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In reply to the discussion: Time magazine=Millennials Are Lazy, Entitled Narcissists Who Still Live With Their Parents [View all]Skidmore
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Do you seriously think that older people don't have bills? Once you are past whatever age you consider old, do we stop needing food, shelter, clothing, etc.? Do you think these needs are free? Do you think that people are just retiring to lives of leisure? Many are working well beyond retirement at jobs just as crappy. That is reality too. I can't tell you how many people I know who have been forced into retirement to make room for younger people who don't make the same demands on the system and won't organize to ask them. A few lucky ones might be able to get together a freelancing career or work as consultants, but many are taking jobs that pay nowhere near what they earned before or fully utilize the training and years of experience. You see, we all inhabit the same plain. All the angst you experience now will be with you when you have gray hair and the aches and pains of an aging body.