LogFAQs > #979352795

Ever since my dad got laid off and retired early at the start of the pandemic, I've been studying up on retirement planning to help my parents strategize for it. The one thing I advocate for vigorously is an expansion of Medicare to at least 62 (obviously I'd prefer Medicare for all, but I'm picking my battles here) so that it aligns with the earliest possible social security age. We'd see an explosion of 60-62 year old retirees, which would finally give Millennials and Gen Z a crack at meaningful career opportunities that still manage to evade them.

And it's not like the move would hurt businesses THAT much. A 60-year-old employee who's counting down the months to retirement is just someone who's gobbling up a fat paycheck and not contributing any innovation. Let them retire and bring in a 30-year-old (who might actually have some new ideas) to replace them.

The culture of lifelong corporate servitude really is the point.