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
67
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.
The tone of the author of this passage______.
选项
A、humorous
B、sympathetic
C、critical
D、objective
答案
C
解析
文章作者的语气是“批评性的”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/UXHO777K
0
研究生英语学位课统考(GET)
相关试题推荐
Bothversionsofthemyth—theWestasaplaceofescapefromsocietyandtheWestasastageonwhichthemoralconflictsconf
TheUnitedNationsdeclaredlastFridaythatSomalia’sfamineisover.Buttheofficialdeclarationmeanslittletothemillions
For150yearsscientistshavetriedtodeterminethesolarconstant,theamountofsolarconstantenergythatreachestheEarth.
Therearetwobasicwaystoseegrowth:oneasaproduct,theotherasaprocess.Peoplehavegenerallyviewedpersonalgrowtha
Anupsurgeofnewresearchsuggestsanimalshaveamuchhigherlevelofbrainpowerthanpreviousthought.Beforedefininganimal
Ahistoryoflongandeffortlesssuccesscanbeadreadfulhandicap,but,ifproperlyhandled,itmaybecomeadrivingforce.Wh
Americansnolongerexpectpublicfigures,whetherinspeechorinwriting,tocommandtheEnglishlanguagewithskillandgift.
Therewassnoweverywhere,sothattheshapeofthingswasdifficultto______.(四川大学2010年试题)
Manyinstructorsbelievethataninformal,relaxedclassroomenvironmentis【C1】______tolearningandinnovation.Itisnotu
WhenChelseacaughta______disease,noneofhisfriendswereallowedtovisithim.
随机试题
退出Excel可用_______方法之一。
A.小便点滴不爽,排出无力,面色咣白,神气怯弱,畏寒肢冷,腰膝疲软,舌淡苔白,脉沉细弱B.小腹坠胀,时欲小便而不得出,精神疲乏,食欲不振,气短声低,舌淡,脉虚弱C.小便淋沥不已,时作时止,遇劳即发,神疲乏力,腰膝酸软,舌质淡,脉细弱D.小腹坠胀,尿有
甾体皂苷元是由__个碳原子组成甲型强心苷元是由__个碳原子组成
下列各项中,属于应付管理模块控制参数设置内容的有()。
此曲运用的写作手法为()。
以下心理现象中,属于学习的是()
求下列极限:(I)w=(II)w=
简述异构数据库的体系结构,与传统的数据库体系结构相比它的异构性主要体现在哪里?具体叙述在应用异构数据库设计方面你从事过的工作和经验。请具体说明你用过的某种异构数据库工具,并阐述它的优缺点。
在需要显示主机的TCP/IP协议的配置时,通常使用命令(59)。
WhatisApple’sattitudetowardsdisputedborders?
最新回复
(
0
)