for something and I said, "you'll have to hustle."
He looked at me with disdain and said, "I don't hustle for anyone."
I don't know whatever happened to that young man but his future is dim. And given that he is representative of today's youth, I would say to those hoping to build a workforce of these types of workers, your future is equally dim unless you consider older workers with good old-fashioned work ethics.
Yup! Those were my first thoughts too.
Going to have to tackle that ‘age discrimination’ issue first.
I've read that some retirees are finding work at fast food chains or as Walmart greeters. Both those jobs pay minimum wage.
Of course, most retirees are not only old, they're white. Which makes it especially difficult for them to find decent jobs in corporate America.
But as I near eligibility, it seems they want to yank it away.
Many of America's "diverse youth" long to see "old, white folk" die off. Preferably in pain and poverty.
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