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Originally Posted by Slava
It's more and more common (at least anecdotally) that people work longer, and the shift is that they're working because they want to, not that they need to. Filling 40 hours a week with things to do consistently is not as easy as people expect. I find that clients work in all kinds of jobs after they retire, or volunteer or do something to get them out of the house, socializing with people and keeping busy.
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Yeah, but the people retiring now are still from a generation when A) people were accustomed to having a lot of social contact, B) adults (especially men) gained their sense of self-worth from work, and C) indolence was frowned upon.
I'm not sure those factors will still hold true 20 or 30 years from now. I don't see people who already spend 25 hours a week watching Netflix and playing videogames having a tough time adjusting to not having a job to go to every day. Also, I doubt the automated workplace of the future will have a lot of unfilled service industry jobs for seniors to take up. A lot fewer people will be needed to staff the plumbing section of Rona, and those jobs will be highly sought-after.