A few years ago the pensionable age in the UK was shifted from 65 to 67, then 68 and then setted at 70 but there are thoughts within the Conservative Party that it should go to 75 as 'people are living longer' although the bit about 'and all these pensions are costing us a fortune' is implied rather than said aloud but currently the cost to the Government for state pensions is £170 billion and they would save tens of billions if there was no so many pensioners still alive to claim it.
The pension system was designed in an age when workers spent their lives toiling and then died a year or past blowing the candles out on their 65th Birthday cake but as life expectancy creeps upwards, the younger generation are heading for a new era in the workplace of a career that runs from 16 to 75, a 59 year career if you don’t have a handsome workplace or private pension so you can take your creaking
knees out of the rat-race sooner.
It may not be a problem if you enjoy your job but the people who work past retirement age because they enjoy their job is thin on the ground, the vast majority still dragging themselves into work each day for financial reasons, they seem to be averse to starving or freezing to death it turns out.
So as the Government look at ways to save money, they have already looked to scapegoat the unemployed/disabled/foreigners/EU for taking your taxes so expect pensioners to become the new bad guy for living too long but my sympathy is with anyone born after 2000 as they will be the ones who’ll have to work when they’re infirm and dribbling down the front of their uniform.
Unless of course robots take all our jobs but i was warned of that when i was a kid and it hasn't happen to me yet so find a job a robot can't do, not mine though, i got years of doing the same thing i have done for the past 30 odd years.
Sunday, 23 January 2022
Enjoying Your Job Much?
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