Rockie wrote: ↑Sat Jun 23, 2018 3:30 am
It’s not a flattering look.
Rockie,
You are turning into an ideologue. Life is far too complex to be able to apply an ideology without common sense and consideration of the collateral damage. But this is what fanatical ideologues do anyway. Anything pointed out that can’t fit in the ideologues limited view of right and wrong is discarded as inaccurate, intolerant, biased, fabricated.......etc etc etc.
What was expressed in that article was an opinion different than your own. An opinion with valid points. An opinion that deserves respect. The fact is the change in retirement age has had consequences for younger generations throughout all of our society and just because it doesn’t fit your ideology doesn’t mean you can just ignore it. That would be irrational. It would be intolerant. It would be willful bias. It would be behaving the exact way you claim you want stopped.
Forget your microscopic focus on AC. We are developing a lost generation of highly educated and under employed young adults in this country, because they have limited opportunities as the retirement age change reaches a new equilibrium. Yet these youth are being pumped out of university at a rate which once could accept them, but currently can not. That’s a fact. In fact that acceptance rate has been permanently altered for every generation that follows. In this ever changing technological environment it is extreamely difficult to remain relevant in ones field after 3-5 years of non participation. As a result young Canadians are being left out. Denied the same opportunities you and I enjoyed.
Then my peers ( yes I’m getting up there myself) have the gall to complain that thier 30 year old can’t support themselves yet. Duh!!!
But in your ideology that’s fine because the youth don’t have rights under the charter. Any expectations they had for equality are reduced, derided and chided as intolerant “entitlement”. If they persist they get painted with an ageism brush.
An example. For medical students after two years of going unmatched in residency their career in medicine is over. By 2020 it is expected that over 100 medical students in this country, that year alone, will go unmatched.
Guess why? There is no where to go. Openings in specialties are drying up as there is no movement currently. Far worse than our industry in fact. We have been fortunate at AC as the retirement age change has been relatively small (5 years) and masked by growth. If the same changes had happened during the industry consolidation of the mid 2000’s as perponents of the change wanted? The results would have been catastrophic for those who were younger.
For illustrative purposes only. If our economy needed 1000 new box makers every year to replace those retiring in the box making industry when the average career was 40 years. Then the economy only needs 800 new box makers every year if the average career becomes 50 years. It’s simple math. It’s not just the fact no new box makers will be needed for 10 years as the average career transitions from 40-50 years. Even after rebalancing at the new retirement career of 50 years only 800 new box maker positions will come available every year to replace those retiring.
To my fellow peers who are younger. My apologies. Not for the age of retirement increasing. That was inevitable. We are living too long. It’s not realistic to expect one can work for 40 years, then retire for another 40. That math doesn’t add up. I applogize because my generation, the ones who were in charge of rule making, changed the rules in a way that benefitted only us.
Not all of us believe this is right or ethical.
Expunge agiesm yes. At the expense of others NO!