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After watching my formerly very sharp grandparents retire from very active and stimulating jobs (nursing, and investing respectively) decline hard I've soured t

• WorldMaker 3y ago
  Counter-anecdote: my grandfather retired "early" (in today's view) at 55 and dementia wasn't a major problem until his 80s. He had several great decades of retirement. (Partly because he had several pensions and good social security.) If anything, "standard retirement" of people only allowed to retire at 65 or 70 seems to intentionally pushing up against the limits of human stamina and decline hitting hard soon after retirement almost an intentional "feature" of the current standard because society can spend less on pensions and social security if we just require everyone to work until they break. Anecdotally feels to me like more evidence we should roll back the decadal encroach of retirement age into way too late in life to enjoy it and return to better pensions and social services.