His talk on retirement gave me some thoughts. This guy and a huge amount of people get caught up on the post-war and boomer concept of retirement. Retirement wasn't a thing anywhere close to the same way for most of the history of the world. You worked until you couldn't anymore, then you died.
Are you suggesting that your ideal is we return to that kind of world where when a person could not work anymore, they just died?
I mean that's the harshest way to make it sound, but in a way yes. What I was more getting at is the way life expectancy has changed there's a longer gap between when someone expects to not work and when they expect to die.
What I was really getting at is I don't think the system works or is realistic. This notion of retirement is seen as an entitlement when it's really not. I think you'll see in the next ten years it really become a talking point as we're getting to the start of an age group where corporate pension wasn't a thing and all these people did nothing otherwise, but still expect to flip a switch and retire.
Are you suggesting that your ideal is we return to that kind of world where when a person could not work anymore, they just died?
I mean that's the harshest way to make it sound, but in a way yes. What I was more getting at is the way life expectancy has changed there's a longer gap between when someone expects to not work and when they expect to die.
What I was really getting at is I don't think the system works or is realistic. This notion of retirement is seen as an entitlement when it's really not. I think you'll see in the next ten years it really become a talking point as we're getting to the start of an age group where corporate pension wasn't a thing and all these people did nothing otherwise, but still expect to flip a switch and retire.