首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
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
admin
2019-10-13
49
问题
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.
According to the first two paragraphs, retirement_____.
选项
A、is an easy decision to make
B、is difficult for many people
C、means relaxation to the aged
D、is absolutely out of date
答案
B
解析
文章第一段介绍的是理想中的退休生活:不再操心办公室的事,不再担心上下班的漫长旅途,活动不再受限制,开始享受生活了。但第二段笔锋一转,给人泼了冷水:这都是梦想,除非你有钱。其含义是退休不等于美好生活的开始。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/PXHO777K
0
研究生英语学位课统考(GET)
相关试题推荐
Americansnolongerexpectpublicfigures,whetherinspeechorinwriting,tocommandtheEnglishlanguagewithskillandgift.
"Ihavegreatconfidencethatbytheendofthedecadewe’llknowinvastdetailhowcancercellsarise,"saysmicrobiologistRo
WhenIdecidedtoquitmyfulltimeemploymentitneveroccurredtomethatImightbecomeapartofanewinternationaltrend.
Theprogrammeaimstomakethecountry______infoodandtocutenergyimports.
Itwilltakeustwentyminutestogettotherailwaystation,______trafficdelays.
Themostexcitingkindofeducationisalsothemostpersonal.Nothingcan【C1】______thejoyofdiscoveringforyourselfsomethin
Themostexcitingkindofeducationisalsothemostpersonal.Nothingcan【C1】______thejoyofdiscoveringforyourselfsomethin
Analystshavehadtheirgoathumor,andIhavereadsomeofthisinterpretativeliterature,butwithoutbeinggreatlyinstructe
Thereisaheateddiscussioninthenewspaperontheissueofurbanization.Writeacompositiontoclarifyyourownpointofvie
A、$3.78.B、$4.25.C、$3.87.D、$4.15.C女士说:看看牛肉的价格。每磅4.25美元。你能相信吗?去年夏天,只有3.87美元。男士说:什么价格都涨得快,不只是食品。我的电费1个月增加了15%还要多。
随机试题
函数y=χ-In(1+χ2)的极值是()。
求由方程2x2+y2+z2+2xy—2x一2y一4z+4=0确定的隐函数的全微分.
某肝癌患者病情已到晚期,处于极度痛苦之中,自认为是肝硬化,寄希望于治疗,病情进展和疼痛发作时,多次要求医生给以明确说法和治疗措施。此时,医生最佳的伦理选择应该是
体内CO2分压最高的部位是
企业的“生产成本”科目在期末的时候可以有余额。()
纳税人应当自契税纳税义务发生之日起()日内,向土地、房屋所在地的税收征收机关办理纳税申报。
阅读下面的文字。完成下列问题。残秋的下弦月
甲、乙公司约定,由丙公司每月代乙公司向甲公司偿还债务50万元,期限2年。丙公司履行5个月后,以自己并不对甲公司负有债务为由拒绝继续履行。甲公司遂向法院起诉,要求乙公司、丙公司承担违约责任。人民法院应()。
除非能保证4个小时的睡眠,否则大脑将不能得到很好的休息;除非大脑得到很好的休息,否则第二天大部分人都会感到精神疲劳。如果上述断定为真,以下哪项也一定是真的?
A、Inarailroadstation.B、Inabusstation.C、Inarestaurant.D、Inahotel.D关键在于听懂“checkout”一词。它的意思是“向旅馆结帐退房”。如果没有听懂,根据第二个人的
最新回复
(
0
)