RVs and the migrant elderly workers of our times
http://www.alternet.org/economy/shocking-picture-what-life-will-look-when-you-cant-afford-retire
Forum Discussion
Slowmover wrote:
I started seeing people living in RVs in the late 1970s. No surprise as first the blue collar economy in this country was destroyed, and that of the white collar is well underway. Outsourcing the work of new doctors and lawyers to the Third World, for example.
The buying power of the minimum wage pays half of what it did in 1968. Real wages in family-level jobs has declined by 50% since the early '70's. That's right, a 50% pay cut for the same work. And we haven't created a family-level job in this country since 1999.
Public sector pensions are next on the block. Promises made that can never be kept. Nor should they.
Get an RV that'll last about forever and find a "skilled" job classification that requires a man on the spot to do the work. Do it long before you "retire" . . that quaint 20th Cen concept.
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Well said Slowmover! To some people SS is their "pension".
