Friday 22 August 2008

"Children outnumbered by over-60s"

Shock horror: There are now slightly more over-60s than under-18s in the UK.

So what, frankly?

It's the ratio of productive workers-to-everybody else that matters. At present, slightly less than half the total population is a productive worker; the rest are children, students, pensioners, welfare claimants or superfluous public sector workers.

Just sayin', is all.

5 comments:

Bill Quango MP said...

Pretty generous definition of productive Mr W.
Today we are copying the government and just buggering about.

Anonymous said...

MW

As an over-60 in full-time (private sector) work I resent the implication that I'm not a "productive worker". An apology and a generous donation to Age Concern will be (just) sufficient to ameliorate the offence caused.

Mark Wadsworth said...

BQ, by 'productive' I mean 'produce more than they consume over a year', you don't have to be Stakhanov to fall into that category.

U, in that case you are a productive worker rather than a pensioner for the purposes of this post.

Anonymous said...

MW

I'll take that as a gracious apology or, to be accurate, an acceptable clarification. You can forget about the "generous donation".

Anonymous said...

as a 70+ OAP I like to think of all the people that need me because if I wasn't here they wouldn't have their current jobs.
I might break a hip just to make them feel wanted.
Unscientific but why should I care.