Originally Posted by
Wildflyin
Wow....I can't believe the self-entitled people on this forum. Apparently nobody here ever learned anything from their elders in the industry. Also, I guess the lot of you are never planning on aging and one day being on the other end of this. I didn't know they invented a perpetual youth cream, I guess I should invest. By the way, before any assumptions are made, I am 32 years old, a regional pilot, this is my second career, and I know NOTHING is owed to me because I worked for every opportunity. And if I can still find the drive to keep working when I am 65 then I will. Too many self entitled youth these days, I swear......
I'm just reading here and trying not to take positions. Please explain your position, how is wanting people over 60 to retire an entitlement opinion? I'm trying to understand your position and your leap from wanting a job to a sense of entitlement.
Being under 40 I am of the opinion that the current generation in power has done our generation no favors. Our taxes are going up and our benefits will go down, we'll pay into SS but will not get any money back. I see a lot of pilots who have made over 200K for the last ten years, have a pension with their current company, have SS coming and have a government pension and are still working past 60. I often ask myself why they are doing this and if it were me if I would still be doing it. Not being there I can't say. If you want to work then work I guess, I just don't get the point, why did you work so hard if you aren't going to retire? What is the difference in a sense of entitlement of someone wanting a job and someone who is entitled to work past 60? I've read opinions that if the government had take all their stimulus money of the past 3 years and just paid people in their 60's to retire we'd now be in a much better position with 5% growth and much lower unemployment.