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I think it's pretty fucking easy. If you're nearly 80 years old you shouldn't be running for reelection. That's not ageist, that's just God damn reality.
How about 60?
I want to work hard now, and retire someday.
I don't want to be working in my 80's. I don't want to be working in my 70's.
I want my representatives to share and promote these values.
Anyone over the age of 65 who is still actively seeking office clearly does not share these values and is unqualified to continue to hold office.
So why not 60?
Social security deems retirement age at 65.
Let’s go with that .
air traffic controllers must retire at 56...
they already increased it to 68.
Why not lower that age too?
Mostly because that’s another fight. I picked SS’s retirement age mostly because it’s already established as a reasonable age- this otherwise basically arbitrary age is already set so it simplifies the convo, that’s all.
Everything is always a fight. You’ll be lucky if the age isn’t boosted to 70 or 75 by the time you retire. It’s already happening as the whole world slides right. Even if you don’t want to fight, other more powerful groups are fighting against you with everything they have.
So? What’s your point?
I fail to see how any of that is relevant to an upper age limits in congress.
Sorry, that’s an entirely separate conversation.
Again, the only reason I put it there is because it’s already an accepted age for retirement. That’s it. Which simplifies things by preempting the whole debate about where to put it.
Because that debate derails the conversation- every damn time. Currently, in point of fact… by you.
Not if you conceded that 60 would be better than 65
Because then the billionaires would generate less money.
https://lemmy.world/post/35331657/19178271