FAA unlikely to raise age 65
07-29-2022, 07:18 AM
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Agree to disagree. I think most of us will fair fine. Margaritas are on me if we ever cross paths on a layover. Good luck to us all, as we're just along for the ride. If any of us think we have a say in things, we are mistaken. Keep it at 65, I will be fine. Raise it to 70, I will be fine. I may not be happy about it, but I will be fine. I'm a survivor.
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07-29-2022, 07:46 AM
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Worth pointing out that boomers, once they outgrew the filthy hippy/ dope smoking phase, did embrace the economy whole-hardheartedly.
* what I mean by that is the kind of work ethic that makes trains run on time, grain shipments flow, and all the other heavy industrial underpinnings of the 21st century information age work. We may call it "information age" but that's actually just frosting on top of the industrial cake. Eight billion people cannot survive on rooftop gardens and sustenance farming... the vast, global industrial machine is absolutely essential just to keep them all fed and watered. Failure of said machine will result in famine, plague, and warfare on a scale that will make the holocaust look like a sunday school picnic.
I know way too many youth who are chasing their "passion", which usually involves small, niche businesses or gig work (often non-profit) which offer infinitely flexible schedules. While they're pursuing van life and activism, who's going to make the trains run on time (or at all)?
** not really talking to anyone on here, professional pilots are obviously manning an oar in the machine. What you do on your days off is of course your business.
07-29-2022, 08:03 AM
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I tend to suspect that once boomers retire if Y/Z etc haven't developed a more traditional collective work ethic** that there will be very lucrative opportunities for Gen X in our later years, if so inclined. Probably write your own ticket and set your own schedule.
Worth pointing out that boomers, once they outgrew the filthy hippy/ dope smoking phase, did embrace the economy whole-hardheartedly.
* what I mean by that is the kind of work ethic that makes trains run on time, grain shipments flow, and all the other heavy industrial underpinnings of the 21st century information age work. We may call it "information age" but that's actually just frosting on top of the industrial cake. Eight billion people cannot survive on rooftop gardens and sustenance farming... the vast, global industrial machine is absolutely essential just to keep them all fed and watered. Failure of said machine will result in famine, plague, and warfare on a scale that will make the holocaust look like a sunday school picnic.
I know way too many youth who are chasing their "passion", which usually involves small, niche businesses or gig work (often non-profit) which offer infinitely flexible schedules. While they're pursuing van life and activism, who's going to make the trains run on time (or at all)?
** not really talking to anyone on here, professional pilots are obviously manning an oar in the machine. What you do on your days off is of course your business.
Worth pointing out that boomers, once they outgrew the filthy hippy/ dope smoking phase, did embrace the economy whole-hardheartedly.
* what I mean by that is the kind of work ethic that makes trains run on time, grain shipments flow, and all the other heavy industrial underpinnings of the 21st century information age work. We may call it "information age" but that's actually just frosting on top of the industrial cake. Eight billion people cannot survive on rooftop gardens and sustenance farming... the vast, global industrial machine is absolutely essential just to keep them all fed and watered. Failure of said machine will result in famine, plague, and warfare on a scale that will make the holocaust look like a sunday school picnic.
I know way too many youth who are chasing their "passion", which usually involves small, niche businesses or gig work (often non-profit) which offer infinitely flexible schedules. While they're pursuing van life and activism, who's going to make the trains run on time (or at all)?
** not really talking to anyone on here, professional pilots are obviously manning an oar in the machine. What you do on your days off is of course your business.
07-29-2022, 08:18 AM
#124
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I tend to suspect that once boomers retire if Y/Z etc haven't developed a more traditional collective work ethic** that there will be very lucrative opportunities for Gen X in our later years, if so inclined. Probably write your own ticket and set your own schedule.
Worth pointing out that boomers, once they outgrew the filthy hippy/ dope smoking phase, did embrace the economy whole-hardheartedly.
* what I mean by that is the kind of work ethic that makes trains run on time, grain shipments flow, and all the other heavy industrial underpinnings of the 21st century information age work. We may call it "information age" but that's actually just frosting on top of the industrial cake. Eight billion people cannot survive on rooftop gardens and sustenance farming... the vast, global industrial machine is absolutely essential just to keep them all fed and watered. Failure of said machine will result in famine, plague, and warfare on a scale that will make the holocaust look like a sunday school picnic.
I know way too many youth who are chasing their "passion", which usually involves small, niche businesses or gig work (often non-profit) which offer infinitely flexible schedules. While they're pursuing van life and activism, who's going to make the trains run on time (or at all)?
** not really talking to anyone on here, professional pilots are obviously manning an oar in the machine. What you do on your days off is of course your business.
Worth pointing out that boomers, once they outgrew the filthy hippy/ dope smoking phase, did embrace the economy whole-hardheartedly.
* what I mean by that is the kind of work ethic that makes trains run on time, grain shipments flow, and all the other heavy industrial underpinnings of the 21st century information age work. We may call it "information age" but that's actually just frosting on top of the industrial cake. Eight billion people cannot survive on rooftop gardens and sustenance farming... the vast, global industrial machine is absolutely essential just to keep them all fed and watered. Failure of said machine will result in famine, plague, and warfare on a scale that will make the holocaust look like a sunday school picnic.
I know way too many youth who are chasing their "passion", which usually involves small, niche businesses or gig work (often non-profit) which offer infinitely flexible schedules. While they're pursuing van life and activism, who's going to make the trains run on time (or at all)?
** not really talking to anyone on here, professional pilots are obviously manning an oar in the machine. What you do on your days off is of course your business.
many would say no.
07-29-2022, 08:46 AM
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07-29-2022, 08:49 AM
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07-29-2022, 08:50 AM
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07-29-2022, 09:55 AM
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07-29-2022, 11:04 AM
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People need an outlet for their natural energy and ambitions. Might be able to redirect that somewhat to activities with lower environmental impact. Kind of like sports, which is a benign outlet for our tendency towards conflict and warfare.
Colonizing the solar system might a good outlet... whole lot of resources out there, and essentially unlimited free energy.
I don't know that many govs are actually incentivizing that. Maybe a couple with very top-heavy population demographics which make their social system untenable long-term.
And again, human nature. If you try to forcibly PREVENT people from having kids in most places, you'll be swinging from a lampost in short order. Honestly not sure how the CCP got away with it for so long. Captive audience I guess. And their policy backfired, with a severe shortfall of female children.
07-29-2022, 11:10 AM
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The highest birthrates, by far, are in the poorest, least economically developed nations. Every country in Africa has a very high birthrate. Central and South America - other than Brasil - have high birthrates, as does the Middle Eastern region in general, Kazakhstan and Mongolia, Indonesia and Philippines, etc.
Conversely, the lowest birthrates tend to be in the most economically developed parts of the world - Europe, Russia, China, Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Brasil.
So, are those of us from the more developed world going to simply tell the citizens of the less developed world to stop having so many kids? I'd love to see how well that message goes over with the people of those countries.
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