Dian Feinstein dead at 90.
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Boomers hanging on to their jobs until they die in office instead of retiring at a reasonable age so other people can move up the ladder is a big problem.
My old man's employer kept asking him to delay his retirement because they didn't have enough competent replacements.
Several older relatives retired, only to have their job keep contacting them to do contracts ( with good pay, so two said yes to several contracts, essentially working a nearly full-time job 6+ months a year ).
Several crafts, blue-collar and white-collar jobs didn't form nealy enough apprentices.
The pool of potentially-competent young adults keeps shrinking from White infertility, while the total, service-demanding population, keeps increasing with third-world mass migration and their higher fertility.
Shit will fail more and more often all over the place in critical infrastructure.
The previous ''old boomers won't retire to let their kids have good jobs'' became ''please don't retire, Shanika and Tyrone diversity-hire will crash and burn the whole thing without you doing their job''.
...Then there is also the problem of specialized companies that refuse to do formation and demand several years of experience, while crying they have nobody, so we need to import and provide for 10 000 third-worlders for them to find one to fill one job.
... Then the consequence of keeping people, no matter how dumb, in school untill 22+ with huge debts, then complain nobody want to do low-qualification jobs for low pay. And refuse to raise pay. And again demand we import and provide for 10 000 third-worlders to find the 100 gems among willing and capable to do those low qualification jobs honestly.
So now riddle me this, how much extra service and infrastructure employees we don't have will be required to provide for all those third-worlders..? Mass migration CAUSE job market problems. They CAUSE overflowing hospitals. They CAUSE proverty.
Well a big part of the problem in boomers not retiring is also that it discouraged innovation. It's worse in certain industries, companies, and locations, but between credentialism and experience mattering so much you have many people who are behind industry trends setting policy and criteria. Hence why you have so many middle managers and HR people in their 30s and 40s who cannot use a computer, because the executives also struggle with computers and don't see their value.
Zoomers don't know how to use computers either. Computers add very little efficiency overall, especially as they age. They are also inflexible. Pointless innovation is part of the problem.
That's actually a huge problem in Japan, and has been for years. It's getting worse in the US because of smartphones and fewer younger people growing up with computers. Someone here relayed an anecdote the other day about a new grad not knowing how the shift key on a keyboard works.
It's got nothing to do with Boomers and everything with the fact that humans in general are not keen on relinquishing power.
Your point is correct. She's also a member of the Silent Generation and not a Boomer.
She's literally older than boomers.