There’s been little protest about lifting Australians’ retirement age. But it hits some harder more others: Indigenous men and women, and the growing number of older people pushed onto JobSeeker.
It depends, right? There are lots of people who enjoy working, but the problem is that the work that people want to do isn’t the work that bosses want them to do. In studies on UBI, very few people choose to become couch potatoes.
Cost of living is so shit here that most people can’t afford to retire at that age anyway. There might be some older Gen-Xers who complain, but they’re not exactly known for protesting.
Counter question:
Why are the Australians not more mad?
Work is shit. Nobody wants to work.
Aussies aren’t big on protesting against anything. They just grumble and get on with it. Wouldn’t want to be called a whinger.
But yet they’ll throw stuff at the clerk if they take too long to ring them up or sneak in a tax at the register.
Or tossing out their PM at the drop of a hat.
Or someone trying to hijack a plane
Or drunks on the bus.
I think they are big on protesting. They don’t see it as whinging either. They see it as not putting up with shit.
That’s not entirely true.
Lot of CEOs LOVE their job, bankers too.
It’s just the people doing actual work who tend to hate their jobs.
It depends, right? There are lots of people who enjoy working, but the problem is that the work that people want to do isn’t the work that bosses want them to do. In studies on UBI, very few people choose to become couch potatoes.
Cost of living is so shit here that most people can’t afford to retire at that age anyway. There might be some older Gen-Xers who complain, but they’re not exactly known for protesting.