can the elderly be a source of liability in a fast changing knowledge based economy?
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definitely NO............
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Quite likely, as we can't afford to fund the future pensions (Government), the way pop.  incomes are going.\n\nWill
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Older people have a wider pool of experience to draw from.  I don't know anything specifically about your older friends, but there are some things I would do differently if I had the chance to do them over again.  My life is okay, but I believe it would be a  lot better if I had finished college.  That's just one example.  It's not that younger people are dumb, they just haven't had 20, 30, 40 years of making good and bad decisions to avoid making mistakes based on previous knowledge.
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I kinda always had the impression that 65 was the magic number.\n\nOf course, senior discounts start at 55.\n\nMaybe, elderly isn't a specific age, though.  It sounds more like an adjective used to describe someone becoming feeble because of age.
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it seems the older one gets the more medical insurance is needed!
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Considering the technology and legal changes in the last 20 years, off the top of my head, I'd say yes.\n\nIs this a specific question, or just general homework.
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No.  It's entirely possible that there will still be a program called "Social Security," as names sometimes last longer than things, but over the next few decades technology is going to change so dramatically that very little of the current political and economic paradigm will be able to survive intact.  Social Security is already somewhat anachronistic (it assumes structurally, for instance, that a 65 year old is beyond their useful working life and near death) and as reality continues to change around it there is no question that it will have to be transformed in ways which leave it unrecognizable. <3
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The systems set up in the 30's and 40's weren't designed to handle today's strain.  Retirement and Social Security have been and are being abused.  The were designed as temporary relief during and after the depression and not for every single man and woman who was no longer able to work.  During that period of history it was expected that when your father could no longer work because of age or illness you were to take him in and support him with your income.  Non-physical job holders (white collar) like lawyers and doctors often worked until death as the physical toll is supposedly not as great as say an iron worker or a lumber yardsman.  During the depression that tried and true system of people not forsaking their families was no longer working.  Retirement plans offered new job openings as well as security for those workers who could no longer work as efficiently as in the past.  Social Security relieved the burden of the young working families having to support parents who could no longer support themselves or other younger family members who had a disability or had been injured.  Today it is abused.  It is expected that everyone fend for themselves in a dog eat dog world.  Nuclear families are the trend and few take in the parents after retirement.  (Few parents want to be taken in due to this radical change in national mentality)  Disability and unemployment programs (such as welfare) were never designed to endure this much draw into its funds.  The idea was that if you needed federal assistance to live humanly, you did everything in your power to get back off.  Unfortunately too many people do not subscribe to this idea. (Although there are many, many recipients of welfare that do want to get off and eventually succeed in doing so, it only takes one rotten apple to ruin the barrel.)  So there you have it.  Programs that are antiquated in a world where things are constantly evolving = near utter failure of "how things should be"
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Sorry I must be getting old too ! Did you say you were already dead and wanted to be frozen. Must be going deaf !\n\nI was studying your Avatar for signs one way or another.\n\nI agree with the other respondents your strategy does seem to be high risk.\n\nI might be easier to give some money and live for seven years. However, I can understand you want to enjoy all of it right up until the last minute.\n\nYou could consider a family trust fund.\n\nRe the reclaiming of tax ( was that a double re ) it is your Estate that would be taxed not you as you would be presumed dead. Either way, I think you only have five years to make a claim for repayment of tax.\n\nGood Luck with the liquid nitrogen.
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The point of fault, which came under scrutiny too late, is actually a big one. The general functions are researched and performed very thoroughly, but I think there is general agreement among high-level economists and experts that the board which is to review the Regulation T limit, very much as the much publicized interest rate meeting, severely failed in their responsibility in the 90s. If they had tightened the actual fund requirements for margin accounts during the early 90s' (they never changed it, incidently) we would have had a much more stable economy over the past 20 years, and a much stronger one today.
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yes, economically the aging are of no benefit to thesociety they are retiree that need to be feed by the youth population
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Are you suggesting that with improving technology we are living less long?\nIf so I can think of nowhere to find evidence to say you are correct.\nGenerally, improving technology goes hand in hand with greater lifespans, although the relationship is far from causal in every case.
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Age is directly related to poverty financially. When you start earning a salary from a job or income from a business, your economic worth is higher at the age of 20-35, it ebbs down when you reach your peak age of 45-55 and goes down abruptly to less and less from age 60-75 until it gets down to ZERO. \n\nBut for those who prepared themselves while young and have residual income, insurance and investments, their net work remains in a plateau, where from age 50-75, their income from insurance, investments, or trust savings will stretch them through and they can still enjoy the good life during their waning years.
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It is a fact theres nothing mythy about it. The fact is that one needs to save as much as one can so that the elderly years are spend in comfort.
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The short answer is yes!  \n\nWith a high level of population movement to QLD, its \n\neconomy should be growing and tax revenue also growing.  \n\nWhile it is true that health care for retirees is draining,\n\nit is also true that these retirees are cashed up and \n\nbringing all their disposable income to QLD, and stimulating\n\nreal estate sales as well...which in turn stimulates the\n\nbuilding industry.\n\nThe upgrading of roads due to population increase or\n\nmaintainence is an infrastructure issue, and is the duty\n\nof any GVT, but particulary one that attracts retirees,\n\nlocal tourists, and international tourists and their money!\n\nAdd to this the fact that QLD is subsudised by THE NSW Gvt \n\nalmost a billion dollars per year due to the Federal GST \n\nlaws and you have every right to complain. \n\nGood Luck\n\nJimmy
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yes. i am currently providing consultancy to a women who is owning and running a botique (cloth shop) for last 10 months. the business in getting mature with smart returns. \n\nwhich topic or issue you want to brainstorm, please?\nwaiting for your words.\nAbMahar