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In reply to the discussion: Unemployable At 50 Fate Of Present And Future Workers [View all]fasttense
(17,301 posts)According Chris Hayes, the Nazi propagandist moved to the US after WWII to run corporations.
Both my husband and I are over 50, disabled vets and even though we have our own health care through the military, no one will hire us when they find out how old we are. It's kind of funny really. We get lots of interviews (no age on our resumes) but once they see us and realize we are over 50, we never get the jobs.
We started our own business farming because no one would hire us.
It's not about corporations having to pay high medical bills because of our age, because we make it clear we will be using our military health care benefits. It's about corporations not wanting to have older people in the workforce, simple discrimination.
The jobs are going to get fewer and fewer because as businesses create huge empire like corporations, they need fewer and fewer people to do the work. As the jobs dwindle, instead of everyone sharing in reduced hours and longer vacations, certain people, those over 50, the disabled, young people, minorities are singled out and told NO JOB FOR YOU. Instead of the entire society deciding how the jobs will be distributed, a few greedy psychopaths get to make that decision.
Welcome to capitalism's greatest failure.