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Another idiocy from EU bureaucrats, vast majority of people are physically and mentally not capable of working past 75 and nothing in the foreseeable future wil
by googletazer 10y ago
Another idiocy from EU bureaucrats, vast majority of people are physically and mentally not capable of working past 75 and nothing in the foreseeable future will change it. Another social issue is that they're simply unemployable - what kind of an employer would hire a 75 year old? A 75 year old doctor or lawyer might keep their practice, but they're in the realm of the small business owner.
- hiram112 10y agoYou're downvoted but absolutely correct, even though you offended the easily-triggered HN crowd. 3 of my 4 grandparents are now passed, and there is absolutely no way they would have been able to be a net asset in any actual profit driven and competitive enterprise while that age these days. Sure they might have been able to do something 'helpful' like read to young children or some other volunteer-like job, but these types of pseudo employment require more time and energy from actual workers for coordination than the worth of the labor itself. By mid 70's none of my grandparents had the technical abilities to perform adequately in a non-physical office position, nor the physical tenacity to work a more demanding service job. Very few 75 year olds I've met would be any different. Of course this all is a moot point since we now have competition between millenials and 45 year olds in some industries. what makes anyone think there are jobs available for the very old, even if they could be productful?