Am I ready to die? Man can be ready ?
The book that I read it recently is a research made about life expectancy. Although the writers were trying to show us the good parts of a long life at the end nothing looks good at the horizon.
Life expectency is increasing by one percent every two year. A child born today will live 100 years in average.
Politicians never took into consideration this issue seriously ignoring to see the various aspects of the retirements system and geriology. No any forsighted country exist in the world. Even people born during “baby boom” period was not expecting to live so long. My wife born in 1952, worked for 21 year in a bank and got her retirment at the age of 41. Now has 66 and it has been taken his pension since 27 years already.
Pesismists are thinking that safe food obtaintion , new born babies loss reached to an end. There is nothing to improve . On the contrary a life with less activity has brought us the obezity issue along with many related diseases. Hence the life expectancy has reached to its highest level.
By no means if you live more you need more money.The question is how much you have to save monthly to have at least the fifty percent in your retirement. This will led you to another question: until what age you will have to work. The book is pretending that we have to save %17 monthly and work until the age of eightly.
The technology is changing so fast that what we learn at the universities is becoming obsolete in few decades. Hence lifelong learning will be a must.
When I look around myself nearly all my friends and relatives over fifty are already retired. The reality is that there is no job for eldery people who have old fashion education and knowledge.
I have admiration to three of my friends over 60’s now.
One of them CG is chemichal engineer, a schoolmate of mine, has learned the new REACH Hazardous chemicals trade new legislation and is now teaching to students at many universities.
Another friend of mine BY has learned the new work safety legislation and got his license after a serious exam .
AP who is a turtist guide noticing that arriving Brazilian tourist increase have made a big effort to learn portuguese…
This book is a must to read . You will be planning your life accordingly.
Avram Aji
30 July 2018
