>I have doubts about the survival of retirement as an institution. >I could certainly see a kind of semi-retirement where a person dips out of high-pressure wo

>I have doubts about the survival of retirement as an institution. >I could certainly see a kind of semi-retirement where a person dips out of high-pressure work in favor of lower pressure intellectual work that can be completed on a looser time frame. A lifetime of experience could probably be leveraged to provide valuable insight or work on high-value niche problems in specific domains, and that can be fairly lucrative and is often very amenable to remote part-time employment. This is how most old folks lived for all but the last 100 years. I'd totally be down to work 1-2d / wk if the labor market allowed it, but most jobs are 40h / wk or more with very little in the way of part time flexibility. We're going to have to change to allow this sort of work again in the future.