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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My personal thought is that people are going to work longer if they are healthy enough.

A lot of the retirees/forced-out older managers and execs from my F500 company seem to not fully retire.  Even re-emerge with new full-time corporate jobs after a few years off.

My grandpa retired from a corporation at 65 and lived to be 94.  [b]He easily could have worked until 80-85.[/b]

If economics change in ways that make it useful or necessary for retiree age people to work, it will happen.[/quote]

If it's expected that I have to work FULL TIME until 80s I'd rather be euthanized.  Unless someone really loves their job to the point of passion, or they work some easy hobby job part time for social interaction nobody in their right mind aspires to be a wage slave till the day they drop dead with limited vacation time, living for a weekend, and having to answer to bosses and clients all day long majority of your day.  F this.[/quote]

It doesn't have to be expected.  Those who don't like any job should manage their work, savings, and cost of living so they can retire earlier.  Those who do like their job should be able to work longer.

My main points are related to the hypothesized labor shortage presented early in this thread.  If labor is scarce, wages might rise and there may be less age discrimination. People who would like to work longer may be able to.  People who need to work longer for whatever reason would also benefit from less age discrimination/greater acceptance of older people in the workplace.

There will be no need for your assisted suicide, PP.[/quote]

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