Against retirement

Never Retire

by William Diehl

Before the mid 1950s, there was no "retirement" as we use the term today. A 1950 poll showed most workers aspired to work for as long as possible. Quitting was for the disabled. Life did not offer "twilight years," two decades of uninterrupted leisure courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.
Just since 1960, the percentage of men over 65 still working has dropped by half. And the average retirement age keeps falling. It's down to 62, which gives the average man 18 years to be retired in its current meaning. It is not unusual to see people ending their careers in their mid-fifties.
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Comment:  "Early retirement" is another of the hoax that have been sold to us as social benefit with the caveat that one needs a government to take care that we have enough when we're old. Don't believe it. Early retirment provokes disease and an early death. Remember also that "early retirement" was a trick of the financial industry to make you pay into all kinds of schemes only to learn later on that the little that is still in your "nest" will soon be gone, too. Be determined to work as long as you can, be determined to make it in the workforce at least beyond 70.