Best-selling author and business professor Moro Jian tackles this way of thinking in his new book The Perennials. We need to find ways for companies not to discriminate against people in their 50s, 60s and 70s, he says. A separate problem is that we've made some promises to people that they could be able to collect a public pension if they worked a number of years. Now that we're living longer, that is putting a lot of financial pressure on social security schemes around the world.
Freight company Yellow stopped operations and a bankruptcy is expected as the next move.
(00:21) Bill Barker and Deidre Woollard discuss: - Why Yellow shut down and what place it occupied in the world of trucking. - SoFi’s strong quarter and what it needs to become profitable. - Tupperware and the danger of meme stocks.
(19:39) Mauro Guillén, author of “The Perennials”, makes the case for abandoning traditional generational views of society, career development, and retirement.
Companies discussed: YELL, SOFI, TUP, ODFL, FDX, XPO Host: Deidre Woollard Guests: Bill Barker, Mauro Guillén Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineers: Dan Boyd, Kyle Carruthers
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