▲ 450 ▼ U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids (fortune.com) submitted 1 year ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world 60 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29037456 I feel like this is relevant to the sub. If not, feel free to remove.
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children) So they're saying they want us to die on the job. That might be okay for some but I still want to at least pretend to retire before I croak permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago Otto von Bismarck moment. (Context: dude instated pretty much the first pensions system in the world to try and stop the Marxists gaining influence, and allegedly asked the guy in charge of making the program to set the retirement age at a value where most of the population would die before reaching it. Iirc they settled on 70 years old, which is definitely too old for the average 19th century factory peon) permalink fedilink source parent [–] prembil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago Otto von Bismarck moment. (Context: dude instated pretty much the first pensions system in the world to try and stop the Marxists gaining influence, and allegedly asked the guy in charge of making the program to set the retirement age at a value where most of the population would die before reaching it. Iirc they settled on 70 years old, which is definitely too old for the average 19th century factory peon) permalink fedilink source parent