Re:In Aging Singapore, 65-Year-Olds Are Learning How to Code
by coldtea on Monday September 16, 2019 @06:49AM
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Is it equally inexplicable why able-bodied 8-10 year old children are not allowed to work in factories like in the past?
People advocating these things lack all kinds of empathy, and are themselves seldom (ie. never) the ones forced to work in shitty jobs at 65+... If they were 65+ and had to stand up all day working to make ends meet or end homeless in the street, they'd sing a different tune. And they'd see exactly how "able-bodied" those 65+ are.
That's the second worst problem of privilege - not just having the upper hand at various situations, but not being able to get into the others' (that don't) shoes at all. You don't even have to be born into privilege for this, often the worse offenders are people who worked (and lucked/had connections/took chances others in their situation never had) themselves upwards into society, so on top of their current privilege and distance from those everyday experiences they add their contempt for the billions that did not (since if they did it, everybody could).
People advocating these things lack all kinds of empathy, and are themselves seldom (ie. never) the ones forced to work in shitty jobs at 65+... If they were 65+ and had to stand up all day working to make ends meet or end homeless in the street, they'd sing a different tune. And they'd see exactly how "able-bodied" those 65+ are.
That's the second worst problem of privilege - not just having the upper hand at various situations, but not being able to get into the others' (that don't) shoes at all. You don't even have to be born into privilege for this, often the worse offenders are people who worked (and lucked/had connections/took chances others in their situation never had) themselves upwards into society, so on top of their current privilege and distance from those everyday experiences they add their contempt for the billions that did not (since if they did it, everybody could).