US Politics

[Teddy Eagle]

The disabled already receive exemptions. Too many in my opinion. Everybody capable of watching TV or using a computer all day can work. Not humping bricks up ladders but answering phones, giving advice, providing company or transferring data. People with experience can supervise and train. AI is already doing useful work but it has limits. It cannot replace the touch of human contact or provide company.

I was a manager in my thirties. I had a team I led and supervised. I was successful but I was a much better manager in my 60s and streets better now, in my 80s, because of experience and the wisdom of age. I draw pensions but I have never fully retired. The work I do now is unpaid and voluntary but it still contributes.

Good for you; an example to us all. Anyone capable of watching television all day can work? Four year olds can do that - presumably they can skip nursery school and make a proper contribution to society.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

Importing foreign labour is a ponzi scheme....it's been said so many times it irritates me. Imports get old too and I don't know if you hadn't noticed genius but you are living on an island that is smaller than the state of Nevada.....Hell, Texas is three times larger than Britain's landmass.

It's always been automation or bust, for aging western nations. All people like you have supported is the import of future conflict, some of which you see now and your politics is responsible for those inevitable tensions and unfortunate clashes to come.



You can think it all you like, it's not going to happen on any significant scale.

It will, because ultimately there will be no other choice for many.

The retirement age men and women working the tills and collecting trolleys at supermarkets are the vanguard. Do you think they do that for fun or because they need to?

Delaying retirement will become usual and, in time, the state pension age will advance too. There will be no alternative.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

It will, because ultimately there will be no other choice for many.

The retirement age men and women working the tills and collecting trolleys at supermarkets are the vanguard. Do you think they do that for fun or because they need to?

Delaying retirement will become usual and, in time, the state pension age will advance too. There will be no alternative.

Aren't they being replaced by automated check outs? An alternative is to stop importing workers who will in future put extra demand on the pension system.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

Back to US politics. I watched this video of Professor Jeffrey Sachs talking about Trump’s understanding of economics again this evening. It’s both amusing and damning. It’s also really concerning because the truths he lays out are pretty irrefutable.

Just ignore the ads etc!

This guy is about to host Putin and hand him a diplomatic victory in return for nothing, just because of his vanity. Yesterday he said he didn’t trust Zelensky because he was the one who started the war. Putin is playing him like the dumbest fish that ever swam.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

Aren't they being replaced by automated check outs? An alternative is to stop importing workers who will in future put extra demand on the pension system.

Some are and it will grow of course, but it’s not going to be enough. Get this right and we should be able to reduce the need for immigration. Some sectors more than others with healthcare being the obvious exception. Our need for doctors and nurses is only going to increase and they are jobs the elderly cannot do.