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It’s easy to imagine the scenario. After spending most of our adult life in paid employment, the golden day arrives. Suddenly we
It’s easy to imagine the scenario. After spending most of our adult life in paid employment, the golden day arrives. Suddenly we
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2019-10-13
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It’s easy to imagine the scenario. After spending most of our adult life in paid employment, the golden day arrives. Suddenly we’re relieved of office email and that long commute. Finally we can enjoy our remaining time pursuing those interests we never had time for. Above all, time to relax.
Sadly, this probably won’t be your future unless you’re independently wealthy.
The real question is no longer when we will retire but whether we will retire, with the prospect of working until you drop likely to become the norm. Due to an ageing population, longer life expectancy and a state pension scheme that can’t keep up, retirement might soon be a thing of the past. Now we have entered an endless age of austerity or tightened economy. There’ll be no government help in your old age. Nor will your employer’s pension plan provide enough to make ends meet. You are on your own.
The important thing is that none of this is as "inevitable" as the politicians would have us think. Many societies have an ageing population, but not all of them are willing to force a weak 75-year-old back into a cut-throat service economy. That’s an utterly mad behavior in the UK.
We can trace the untimely death of retirement to a number of assumptions about how society ought to be organized. At no other time has the welfare state been so hated by the governing elite. Social care. Unemployment assistance. Health. Libraries. Municipal parks. Anything relating to what used to be called "the public good" is attacked at the roots. Austerity redefines these things as financial liabilities or deficits rather than shared investments in common decency.
It is only a matter of time before pensions are put on the chopping block.
It’s not that there isn’t enough money to fund proper healthcare or pensions. It’s just that the cash is being directed elsewhere, most notably to the private sector in the form of massive corporate subsidies, while public utilities are getting close to collapse.
And let’s not forget the tax revenues that aren’t being collected when economic policy is geared towards socialism for the rich and the strictest market discipline for everyone else. In 2015 Google paid 47m euro tax in Ireland on 22bn euro sales revenue. That’s a 0.21% tax rate. It means the average wage — earner unfairly bears the burden of society. No wonder a happy retirement is starting to look like an impossible indulgence.
Many people will have a hard time after retirement because of______.
选项
A、too small pensions that are given to the retired
B、the government’s overinvestment in public utilities
C、the ordinary people’s attack of the public good
D、the government’s attempt to build a welfare state
答案
A
解析
第五段说明养老金减少的原因。政府官员不再重视福利社会,与老年人相关的公共设施受到冷落,紧缩的经济妨碍了对公共项目的投资,其后果是牺牲了老年人的福利待遇。
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