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Re:In Aging Singapore, 65-Year-Olds Are Learning How to Code by rayiner on Sunday September 15, 2019 @07:32PM (#20980099)
My parents are past 65, and my mom is still easily able to spend a full day taking care of our 1 year old, and my dad spent the last few weeks cutting down trees on his property. (They spent the first 40 years of their life in Bangladesh, so your point about healthcare probably isn’t correct either.) Only a small fraction of people work hard physical labor that someone 65-75 could not do. And of course some people won’t be able to do even a normal service job, but you don’t need everyone to keep working, just most people.

As to the societal failure—its a self-engineered one. Maybe some day we’ll have robots doing all the work, but we’re not there yet. Singapore’s GDP per capita is $90,000 per working person. Enough where you can have a functional retirement system, but not so much that doubling the number of retirees per worker won’t seriously be painful.

Re:In Aging Singapore, 65-Year-Olds Are Learning How to Code by frequentnapper on Sunday September 15, 2019 @08:13PM (#20980228)
here we go... anecdotal evidence starting with "my such and such can do such and such" so it must be true for most people. I am 38 and last year I tried doing dish duty in a kitchen just for the heck of it and my back couldn't take more than 4 hours at a time.
Re:In Aging Singapore, 65-Year-Olds Are Learning How to Code by crispinb on Sunday September 15, 2019 @08:39PM (#20980299)
Isn't this thread fragment all anecdotes & unsupported generalisations, on both 'sides'?
Re:In Aging Singapore, 65-Year-Olds Are Learning How to Code by coldtea on Monday September 16, 2019 @06:58AM (#20982842)
If you mean we only provide actual experience from society, and not statistics and what some expert said, in a topic that's not about stats, then yes.
Re:In Aging Singapore, 65-Year-Olds Are Learning How to Code by crispinb on Monday September 16, 2019 @07:13AM (#20982917)
You are reacting, not responding.
Re:In Aging Singapore, 65-Year-Olds Are Learning How to Code by coldtea on Monday September 16, 2019 @06:58AM (#20982837)
>My parents are past 65, and my mom is still easily able to spend a full day taking care of our 1 year old, and my dad spent the last few weeks cutting down trees on his property.

Well, those 65+ years old working their asses of to make ends meet would also jump at the chance to play with their grandkids and tend to their garden and trees at their on their (usually non-existant) estate.

How this is non-ironically compared to everyday, forced, minimum wage, work at 65+, is beyond me. This is "let them eat cake" through and through...

Re:In Aging Singapore, 65-Year-Olds Are Learning How to Code by confidantlake on Sunday September 15, 2019 @08:03PM (#20980205)
My parents are younger than 65. My dad has health issues. He can't chop down trees. If he can hold his fork without dropping it then it is a good day. Without a government pension he would be SOL.