Ready to Work Until You Die? America Needs You

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Is this a prelude to pushing out the retirement age even further?

I don’t mind working but at some point I don’t want it to be about survival and more about keeping busy and helping society.

This is absolutely about anchoring and messaging, the labor supply shortage due to the Boomer retirement rate, as well as a desire by a cohort to reduce entitlement benefits like Medicare and Social Security.

America doesn’t need a labor death march; it needs automation, strong social safety nets, and more equitable productivity distribution. Then we can talk about providing meaningful work as citizens age and have the desire to continue to contribute (and are able to).

We can’t even provide meaningful work to most 18-55 year olds why do you think we would be able to do that for old people. Lots of meaningless jobs out there

America needs the fruits of labor to be given to employees rather than shareholders. It has to be more profitable to work than to invest.

this.

rich people make their money either investing for others or investing for themselves and are rewarded with paying less taxes on that income than people that work.

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