It's time. Soc Sec needs to be expanded to age 50. If Congress cannot provide a job before

[Archaic]

14. I work with a ton of people holding on for dear life

They *should* all retire. They should go relax, not work so hard, travel, enjoy life.

This would open up management spots for the younger folks to move up.
This would open up middle spots for the entry folks to move up.
This would open up entry spots for grads to move in.

But they're scared to death, and will work every minute they can to hold on. And I don't blame them. Who would want to start drawing on pension/SocialSec any earlier than they absolutely had to.


Automation, software and materials science are going to lead us places where we might have a 40% systemic unemployment. Where there are 100 or 1000 applicants per job available.

So it's in our best interest to figure that out now. Because if we don't figure it out, and we get there, it'll be a bloodbath.

If we could figure out a way to fund social security, and lower the retirement age to 50, we might make it through that process.

It's a fascinating subject. How do you maintain a quality of life, without overpopulating the planet more than we have, without overconsuming everything even more than we have? And how do you extend a basic quality of life/health to everybody?