Prepared for the reality’: Young Aussies expect to work until their 70s   
Millennial and Gen Zers say they will be working for their entire lives with the cost of living putting the goal of retirement behind them.


News.com.au
May 28, 2025

The Boomers are the last generation of Australians who feel semi-confident about being able to retire, with younger people saying they will work until they drop.   

New data released by People2People shows only 7 per cent of Gen Z and 8 per cent of Millennials believe they will one day be able to retire.

The outlook is so grim that three in five older Aussies even think young Australians will never be able to stop working, something that the majority of younger Australians agree with.   

People2People head of HR solutions Suhini Wijayasinghe says the data should be a wake-up call for Australians.

Aussies workers now believe they will need to work until their late 70s.

“Younger generations aren’t just adjusting expectations, they’re preparing for the reality of working longer,” she said.

Younger Australians are not just expecting to work for longer, they also believe they will be able to work into their 70s.

More than half of the younger Australians asked said they can work until at least 70 while 38 per cent say they can work into their late 70s.

People2People survey data follows the ABS latest seasonable unemployment data which shows the unemployment rate remained at 4.1 per cent despite 89,000 new Aussies finding a job in April.

The addition of 6000 unemployed people meant the labour force grew by 95,000 people and the participation rate rose by 0.3 percentage points to 67.1 per cent.


The participation rate for 35-44 year olds had the largest annual growth, up 1.9 percentage points to 88.3 per cent.

Australian workers are looking to stay employed for longer. 
Despite the growing expectation of having to work for longer, around a third of Australians across all generations are still hoping to be able to exit the workforce by the age of 65.

But keeping a job for these young Australians could prove problematic.

According to the survey data nine in 10 Australians believe employers rarely or never higher people near or past retirement with a third saying Australians over 65 have virtually no chance of getting a job.

“We have an ageing population and a declining birthrate,” Ms Wijayasinghe said.

“Inaction on age inclusion isn’t just unfair, it’s economically unsustainable. Creating age-inclusive workplaces is no longer optional. It’s a strategic imperative.

“As the workforce evolves, so must employer mindsets.

“Ending ageism isn’t just about ticking boxes, it’s about fostering inclusive cultures where employees of all ages can thrive, contribute, and feel genuinely valued.”

Expecting people to work until they are 70 years old, is a ridiculous idea.  Let them have their retirement, and open more doors for young people.    

Why retire?

So you have more time to take ?
To feel pleasure and not contribute?

Mother nature has no love for retirees.

Ever seen a big tree retire or an old lion retire?

Mother nature just recycles you  once you retire.
And rightly so.


If you are old and sharp like confuscuis or lao tzu she might let you hang around.

But if you are sloppy and useless and spend you days between bed pans, taking you insulin and going to the doctor or the pokies then nature is going to get rid of you.

When you fight Mother nature which the whole West does, you lose but only every time.

Anti. Everything

Anti biotics, anti depressants, anti parasitic, anti hypertensive, anti inflammatory, anti aging, anti histamines.

You are divorced from reality white knight


Here on this planet,  contribute or piss off to another planet that likes takers and leaders 

The way things are going - this country will end up third World, and many in the newer generations will not be able to retire - the old ladies will sweep the streets as in Russia or walk miles to gather firewood sticks daily, the old men will work the head man's rice paddies or similar for a few drachmae ...

We REAL people need to take back this country - starting with our fatally flawed electoral system, which permits a party with a lower vote than the Nazis in 1932 to romp in with a vast majority of seats.

Anyone who can't see the clear dangers of that is a total fool.  65.5% of Australian voters said NO to New Labor.

Note:-  Albo's semi-hidden Judeophobia/Islamophilia is showing right now - some of the kids at school who WOG-named him and stole his lunch money must have had Jewish names... or maybe he buys into that old dinosaur that the world is run by some Jewish international money conspiracy or something... and as a Heroic Warrior and Defender Of The Left he is forced to bring them down to ruin to save HIS real world ...... The Madness.... the Madness ..... I'm positive a psychiatrist would make a fortune out of him ...

Help, we want our government funded pension.   

It's so good to be retired.
After 2 hours per day for 3 days -
I am nearly finished cleaning all the tiles in my kitchen with
sugar soap and metho and then White King and replacing the
Silicone between the tiles and the benchtop.
It's starting to look like a million bucks.

You don't have the time when you're working for such jobs.
Who wants to work until they die at their desk? - not me.

Bobby. wrote on May 29^th, 2025 at 5:32pm:

Aristotle
No one tries to live well for the sake of some further goal; rather, living well is the highest end, and all subordinate goals—health, wealth, and other such resources—are sought because they promote well-being, not because they are what well-being consists in. But unless we can determine which good or goods happiness consists in, it is of little use to acknowledge that it is the highest end. To resolve this issue, Aristotle asks what the ergon (“function”, “task”, “work”) of a human being is, and argues that it consists in activity of the rational part of the soul in accordance with virtue.


Aristotle discusses three different lifestyles all traditionally thought to be happy: the life of pleasure, the political life, and the virtuous life. He rejects the identification of happiness with the life of pleasure because such a life is ‘slavish’ and ‘suitable [only] for cattle’. Neither can happiness be equated with honour – usually considered the goal of political life – because that depends more on those who honour than on the one honoured. Nor can happiness simply be equated with the possession of virtue, since someone who was asleep could possess virtue but not exercise it, or they could suffer terrible misfortunes despite their virtue, and no one would call such a person happy. Aristotle therefore concludes that those traditional conceptions of the good life are each lacking in certain respects.


Aristotle concludes that the contemplative life is superior to the political life and satisfies the requirements for happiness to the highest degree.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/151/Aristotles_Guide_To_Living_Well

Gnads wrote on May 29^th, 2025 at 6:06pm:

Mozart died at age 35. Beethoven, 57. Schubert, 32.

We each live our own lives and die our own deaths - except nowadays our lives and deaths are so institutionalised that often we can't die our own deaths.




God, give us each our own death,
the dying that proceeds
from each of our lives:

the way we loved,
the meanings we made,
our need.

Rilke