tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-982173487704433191.post4782838838482485606..comments2024-02-23T09:53:02.922+05:30Comments on bagchiblog: The "Silver tsunami"Proloy Bagchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05642253410210767969noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-982173487704433191.post-41945638975200879152010-09-21T19:30:38.081+05:302010-09-21T19:30:38.081+05:30I've fallen a bit behind on reading your blogs...I've fallen a bit behind on reading your blogs Montu. This one was interesting though, and I like the parallels you draw with the west, or more developed world, which does indeed have many of the same problems. There is a glimmer of understanding showing in the removal of enforced retirement in some places -- putting the idea of a minimum age at which you CAN retire, before a maximum age at which you MUST retire. Declining birthrates too have played a big role. Perhaps too, society is permeated by a very heightened sense of wanting more and feeling entitled to it. The older sense of frugality, and having what you need, rather than anything you want, seems to be adding to the problem. Here and there businesses are seeing the value of hiring older workers who want to work, and who are not driven to keep rising up the employment ladder, but that too goes slowly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com