Thanks, I bailed before I got there........... Buried near the end of the article is his point, ........
First time I've read one of his articles.
Unfortunately, he took a good subject and mangled it with rambling drivel, poor grammar, and misspelled words...
Take your choice. Marauding gangs of unemployed and disaffected youth or hobbling throngs of terminated geezers eating away at the fabric of American society, all clawing for the few jobs left in the United States.
Buried near the end of the article is his point, I guess, that earlier retirement age removes older people from the work force to make jobs available for younger ones.
I can see it now. Groups of over aging citizens walking about the city, panhandling, shoplifting goods, drinking beer and tossing the bottles onto the street, and causing fearful teenagers to walk on the other side of the road.
And that's just the women.
But, in the long run, we've always found that more workers leads to more people applying for jobs, leads to employers finding profits at the margin by growing businesses, leads to more wages, leads to more demand for goods, leads to ....
Unless it really is "different this time", over the long run the number of jobs will grow to match the number of workers.
*more commonly called "the lump of labor fallacy"
Thanks, I bailed before I got there.
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