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Why do these old people constantly feel the need to work? I'm trying to retire the moment I can and enjoy the rest of my life.
Power. The moment they retire they give up the ability to control people's lives.
DING DING DING
WE HAVE A WINNER FOLKS
You ever heard the phrase "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life"?
Well some people love being abusive pieces of shit.
Probably not as much as I love this comment though.
probably because they really dont work as hard as you
Nah I barely work hard. I'm not equating my life to work. There's too many other things to enjoy for that.
Then create a culture that isn’t reliant on working to make money just for basic necessities.
It should be possible considering we have some money hoarders hoarding enough that we shouldn’t have people going hungry and enough houses that people shouldn’t be homeless.
Yet we do.
Tax the rich.
Part of it is because you still need a gig to keep the retirement funds rolling. You don't want to live it out on pea soup and bread.
Part of it is because after a certain point every bit of your body, from your bones to your brains, is only available on a Use It or Lose It basis with no warranty for service blackouts.
And part of it is because, and l guess this is due to the collapse of the extended-family model, lots of people don't have anyone or thing to go home to; they're divorced or widowed, kids have moved out, and their social network has literally died out.
Yup. A lot of people here don’t get that when you retire the funds are finite. And you could still live another 20 yrs, even up to 35 more years but completely alone and with no income. If you have someone telling you to quit as you round up to 65 when you have another good 20 yrs of cognizance to pull income, you won’t go quietly.
And you shouldn’t.
Retirement right now is still expecting you’re going to pay your way or live worse than prison conditions. Even worse if you’re a person with disabilities or early onset issues, diabetes along with other things from a lifestyle habit of consumerism pushed on all of us by capitalists that don’t give a shit what happens to you down the line.
it’s not to say someone shouldn’t retire eventually when they can no longer work. It’s to say that assuming you’re as incompetent at 60 as if you’re 96 is just plain refusal to recognize the human condition and it’s ageism. The article is about a 96 yr old. That’s past 30 yrs retirement age. It’s only in her recent years this is happening so the fact she made it to 90 cognizant is actually very impressive either way. So just saying yeah, she should retire now. But blaming her for not retiring at 65 when she’s 30+ past that age is a misnomer argument at this stage. If anything we should all be so lucky to make it past 70 with our cognitive abilities with the current American diet slowly killing our organ function.
I quit at 35 and am now 58. My only regret was being too afraid to do it earlier.
How ? I long ago was able to to differentiate needs from wants.
I do own my own small house. Each year I have excess funds, some is rolled over and reinvested, some is donated to charity, because the small investments I do have earn way more then my needs.
I'd consider euthanasia if I had to return to work because of some unforseen reason, after deaades of freedom Arbeit macht frei is prison.
Is none of it wanting to keep their boomer views relevant?
Why do they not want to ? Ego and or indoctrination mainly. (Work itself has worth for being work, power over others, you're an attention whore and fear obscurity, or some combination ). There's also a stigma with being retired.
I retired at 35 and am now 58. My only regret was not stopping earlier.