alt Hacker NewsExcuse me, but can you please explain this whole concept of 'retirement'?
It is some point where you just shut down your brain and feed yourself to the fishes?
Not being an US person I'm struggling with this. How? Unless one loses congnitive capability due to organic brain damage how is this even possible?
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anamexis • yesterday at 8:54 PM
Retirement is the withdrawal from active working life, i.e. having a job. It is not a US concept.
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lm28469 • yesterday at 11:30 PM
It's the part where you stop being a wage slave and can enjoy some freedom, I know, such an alien concept
If you work most jobs, whether cognitive or manual labor, after some point you can't do them anymore, due to physical and cognitive decline, medical issues, and the plain fact that you can do that shit as a hobby if you really like it, but you shouldn't need to go to some fucking office or greet people in your local Walmart in your late 60s and 70s just to survive.
We call this stopping of work at that point retirement.
How about that?