It's interesting to note that we are now at the beginning of the "boomer" retirement age.
If we accept that the "boomer years" are framed by the years of 1947 to 1959, then the first wave of retiring boomers is with us.
That bulging population now known as "the boomer generation" created something new in each segment of time they inhabited. Now, it's retirement time...or not.
The boomers have been characterized as trailblazers, as group oriented, as creative recasters of accepted norms, as people with a social conscience...hmmm...now they're retiring, and the idea of retiring to societal non-being isn't in the cards!
There are more of them than Gen-Y or Gen-X. The last third of a lifestyle is about to be reworked, as the boomers bulge through.
Interesting that this influence will be felt at the same time as technology has erased time and has delivered power to the consumer (a technology created by boomers, I might add).
Do we envision community homes, separate living/sleeping but communal cooking/dining? Extended family supplanting the commune group?
Hmmm...an interesting ride ahead, I'd say. Boomers like things asap, so the new retirement will happen in an eyelid's blink.
Me? I'm off to dust off those early Bob Dylan hymns to shift...and yes, they're on vinyl!
And your thoughts are? Always welcome!
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