This is pretty close to a fake news story: Some older Americans are ‘unretiring’ to keep up with cost of living: AARP
In the past six months, 7% of retirees have re-entered the labor force, up from 6% who said the same in summer 2025, according to a new AARP survey.
About 6-7% of retirees unretire in each six month window. This is not news.
The rate of “unretirees” has been nearly the same for decades. Who says that? The US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Unretirement in the 2010s: Prevalence, Determinants, and Outcomes
Basically, this creative writing exercise by Lorie Konesh is bull shit for having omitted the critical historical context and spun this as doomerism.
This is yet another example of media doomerism. At some point, everyone in the mass media will be out of work and replaced with AI – and incredibly, that will be an improvement.
