February 27, 2008
An extinction timeline from a business-audience fortune teller. Sadly, retirement is scheduled to disappear before I hit it, but I'm delighted to note that in 6 years my dad should stop getting lost. Microsoft's demise is plotted for roughly 2035.
Also mildly entertaining from the same site: 335 cocktail-party phrases to make it sound like you're paying attention.
I'm excited to see that Uglyness dies just a year or two before cosmetic surgery. I guess first we get rid of all of the ugly people (genetically? surgically?) and then nobody needs cosmetic surgery anymore and it becomes a lost art.
I also enjoyed that the Segway became extinct the year it came out. Furthermore, they must have published this before Lindsay Lohan's recent nude spread for New York Magazine or they would clearly know that she's got at least one more career phase left in her.
Wasn't there a sports guy mailbag where he laid out Rollergirl's fame trajectory? Seems like la Lo is driving that bus now.
Regarding the extinction of retirement, yeah. I think our generation and later really subconciously don't ever expect to "retire" in the traditional sense. Life is too expensive already, and nobody saves.
As an aside, does anyone out there ever get annoyed at how fucking hard this country works?
It's funny about that -- I think most folks have a residual sense of the 'Lazy American', from Japan handing us our asses during the 1970s industrial nadir.
You are of course right: Americans work more weeks, for more hours per week (most among G8, 4th overall), getting by far the most done in those hours (~12% above 2nd place Ireland, and growing), than the other developed nations.
The other structural "advantage" that macroeconomicists recommend but most workers might vote down is our fairly high employment elasticity (our labor market responds promptly to changes in production: we're easy to layoff and rehire, and we'll move around the country if need be).
I constantly lament that standard vacation time in the US is 2 weeks, whereas my friends in Europe tend to get around 5. Ba$tards.
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I just noticed that Kim Jong-Il's disappearance is predicted (2026), but Castro (F, but for that matter R as well)'s is not. I guess he's defied expectations too many times for them to stick their necks out on that one.
posted by ms cegenation at 11:57PM CST on February 27