Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Age Discrimination and Employment

Here's an article about being too old to hire but too young to retire. I think it's a huge problem in America today, where unemployment is already a long-term problem for many people. Lose your job and you may never get another one -- and simply be discarded by society as being of no use to it. So then there's this large and growing number of people with no means of support, who become a drain on resources instead of producing resources. That's a waste of human capital on practical terms, as well as being inhumane on moral terms. And then of course society wants to blame the victims. That's just evil.
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natf

natf

March 27 2012, 08:00:15 UTC 9 years ago

Same in the UK. I expect this is the case in most first-world countries.