alt Hacker NewsSure enjoy your retirement. But for me it's annoying some late 50s+ people telling what you just did. Think about people who are in their 20s or 30s - they are not even halfway through their path to retirement and some maybe even still paying out student debt.
> Stop whining and start doing stuff you love.
You have to understand that it's hard to do stuff that you love when you have to feed your family and pay mortgage or rent. Not everyone can be or want to be entrepreneur.
You are just talking from perspective of someone who already paid all debts raised all kids and now enjoying or soon will be enjoying retirement - at least meaning you can retire even if maybe don't want to.
Retired? I'm not retired and likely won't be for another 8 years.
> But for me it's annoying some late 50s+ people telling what you just did.
The author of TFA is at least 50!
> You are just talking from perspective of someone who already paid all debts raised all kids
That part is true. But that was more or less true when I was 50, too.
Finally, the article wasn't about the shitty economic world that we've created for so many people, it was about how programming has changed. Those two are inter-related but they are not the same.