RE: LeoThread 2025-03-24 02:23
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The average retirement age is 67, yet the typical lifespan is just 76. Working for nearly 50 years to enjoy only 9 years of freedom in later life appears to be a design flaw.
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A shift in this long-held mindset is essential as soon as possible.
Retirement was actually introduced quite recently (late 19th century), so in the history of humanity, it's a very new concept. Its implementation was a design of our expanding lifespan, rather than its exclusion being a design to hold us back.
It's a carrot on a stick 😔
In a sense, it is - but achievable if we create a strategy and stick to it for a long time. Most people don't educate themselves enough to get to that point, or otherwise lack the discipline.
It’s a fair observation. Retirement as we know it was quickly adapted to longer lifespans, but that doesn’t mean it's an all‑inclusive solution. Should we reimagine these later life years?
What I would like is, for retirement we need to take account what kind of labor one has done. The 9 years of retirement for nurse, not the same as for someone who worked in an office.