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Embracing Sabbaticals, Sunsetting Retirement Age

• nullindividual 3y ago
  > For example, you can take three months extra paid leave while you are 35 by agreeing to increase your retirement age by one year. The idiom "Penny Wise And Pound Foolish" is _perfect_ for this type of thinking. Under this style of system, you are betting that if you live to 'retirement' age, you'll continue to be able to work for the number of years you took off earlier in life. What happens when you can't? This sounds like another way to screw over the working class and still make them poor in the end. This idea isn't radical, it's dangerous.
  • jakozaur 3y ago
    How does that compare to current way of thinking when countries just increase mandatory retirement age for everyone?
    • nullindividual 3y ago
      Both are inhumane. The proposed solution is a sacrifice of your older body in favor of good times when you're young. For some people, that's ideal. This idea also doesn't work for those who do not have the financial means to take advantage of a sabbatical. This idea becomes one for the "wealthy" (relatively speaking). The underclasses continue to be subservient to money. Are the underclass not worthy of this 'benefit'? EDIT: I'm approaching this from an American POV. I can't speak for how Europeans live/take vacation/retire.
• jessriedel 3y ago
  In this context, is the national "retirement age" just the age at which national social-security-type programs start paying out? And the connection to actually retiring (not working) is that (1) people are less likely to want to work if they have access to retirement income and (2) payouts are decreased if you're earning a lot of money?