Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year
by jazzkingrt on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @11:57AM
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Both my parents are 60+, my father is in his mid seventies, and they are as productive as ever.
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Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year
by smcl on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:03PM
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Congratulations to them. My dad has worked manual labour since he left school aged 15 - first as a shipbuilder and then in the oil industry. My mum retired from teaching a year ago then developed lymphoma.
Both of these people are in their 60s and have earned their retirement - we need not extract any more "productivity" from them. Leave them be.
Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year
by hobofan on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:12PM
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So instead we should extract a few more percent of productivity out of everybody who is pre-retirement age for every additional year of life expectancy?
Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year
by thatcat on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:28PM
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The alternative seems to be keeping the young under employed
Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year
by nradov on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @12:46PM
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Are you referring to the "lump of labor" fallacy?
https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2021/january/refuting-...
Re:BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year
by thatcat on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:25PM
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No, that refers to job openings across industries, specifically mentions agriculture jobs declining as other industries grow. Look at the median age of say politicians or tenured professors to see what I'm talking about.