I am well aware that my experience of not working (in employment) is untypical, and at 74 I am now officially well past 'working age'.
Yet I suspect that if I had been born into either an earlier time (less pressure and speed) or later (more knowledge) I might have managed a formal career. Instead, I had to settle for being a slow paced and modestly published author - now up to 3 books and the website.
I have to accept the argument that a dysfunctional British state cannot sustain a growing number of people on health benefits indefinitely. Indeed, that is likely to apply to most states out of those which provide such benefits at all. The aspect of debt mixed with unstable international politics adds to my suspicion that the days of the nation state are numbered, whatever patriotic people may feel. In any case, I want to ask a question I have not seen asked: Is the increase in 'health' related welfare claims connected to accelerating speed of work?
I don't claim to have an answer. All I know is that I have met others who could do various things, but not fast enough for employment.
All of that leaves a further mystery: Will the whole argument become out of date once the AI revolution takes hold? Just suppose; if tasks requiring speed are all done better by machines?