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Also incredible when life expectancy is falling, and currently at 77. I guess everyone will be just like Boxer, the Clydesdale from Animal Farm - work until yo
by grecy 3y ago
Also incredible when life expectancy is falling, and currently at 77.
I guess everyone will be just like Boxer, the Clydesdale from Animal Farm - work until you die.
- theodric 3y agoThis is how they fix the problem of falling birthrates incapable of supporting pensions with infinite growth: retirement carrot on a stick, tiny percentage of people actually get to eat it. Suicide will grow in popularity, mark my words.
- musicale 3y agoImagine all the money we will save. You don't want to be a burden on your children or society do you? It's basically just an accelerated version of what we already have.
- betaby 3y agoCanada is a avant-garde at that!
- grecy 3y agoCanada, like many Developed countries, allows medically assisted suicide given very strictly checked criteria for terminally ill people. After watching my Mum die slowly of lung cancer over almost three years, I find anything else to be extremely inhumane.
- betaby 3y agoVery strict like 'not having a girlfriend' and 'can't get social hosing'. At that point Canada's euthanasia laws are less strict in the world I think. > After watching my Mum die slowly of lung cancer Did she express desire for the euthanasia ans was denied?
- grecy 3y ago> At that point Canada's euthanasia laws are less strict in the world I think. Canada's Euthanasia laws are very much in line with other Developed countries. > Did she express desire for the euthanasia ans was denied? Yes, but she was in a country that doesn't allow it.
- betaby 3y ago> "the problem of falling birthrates" Rhetoric moved from from 'depopulation' to 'aging population' to 'falling birthrates'
- jewayne 3y agoI mean, haven't deaths of despair been growing for around 20 years now?
- theGnuMe 3y agoYep. Home Depot and Walmart are full of retirees working.
- crims0n 3y agoOnly seven years of rest after half a century of work… how depressing.
- wmf 3y agoIIRC life expectancy was 68 when they set the retirement age at 65 so that was only three years.
- civilitty 3y agoYou load 1,600 Amazon packages, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt St. Bezos, don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to a counterfeit store