Shock horror: There are now slightly more over-60s than under-18s in the UK.
So what, frankly?
It's the ratio of productive workers-to-everybody else that matters. At present, slightly less than half the total population is a productive worker; the rest are children, students, pensioners, welfare claimants or superfluous public sector workers.
Just sayin', is all.
Friday, 22 August 2008
"Children outnumbered by over-60s"
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5 comments:
Pretty generous definition of productive Mr W.
Today we are copying the government and just buggering about.
MW
As an over-60 in full-time (private sector) work I resent the implication that I'm not a "productive worker". An apology and a generous donation to Age Concern will be (just) sufficient to ameliorate the offence caused.
BQ, by 'productive' I mean 'produce more than they consume over a year', you don't have to be Stakhanov to fall into that category.
U, in that case you are a productive worker rather than a pensioner for the purposes of this post.
MW
I'll take that as a gracious apology or, to be accurate, an acceptable clarification. You can forget about the "generous donation".
as a 70+ OAP I like to think of all the people that need me because if I wasn't here they wouldn't have their current jobs.
I might break a hip just to make them feel wanted.
Unscientific but why should I care.
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