Nomadland Exposes the Middle-Class Rip-Off

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4. There's even more bad news on the horizon.

Many of the "traditional" supplemental employment opportunities for seniors are drying up. Automation and changing purchasing habits and options, are making retail and customer facing jobs obsolete. In the recent past many seniors who have faced shortfalls in their retirement portfolio have turned to these types of low paying, but not too physically demanding types of jobs to survive. It's not reasonable or even feasible to expect grandma and grandpa to be climbing ladders picking peaches. When those lucky enough to even have 401k plans in the first place, come to realize that all of those "emergency" withdrawls come back to haunt them, they'll have even fewer options to survive than they do now.