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> It's not clear that retirement is particularly healthy, longevity wise. You're essentially saying that not working may not be healthy. That's one of the stra
by BossingAround 5y ago
> It's not clear that retirement is particularly healthy, longevity wise.
You're essentially saying that not working may not be healthy. That's one of the strangest things I've read today.
You may not view it as "not particularly healthy" because of the frame of reference, not because of "a fact" that not working is unhealthy.
If people "retired" at the age of 25, could you reasonably argue that we'd have an unhealthy population?
- Daishiman 5y ago> You're essentially saying that not working may not be healthy. That's one of the strangest things I've read today. But it is true. An internal study at a megacorp I worked at showed that people who didn't retire ended up living longer. It makes a ton of sense. Intellectual work keeps your mind stimulated and your body moving. Inaction ends up killing old people.
- krapp 5y agoIf anything that proves inactivity is unhealthy, not a life without work. Not all activity has to be done in the service of providing value to a corporation. You can retire and take up fishing or rock climbing, play chess, write a book. This idea that we've been conditioned to, that the only valid life is the life we trade for money, is insidious.
- BossingAround 5y ago> Intellectual work keeps your mind stimulated and your body moving. Inaction ends up killing old people. Nobody argues with this. But thinking that paid work is the only source of mind stimulation and body movement is just silly.