Raising retirement age - Sustainsble solution?

[StriderX]

The entirety of the working class will be replaced by robots built be the intermediate class and funded by the elite.

Only a couple days ago did i read an article about robotic brick layers being tested and large construction corps wanting to fund it, which leaves me with the idea that all bricklayers have a pointless job already(they obviously don't, but soon will), which is actually quite sad.

That is a given, ultimately maintenance becomes the new working class and society evolves upwards.

This will be a recurring issue until we agree to deal with it in a pleasant manor, it could be dealt with by simply eradicating the entire working populace, but that is neither morally sound nor logical (what if all the machines broke scenario), so we really do have to find a pleasant way, just ignoring it with increases in pension age is utterly pointless.

 

[isonomicjedi]

The entirety of the working class will be replaced by robots built be the intermediate class and funded by the elite.

Only a couple days ago did i read an article about robotic brick layers being tested and large construction corps wanting to fund it, which leaves me with the idea that all bricklayers have a pointless job already(they obviously don't, but soon will), which is actually quite sad.

That is a given, ultimately maintenance becomes the new working class and society evolves upwards.

This will be a recurring issue until we agree to deal with it in a pleasant manor, it could be dealt with by simply eradicating the entire working populace, but that is neither morally sound nor logical (what if all the machines broke scenario), so we really do have to find a pleasant way, just ignoring it with increases in pension age is utterly pointless.

see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22152212

3D-printed house.

 

[SlyReaper]

By the time it gets really bad, we'll be on to bionic implants etc. anyway. The retirement age will be about 156 then.

As long as I get to be this guy:

Bring it on.

 

[StriderX]

see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22152212

3D-printed house.

Perhaps, however someone might enjoy bricks and you cannot print rock (well not yet ).

(just saying )

 

[apeksdiver]

With old people filling all the jobs the young will just stay out of work on benefits. Is that better than letting people retire so that the younger peolpe can take their jobs and pay tax etc?

 

[dowie]

Technology isn't a problem in itself, and indeed, without the need to be better we'd probably have died out thousands of years ago!

The problem is when it's in conjunction with to high a population, with a finite amount of resources.

Population demands are growing, especially with an ever increasing expectation (we can't just deal out the RDA of calories and nutrients and expect people to be happy. Something that was never a problem for our society, it's now that China's middle class keeps growing, 300,000,000 and rising, along with other areas of the world, that we have a problem) from the world.

We also can't keep expanding into the tertiary sectors, as the fuel they run on is finite and is becoming even more so. (Not just oils, but rare minerals, forestry etc etc).

All is fine and dandy NOW, but I reckon it's not going to be sustainable for a lot longer. There will come a time when a few million more people is going to be far more problematic than a billion or so now.

That's rather a different issue and one I agree with - lack of resources will be a problem in future. I was commenting on the idea that technology replacing certain jobs was a problem.

 

[Entropy]

If the govt raise retirement age by much it won't matter to a great deal of processes.
There was extensive research carried out into a relatively stressful job, a hospital consultant, and on average, those who worked to 60 could expect to live for 18 years, those who worked to 65, could expect to live for 18 months.
Such a difference.

I doubt many folks would want me half blind and decrepit treating them when I am seventy years of age.

Such a difference, yet such a load of rubbish as well.

 

[No1newts]

With old people filling all the jobs the young will just stay out of work on benefits. Is that better than letting people retire so that the younger peolpe can take their jobs and pay tax etc?

This is ultimately what I foresee happening.