Yeah my main reasons for saying 60 is you should get to retire when you still have a lot of healthy years left to enjoy, and because I don’t believe there’s actually enough work to have people over 60 working. They’re taking up jobs that could be taken by younger people, which is part of why advancing in careers is so much harder. Honestly I think we could probably set retirement age at 55 and be fine.
And for politicians, I think being older specifically changes your interests in ways that can be really dangerous, like with climate change. If you’re old climate change is just not as big of a problem for you, and because of that I don’t trust old people to hold power. You don’t get to pick what we order for the table right before you leave.
They’re taking up jobs that could be taken by younger people
Having "too many" people who can work should never be considered a problem in the first place, and it's only capitalism that makes this into a problem.
If we didn't organize our economy around workers competing with each other on the labor market to sell their bodies to a capitalist who will run them into the ground for as cheaply as possible, and instead had workers democratically organizing their own labor, then having more people than you need in the labor pool just means everyone is able to work less. "Many hands make light work."
Yeah my main reasons for saying 60 is you should get to retire when you still have a lot of healthy years left to enjoy, and because I don’t believe there’s actually enough work to have people over 60 working. They’re taking up jobs that could be taken by younger people, which is part of why advancing in careers is so much harder. Honestly I think we could probably set retirement age at 55 and be fine.
And for politicians, I think being older specifically changes your interests in ways that can be really dangerous, like with climate change. If you’re old climate change is just not as big of a problem for you, and because of that I don’t trust old people to hold power. You don’t get to pick what we order for the table right before you leave.
Having "too many" people who can work should never be considered a problem in the first place, and it's only capitalism that makes this into a problem.
If we didn't organize our economy around workers competing with each other on the labor market to sell their bodies to a capitalist who will run them into the ground for as cheaply as possible, and instead had workers democratically organizing their own labor, then having more people than you need in the labor pool just means everyone is able to work less. "Many hands make light work."