This and That make me believe that we are up the proverbial creek and the paddle has been sold off.
It is a standing joke, and it has been since I had circa 1175 working days to go, that I have a "count down to retirement". Some may say that I am wishing my life away. Others may say that I am looking forward to a real life.
I remember when I was at school from the mid fifties to the late sixties being told that, in the future, computers were going to take the drudgery out of working life and that we were all going to have more time for leisure.
50 years later, when we can claim to have found "Higgs boson", the discovery of a new particle, and planets like ours on the edge of our galaxy, we are being told on the one hand that we will have to work longer and on the other hand that the young cannot find employment.
People will be working till they drop; others will be on stand-by to take over before the 'screen saver' on the computer kicks in.
I really think that we have lost the plot.
Why?
To make more money for greedy people. People who have stripped pension funds during the good times, only to be caught out when the going got tough.
As we wait for Christmas Day, how many are so tied up in what they left behind in work today, that they will miss the real message of that day. Checking emails to make sure that they stay ahead of a problem created by someone else.
Happy Christmas! (?)
(BTW -118 working days and counting)
