The standard head-in-the-sand HN response to pointing out the disastrous LPR is &quot;old people are retiring&quot;.<p>They don&#x27;t bother looking into the reality that retirements are being delayed and most underemployment or nonparticipation is within the prime working age demographic.<p>Point this out, and the response is downvoting. HN emphatically does <i>not</i> want to accept the possibility that the economy is anything but amazing, for reasons I cannot understand.