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Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations.

About 41% of Gen Z and 44% of millennials — those who are currently between 27 and 42 years old — are significantly more likely to want to do some form of paid work during retirement.

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This increasing preference for a lifelong income, could perhaps make the act of “retiring” obsolete.

Although younger workers don’t intend to stop working, there is still an effort to beef up their retirement savings.

It's ok! Don't ever retire! Just work until you die, preferably not at work, where we'd have to deal with the removal of your corpse.

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[-] TwoGems@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
[-] JDoos@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

{SIGHS} Don't eat the rich. That's how you get easily communicable diseases. Instead you should compost them and use them to grow a nice, non edible garden. Preferably one that's good at sequestering carbon!

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Prion diseases are pretty terrifying.

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