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The Biggest Strike Since 1926?
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Glad I'm not at home though, no Metro = likely chaos.
The government has already spent it.
Aye... and they don't care either, they know they have the power to get away with it.
we have the opposite.
Someone has got to keep the technology working.
And you got later retirement, because technology makes worse easier... so you can do it longer!
How does that help the pension situation though? That would make it far worse.
With advances in medicine and the general trend towards higher age rates, then I don't see any problem with the Government rising the age to 67, maybe even 70. Though there should be a limit on manual labour.
Welcome to capitalism.
Working harder and longer is how it works. The rate of profit tends to fall over time, so we are made to work harder and longer. Basic Marx.
Capitalism is why there are the technoligical advances. The state is why they wind up in relatively few hands.
Oh and don't forget that there are tens of millions of people sat round doing fuck all but accepting stolen money from the government.
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It isn't that they have to work longer as such- it's that they were promised one thing, signed up to it, paid their money in, only for it to be snatched out of their hands when they come to claim it.
They have my full support, even though it is going to grind Tyne and Wear to a halt tomorrow. We still have an underground system owned and operated by local government for the benefit of all, so we have no Metro tomorrow.
It is everything to do with capitalism, really. Simplistic but accurate.
You're the one complaining "when i was a kid we were told that technology would mean ...less work ...earlier retirememnet.
we have the opposite."
What else is to blame? The Moomins?
Yes its all capitalism's fault :crying:
Or perhaps it is the declining birthrate :chin:
Average hours worked have infact decreased over time.
ETA: ah another pretty graph mind posting a few links?
That's from an Australian site
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1799518.stm
Source?
http://www.management-issues.com/display_page.asp?section=research&id=421