Fifty, and sixty year old&#x27;s are not that old. I thought 50 was ancient in my twenties, but it comes quick.  As to actuarial tables, we have not made that much progress in 50 years.  I believe we added seven years to life expectancy, but that sounds high?<p>I do see guys my age in menial jobs, and I believe it&#x27;s the economy.  Companies just fired people.  They fired them for various reasons, but technology made it possible.  It&#x27;s result of decling availability of good unions, or any unions--hence no real retirement.  A changing workplace.  Less jobs.<p>If anyone should be worried about their economic viability, I believe, young tech workers are high on the list.
No unions.  Training&#x2F;work that can be farmed out.  Training that can be learned over the Internet--well.  I don&#x27;t want to be an alarmist, but I know too many former Programmers.  Too many unemployed&#x2F;close to homeless Programmers from the 80&#x27;s and 90&#x27;s?<p>I see a trend towards doing well with less employees, and no one cares as long as they get what they want.   What&#x27;s App has a handful of employees?  Twitter will never have the amount of employees they had a week ago, even if they do really take off.   We are making programming&#x2F;Web developement easier daily.  I&#x27;m happy with DRY.  I like Bootstrap.   What will it be like in another ten years?<p>I don&#x27;t have an answer, but I don&#x27;t forsee a bunch of 50-60 year old employees bagging groceries.  I just see the more Homeless.  I believe it will get so bad, the rich won&#x27;t be able to fully enjoy their wealth, unless they beef up entitlement programs?  After all, driving  your sport&#x27;s  car past homeless can&#x27;t be fun, and then you have to think about where you can park it?  It&#x27;s kind of like eating a fancy dinner, while the person across the table is starving?  And let&#x27;s not turn into Mexico, where if you have some wealth, you can&#x27;t leave the house unless you have body guards.<p>Got off track, but the future does not look rosey.  I do think we need to resind some of these treaties that make opening up shop overseas so easy, or at least raise tariffs?  
I know it&#x27;s selfish, but the way we are moving is scary.