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You've got to be kidding. Boomers were fired or laid off all the time. Unemployment rates have been much higher during some years when Boomers were a major part of the labor force, hitting over 10% in 1982.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE

Current money market rates are above 4%. So I guess today is a really excellent day!




There's a difference between "it happens regularly" and "no one is safe". We're arguably structured like a gig economy so unemployment rates won't represent the differece on a chart

You should bring a chart on the average tenure at a single company.




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