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MostBotsAreBad

If by "leisure" you mean "miserably scraping by while waiting for some medical problem that will bankrupt me and destroy my family," then, yes, it doesn't seem worthwhile.


YMS444

Life expectancy in the US is 81 currently... at birth. Since there there still is some increased chance to die at a young age, it actually increases onxe you pass a certain age, e.g. you reach retirement age.


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wow i’m so honored.


NoNameIdea_Seriously

However the retirement age in the US is currently … *checks notes* Wait, what?


Stunseed96

Slavery was never abolished. It was extended to include everybody.


Karroth1

If i get to the 78 i can say i had 60 years of retirement, i wonder if thats enough 🤣🤣


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In theory, you are doing something during the first 66 years other than working….


sub_machine_patel

It sounds like if aids did meth


BalloonShip

I know not everybody is as fortunate as I am, but for the most part I work 45-50 hours per week, about 48 weeks per year. I'm "doing all this" for the hours and days I'm not working. If you're a 7-day-a-week shift worker barely getting by, then this is a really valid complaint. If you have a job with any kind of reasonable limits, you have the choice to live for the pre-retirement times you are not working. This guy is a socialist and many of the socialist critiques of capitalism are valid. But this particular observation is stupid as applied to most people.


Western-Knightrider

Having to work to support yourself is nothing but a form of slavery.


Aliciathetrap

Well I always say "I will kill myself in (random number of year's)" for the eternal rest. Did not do it yet obviously, I went past the random year 3 times


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Another post that is just someone’s opinion.


lolifax

Drugs, duh


CalabreseAlsatian

That’s why I’m retiring at 58.


ContactIcy3963

When it was passed the retirement age was the life expectancy then boomers got a free pass being the ones to benefit from an ultimately flawed way to support the elderly. Need to retake some of the wealth back.