Re: Work-til-you-drop America

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eubulides wrote:
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> From: PEN-L list [mailto:PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Remick
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> [The NY Times propaganda mill is working overtime getting folks used to the
> idea that the postwar "Golden Years" concept of retirement -- which, all of
> a sudden, is being described as not just economically unrealistic but also
> emotionally stultifying

Marx thought that work should be mixed with education for children --
but he didn't think children should work 12 hour days!

Similarly, in a reasonably decent society, in which no one worked more
than (say) 20-30 hour weeks, it would be sensible for those over (say)
55 to go on working (say) 8 or 10 hour weeks! _Mere_ retirement is
something like the warehousing of students in schools simply to keep
them off the streets and the job-market.

Carrol