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Never mind the bollocks! (Growing old disgracefully) : Comments
By Ross Elliott, published 11/9/2014If you were aged 25 when The Sex Pistols first crashed onto the music scene in 1975, you'll be 65 years old next year. This isn't so much a lesson in demography but one of attitude.
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is that it is at least 15 to 20years in the future when they predict
it. A lot of those now in their 50s, 60s,70,s will be
dead by then.
It is actually the generation after the baby boomers that is going to really cause the problem because for what- ever reason,economic,the falling out of favour of marriage and wanting to live a full life without the cares and worries of too many children, which is perfectly understandable, the later baby boomers and the generation after them just don't have the same amount of children as the early baby boomers had after the war, when families of 4 were still common.
Also the early baby boomers had their children years earlier & few
went on to university.
Their children were ready to step into the work force as much as a decade earlier to compensate for the ranks of the aging who were leaving the work force.
This younger generation points the finger at us, but they should
have a better look at the prediction years for the crisis, it
is they who will be a burden on society.
With the aged being predicted to be 1 in 4 to the workers at that point, I wonder how many out of that 4 they will require for nursing jobs to look after them.
I laughed at the shock of some of the ones always pointing the
finger at those in their 60's and 70's now and calling them a burden when they realised that Abbott was talking about their generation instead. Hope they enjoy being a burden the way they always said the present aging contingent of the baby boomers were.
Cheery thoughts to all