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Sweet summary and it's hard to disagree with the recommendations.

Ofc, if we were to show leadership, we would find ways of engaging our retirees for longer. I mean c'mon, if US Presidents can work well into their 80s, then why can't many over the age of 65?

Plus we have as Charles shares effectively de-industrialised, so it's not like we're sending our aged down coal mines. And our civil service work from home... fire them and replace with those at pension age, double saving anyone?

Ofc we don't have the vision to even consider let alone discuss this. The deeper malaise is the complete failure to understand human motivation and capability. We have reared a society based in Philip Larkin's Toads Revisited. Only we're completely oblivious or in denial of that, but this is our modern utopia.

The problem ultimately rests with the universally unpopular HR Function, which has the mental acuity of a sea cucumber on smack. It acts, as a recent Telegraph article holds, as a Union, and is, as Steve Jobs once said, completely useless.

It's because of the abject failure of this profession that we have given up on humans and invest our hopes in AI

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