terça-feira, maio 14, 2024

Curiosidade do dia

Agora é a vez de mais um "enviado da troika", Martin Wolf, em "Increased longevity will bring profound social change":

"People will have to work longer and pension systems will need to be transformed. [Moi ici: Come on! Qual o político com eles no sítio para nos dizer isto na cara?"]

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In the UK in 1965, the most common age of death was in the first year of life. Today the most common age to die is 87 years old. [Moi ici: Olha, o 25 de Abril também teve efeitos na mortalidade infantil do Reino Unido]

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in 1990, there were only 95,000 people over 100 years old in the world. Today, there are over half a million, and rising.

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Equally clearly, a world in which most are likely to live into their 90s, many even longer, needs to be thoroughly rethought. The idea of 25 or so years of education, 35 years of work and then, say, 35 years of retirement is impossible, for both individuals and society. It is certainly unaffordable. It is also likely to produce an empty old age for vast proportions of the population.

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It is going to be necessary to work longer as a matter of course. This is also going to require several changes in one's career over a lifetime. [Moi ici: Já oiço os piegas que antes da troika se reformavam aos 55 anos. Apre!] Instead of one period of education, one of work and one of retirement, it will make sense for people to mix the three up. People will go back to study, repeatedly. They will take breaks, repeatedly. They will change what they do, repeatedly. This is the way to make longevity affordable and, as important, bearable."

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