[PEN-L:28149] pensioners want part time work

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Notwithstanding Juriaan's comments about how to construct questionnaires,
it was inevitable, and probably in some sense true. The BBC in London is
carrying a story that some finance advisory agency has reported a survey
that 90% of people would like to be able to work part time after retirement.

The agency comments that this could also help the national pension
shortfall, and the labour shortages in countries like Britain.

So this looks like an open door waiting to be pushed. The wage slaves of
advanced capitalism have been made suffiently anxious by the stories about
capital falls and pension fund insolvency, that they wish overwhelmingly to
lower the value of their labour power by accepting reality: with the
average life expectancy being lengthened by new technology, modern
intelligent wage slaves no longer expect to be able to reproduce their
culture by being allowed to do no work by the time they are 65, only to
drop dead two years later. They expect to want to remain active and would
not mind doing some work in order to get some more money for continued
leisure spending. Or to avoid starvation. Either way they are prepared to
lower the price of their labour power, and continue to enter the labour
market as partial wage slaves after their 65th birthdays.

Major problem of late finance capitalism hereby solved. It should also help
the market for anti-wrinkle cream.

Chris Burford

London