The Demographic Drought - Baby Boomers are Retiring in record numbers

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34. Interesting!

Goes a long way in explaining the right-wing's push for women to have as many babies as possible (even those they can't or don't want to carry) or RonJon's proposal to force retirees back into the work force. But, of course, these are surface solutions that don't speak to the long-term ramifications. It also underscores the self-wounding of immigration limitation to insane levels.

Think millennials get short shrift in the analyses, the idea that their generation isn't as interested in work. Seems to me they aren't interested in shitty work situations, the soul-eating jobs of the past. That resolution is up to a corporate mind-shift, a turn-around in the easy-to-fire and replace attitude or cutting your most skilled workers for workers who will take less pay, benefits and more abuse. Because they must.

As for the Boomer Generation? Yes, we're aging out, particularly in jobs requiring physical strength and wellness. That should not be a surprise nor the transfer stats of manufacturing, mining, construction workers to retail positions. The work is less physically demanding. Same thing for full-time work to part-time work. As to the opioid disaster? We can thank the Sackler family and depraved greed for that. The solutions are much harder to find than the deliberate addiction assault on a vulnerable population.

The GOP translation of all this? Laziness, takers got to take and drug addicts aren't worth the trouble.

This is another instance where we can see the work force problem is not limited to the US. It's a world-wide phenomenon. We're linked to the world whether we like it or not.