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Do the work because it's enjoyable. If it's no longer enjoyable, enjoy your wealth while you have it, and retire.

• robertlagrant 4y ago
  This is what I mean. It's likely dangerous to disincentivise so many people in their most expert years from working.
  • IntrepidWorm 4y ago
    Perhaps - I would think in many cases, an equilibrium would be reached. Comparatively few people in any industry are wholly irreplaceable. Still, should something like this just pop into law tomorrow, one could expect a large group of experienced specialists at the top of a wide array of fields to decide to retire, to disasterous effect. Given time to settle in though, I'd wager it likely that talent would filter up to replace any losses at an equivalent rate. Ultimately, people as a whole like to work. They dislike working under poor conditions or doing jobs that don't feel rewarding. A law like this would generate a lot of change, but I just don't see that change being disasterous given sufficient adjustment time.
    • robertlagrant 4y ago
      Talent won't filter up. You can't replace doctors with 40 years' experience with doctors with 30 years' experience (and keep going - who do you replace them with?) without losing a huge amount of value.
  • int_19h 4y ago
    Our goal as a society should be to maximize happiness, not maximize the number of people who are working.