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    Most don’t work anymore, but Americans age 70 and older have seen their share of collective wealth surge during the pandemic. As a group, they have accumulated more than $14 trillion in additional net worth since the end 2019, based on Federal Reserve data. Their share of the country’s wealth has jumped to a record 30%, even though they account for 11% of the population.

    The aging population helps explain some of the gains: there are about 2.3 million more people over 70 in the country than in 2019. But one major driver was the surge in home values and stocks during the pandemic, which benefited older generations most likely to own a house — or two — and hold equities or mutual funds.

    Although people who are over 70 are typically retired, a rising portion of that age group is still working. The share of adults age 65 and more in the labor force reached a historic low of 10% in the mid-1980s but has since almost doubled, even after many retired early at the onset of the covid-19 health crisis.

    Older Americans also have been the beneficiaries of good timing with the stock market, despite recessions along the way. Since 2019, those age 70 and older have collectively gained about $5 trillion in equity gains. Close to 38% of the nation’s corporate equities and mutual fund shares were held by people in that age group, the highest share on record in data going back to 1989.

(Alex Tanzi. www.bnnbloomberg.ca, 2023. Adaptado.)

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    lt is true that all children are special, simply because they are children. But most adults are not special, and children end up as adults pretty quickly. Life then can be difficult and even disappointing. The shock of this may account for the emergence of the “snowflake generation” of university students, who are so delicate they can’t handle controversial ideas being put forward in their lectures. The roots of this fragility run deep in modem culture. So, an approach of the world that states: “Life is wonderful, you’re special and, if you are a good boy/girl, life will be amazing forever” is not a message designed to aid bouncing back from failure or confronting catastrophe. Resilience is not about feeding ego – telling your children how wonderful they are – but strengthening it.

LOTT, T. Disponível em: www.theguardian.com. Acesso em: 10 dez. 2017 (adaptado).

 

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    Glory Ames, from the White Earth reservation, is frustrated that despite the presence of several indigenous reservations near Moorhead, local Halloween stores still feature a western section with costumes such as “pow wow princess”.

    Even worse, despite a long-running debate about racism and cultural appropriation, often prompted by backlash against celebrities and politicians for donning offensive costumes, people continue to wear such costumes.

    Last Halloween, Ames spotted a photo on lnstagram of a girl dressed as a Native American with a bullet in her forehead. She immediately reported it to the social media platform and had it removed.

    “They blatantly take certain aspects of our culture, race, religion, and use it for their advantage and ignore the people living it”, said Ames.

LIU, M. C. M. Disponível em: www.washingtonpost.com. Acesso em: 12 maio 2024 (adaptado).

 

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Disponível em: https://pt.foursquare.com. Acesso em: 14 maio 2024.

 

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Remember the sky that you were born under,
know each of the star’s stories.
Remember the moon, know who she is.

 

Remember the sun’s birth at dawn. [...]
Remember your birth, how your mother struggled
to give you form and breath [...]

 

Remember the earth whose skin you are:
red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth
brown earth, we are earth.
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their
tribes, their families, their histories, too [...]

 

Remember you are all people and all people are you.
Remember you are this universe and this universe is you.

 

Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.

HARJO, J. She Had Some Horses. Londres; W. Norton & Company, 1983 (fragmento)

 

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    My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we can go about eradicating some of the misery in this world, then it is not worth the name of philosophy. I think Socrates made a very profound statement when he asserted that philosophy is to teach us proper living. ln this day and age “proper living” means liberation from the urgent problems of poverty, economic necessity and indoctrination, mental oppression.

DAVIS, A. Lectures on Liberation. Washington: Smithsonian Libraries, 1971(adaptado).

 

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