“Please Sir, will we ever reach retirement age?” – ‘Ramblin’ News’ No.4
Channel: ramblinactivist
Date: 2023-05-29

Ramblinactivist’s Videos, 2023/16, Strawberry Moon 2023.

As the Government threatens to raise the retirement age, again!, why is there no discussion about ‘Multidimensional Poverty’?

As I explain, those in the bottom-half of the affluence spectrum can expect to continue to work to retirement while experiencing chronic ill-health – with the poorest 10% working an average 14 years with chronic health conditions before retirement. If the pension age increases to 68, then the least affluent 70% of the population can expect to work to retirement with some form of chronic health condition.

Traditional stereotypes about poverty, based within the establishment's four-hundred year-old principle of, ‘the deserving and undeserving poor’, cannot encompass these complex relationships. Therein lies a deeper truth.

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Chapters:
00:00 Opening titles;
00:29 1. Prologue;
01:47 2. Structural inequality versus “Putin’s War”?;
03:39 3. Excess deaths in Britain;
04:56 4. The rising pension age;
07:05 5. The ‘Daniel Blake’ effect;
09:30 6. ‘Multidimensional poverty’;
10:58 7. Epilogue;
11:45 Closing credits.

#greatresignation #retirement #poverty #health #disability #costoflivingcrisis #chronicillness