I don’t love everything about ageing,but it has its good points. I want to thrive in this stage,not feel burdened with pressures.
Addiction is one concern here,sure. But more dangerous still is the culture this creates.
Content creators make the wrong call.
Catching beneficiaries on the rebound.
Young people have been cutting back on items such as groceries and health insurance,while over-65s have increased spending in almost every category.
Not every Boomer is hell-bent on plundering the natural world,locking everyone else out of the housing market and decapitating the letterbox on their way down the driveway.
Until I sat filling yet another box with the contents of yet another bookshelf,it had not struck me that my life now is about getting smaller.
One way to limit the budgetary cost of superannuation is to make its sole purpose to allow people to live comfortably in retirement. That’s not what’s going on now.
The cost of aged care will grow hugely in the coming decade. Older Australians,who have the means to pay more for their own care,should do so.
An expert taskforce has told the Albanese government that taxpayers should fully cover the care costs of older Australians,but not certain living expenses.
Sure,my “snowflake generation” may need mental health breaks,but Boomers could buy a house before they were 25. And where they got Donald Bradman,we got Donald Trump.