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    Die alternde Gesellschaft werde „schwerwiegende Folgen“ für junge Menschen haben, warnte die Regierung


    Die alternde Gesellschaft werde „schwerwiegende Folgen“ für junge Menschen haben, warnte die Regierung

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ageing-society-lords-report-boomers-pensions-retirement-b2887845.html

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    1. Historical_Owl_1635 on

      Worrying what they’re saying about potentially having to close schools as the number of students is decreasing.

      Teacher is usually considered one of those “safe” careers.

    2. Imaginary-Bluff-7599 on

      Yeah feel like nobody dies anymore. It takes forever and dragged out ad infinitum even if quality of life if seriously deteriorated.

      Unpopular opinion but newer generations should be given opportunity to take the lead over geriatrics eg 80 year old politicians that aren’t forward looking, because why would they be

    4. 420te on

      … assisted dying would help. I would like this option instead of dying old and lonely in a carehome.

    5. radiant_0wl on

      Largely due to the debt burden placed upon them because of government policy.

      If they want to tackle the issue I would suggest they start with changing unfunded public sector pensions and not leave it to the next generation to cover the costs for.

    6. LowMaintenancePrick on

      Could we possibly support parents with the critical task of child rearing?

      Idk, maybe affordable childcare, tax breaks, that sort of thing?

    7. mickey_kneecaps on

      An entire society that’s basically a nursing home, where the young exist solely to provide for those who’ve already lived the meaningful lives that their descendants/servants will never be able to afford.

      A dystopia so bizarre and perverse that it’s hardly been imagined even in fiction.

    8. Banjo_Scofflaw on

      This isn’t news, I remember my grandad talking about the demographic time bomb in the late 80s

    9. PuzzleheadedFlan7839 on

      The world’s population cannot keep growing the way it is, it has to shrink. Medicine has brought us to a point where we can choose when to have children and has prolonged our lives, the last ethical dilemma we have is the choice of when to die. DNR is the closest we (UK) have to this currently.

      Me personally I would like to spare myself and my loved ones the horror of deteriorating in a nursing home for months or years like my grandparents did, but can see the argument that some families would pressure their elderly into assisted suicide in order to get their mitts on the inheritance.

    12. _abstrusus on

      No shit.

      But we (absurdly, not just old people) continue to refuse to except this. We’re started shafting younger people in earnest back around 2010. There’s no real sign of this changing.

      It’s both morally indefensible and utterly stupid as it will completely undermine the UK going forward.

    14. Jensen1994 on

      There should be an age limit on politics at both ends. You need experience but also you need to be in touch with society.

    16. TheFergPunk on

      I’d say at this stage the ageing population is becoming if not already the biggest issue the UK faces but it’s an issue where we are terrified to discuss because no convenient solutions exist.

    17. derrenbrownisawizard on

      What do you mean ‘will have’? We already have one of the highest tax burdens and a large proportion of spending goes on benefits for the elderly (yes, the state pension is a benefit). We can’t buy houses because Doris and George live in a 5 bed semi-detached, we can’t have progressive governments because the same cohort keep voting for governments that serve only their interests. That’s not even to mention successive lockdowns to protect the elderly (obviously the right decision at the time)- but there’s been very little appreciation for how much difficulty other generations *already* and *continue* to experience

    18. Express-Pie-6902 on

      And people said Boris Johnson was bad.

      Covid was such a missed opportunity to free up housing stock.

    19. Spudsmad on

      Should Farage take control then retirement will be at death ?
      Or on reaching say. Age 70 years then you are compulsory entered in a lottery.
      Lucky numbers get a one way ticket to Switzerland , to you know who !!

    21. StHughofLincoln on

      Might get a lot of hate for this, but we really need to think about why we are prolonging peoples lives. My gran had a pacemaker fitted at 95, she died only a year later.

      I don’t know what the solution is, but stuff like that on a large scale isn’t helping anyone

    22. z-hog on

      Sacrifice the younger generations economic prospects to fund retirees and then they are surprised no one can afford to having kids, what a clown fest.

    26. real_priception on

      And us rhe Government gonna do anything about this?! NO OF COURSE NOT.

      Banning VPNs is what’s important

    28. GreenStuffGrows on

      I remember our geography teacher talking about this. In 1992.

      Why tf are we so bad at planning?

    29. CanaryWundaboy on

      Eventually young people will realise the endgame here and vote overwhelmingly to reject the control of the older generations and start trying to make the world a better place for them and the future generations.

      Right?

    30. Nice_Put4300 on

      More tax for the young! More protections for the elderly incoming! More triple lock! Raise the state pension age to 90!!! That’ll teach them youngens!

    31. Rimbo90 on

      „will have“ haha good one.

      The pension situation has already dragged the country into the shitter.

    32. thefogdog on

      They’re well aware, they just don’t give a rat’s arse as it won’t be their problem.

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