More on helping older workers

I've written about helping older workers previously (see links below), and now just want to list a few brief points (which I noted some time ago, but am only now getting around to writing):

• firstly, delayed retirement is simply forcing people into years of living off savings - savings which had been planned in a different era, on a different basis, to the current neoliberal harshness. It's cruel to the point of viciousness, and I can understand why lessons on empathy were needed;
• a simple and obvious way to help older workers help themselves is to allow more hours of work before benefits are reduced. The cretins who keep taking a hardline mathematical view on this
  (a) do not understand human nature (they must have been away for the empathy lessons),
  (b) too often have errors, and
  (c) are failing to allow for beneficial outcomes from things like being confident in one's finances, which is what leads to more spending;
• help cover gaps in workplace insurance for older workers - along the lines of what was done for building inspectors. The price of not doing so is people on the streets, increased social security payments, increased health care payments, and the tight fisted reluctance to spend money that goes with that sort of selfish, uncaring, regressive-thinking society; and
• train people how to set up their own businesses - which, sadly, people are being forced into, against their will.
  Running a business involves far more than just being good at something one is passionate about - it introduces a need for financial and accounting skills, which many people hate, marketing and smarminess, which many people hate, and knowing how to manage unhappy customers, which many people hate, loathe, and find harmful to their mental health & wellbeing.
  However, given the stinginess of the neoliberal world, it's either that or wind up on the streets - there's certainly no planning for people being able to take things easier as they get older.

You can find previous posts of min which cover this topic at:

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/06/intergenerational-inclusivity-and.html; 
• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/09/changing-jobs-careers.html;
• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/05/an-aging-world-and-other-myths.html;
• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/04/life-cycles-age-business-world-and.html.