@exonauts I am sorry to hear of your mom’s struggles. I hope her fortunes improve soon. IMO a whole bunch of folks should have gone to jail over the 2008 recession. (FWIW, I got hit pretty hard too.)
I was just relating my experience. Of the ten folks I currently know well that are working past retirement age; nine are doing it for other reasons than making ends meet. They range from 69 to early 80’s and occupations from attorney to construction foreman. Several have government pensions. Only four have degrees. There are many individual reasons they like working, but a common thread is that they are not ready to be old. As my 73 year-old boss says with a wink, “Old people creep me out.”
The flaw in the article is that when you have multiple demographic trends pointing the same direction you need more than opinion, even expert opinion, to sort out what is going on. My intent was not to deny that things are not right for a lot of people.
