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When visiting the US, I was struck by how many elderly workers there were in restaurants, subways etc. Japan was similar. In Australia, I never see this. The r
by Gatsky 10y ago
When visiting the US, I was struck by how many elderly workers there were in restaurants, subways etc. Japan was similar. In Australia, I never see this.
The reasons are presumably:
1. Australia has ok free healthcare
2. The baby boomers have generated massive wealth over the last 50 years because of the property market.
Point 2 certainly won't be repeated for the next generation.
- icebraining 10y agoCould Australians continue to work into old age if they chose to? Your post implies they're being forced to work in the US and Japan, but it may be the opposite: that they have less options in Australia to keep working despite wishing to do so.
- Gatsky 10y agoI don't think that is very plausible, nothing to stop Australians working as long as they like. The retirees in Australia seem to be playing a lot of golf, travelling and looking after their grand children, to make a gross generalisation.
- peteretep 10y agoIn the UK, I never see this, but I saw it and found it a little shocking in Amsterdam.
- lacampbell 10y agoAustralia has high immigration levels, and so a larger pool of younger workers to do menial jobs. Japan does not - quite deliberately.