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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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.
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Yeah I can see that. Retirement could be totally different 25 years from now, but that’s impossible to know today. A century ago no one retired, and it’s really a modern construct, so in a lot of ways we’re still figuring this out.