The Place of Retiredmen in Capitalist Society

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I was wondering, after watching a movie called Baghban, what is the place of Parents in a Capitalist Society?

For example, capitalist society thrives on buying and selling and your worth depends on your buying power. Post the Industrial Revolution in the British Empire the power went from the landholding class of Feudals to the Industrialist giants.

However, where countryside Feudal societies depended on close connections between whom you trust, ie family and friends, capitalist urban societies dont. They depend on service, buying and selling.

So it is harder to live in modern urban societies and get ahead if you are bogged down by family or friends. Essentially the idea of a “business power lunch” is to increase solidarity and comeraderie between two parties and once when it was done between family and friends, today it is done between perfect strangers who each have assets the other guy wants and is done to make money.

So please tell me the trend of older people both in Western Societies where we live and back home: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, etc.

Have they opened up old peoples homes in these nations like they have in America? Do older people actually invest in their futures? What?

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Re: The Place of Retiredmen in Capitalist Society

By the way the movie Baghban is way overdramatic and melodramatic too. It shows one side of the story only.

Guru can show the other side, the more positive side of the story.

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Do older people actually invest in their futures? What?

That is an interesting question ... For werstern societies. From a materialistic perspective they should, and common sense dictates that they do it. Because if a child is supposed to live on his/her own after a certain age then parents are quite free to invest in their future.

So, I guess endling up in old homes is not realy a major problem but living alone and lonelyness is.

Baghban is good movie , somewhat futuristic and exagerated. Senior people have loads of experience so they mostly take calculated risks and their vision is quite broad. but the movie shows otherwise.

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