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The Guardian view on ‘unretirement’: older workers could help with labour shortages (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Economically inactive" 🤣

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are not old, they are economically inactive. Hmm, I can see it becoming a thing..

[–] yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And we have no more old people in this country. No more old people. We shipped them all away and we brought in these senior citizens

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Well, I’m getting old and it’s okay because thanks to our fear of death in this country I won’t have to die. I’ll pass away or I’ll expire like a magazine subscription.

What happens in the hospital. They’ll call in the terminal episode, the insurance company will refer to it as a “negative patient care outcome” and if it’s the result of malpractice they’ll say it was a therapeutic misadventure.

I’m telling you some of this language makes me wanna vomit. Well, maybe not vomit. It makes me want to engage in an involuntary personal protein spill.

— George Carlin

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

George Carlin is a fuckin' legend. This man satarized the west harder than Volcano fucked Pompeii.

[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Being able to look forward to terms like "economically inactive" and "unretirement" makes being classified "biologically inactive" and "unalive" seem better and better, here and now.