If you work most jobs, whether cognitive or manual labor, after some point you can't do them anymore, due to physical and cognitive decline, medical issues, and the plain fact that you can do that shit as a hobby if you really like it, but you shouldn't need to go to some fucking office or greet people in your local Walmart in your late 60s and 70s just to survive.
replyWe call this stopping of work at that point retirement.
How about that?
Retirement is the withdrawal from active working life, i.e. having a job. It is not a US concept.
replyRight, and a nice thing about software is that retirement doesn’t mean you have to stop doing what you used to do.
replyI’m retired (I know, I’m very lucky), and I’ve done as much or more coding since retirement than I did in my job. But to be fair, AI has really changed how I’m going about things, and I’m not sure what the future is going to bring. I really worry about my adult children and their careers.
But that's the point, ain't it? If you voluntarily abandon doing things you are basically declaring "I'm dead, ignore that I'm still breathing".
replyThe notion that one's economic output is equal to one's worth as a person seems pretty wrong-headed, when considering what the purpose of life is.
reply>when considering what the purpose of life is.
replyAnd what is that exactly?
At best we seem to be rather large containers to ensure that genes get replicated.
That's for us to decide as individuals.
replyHow can something be both wrong and subjective?
replyno contest on the first part, but can you enlighten on what is the purpose of life?
replyWhat point are you trying to make?
replyPoint being that at no point in your life are you bound to be defined by "job"-"retirement" state transition.
replyShed it already.
When your job and commute is 70% of your awake time I can assure you are very well defined by your job
replySo you're telling me that if you won $1b tomorrow you wouldn't know what to do besides continuing your 9 to 5 until you die?
replyOnly if your life is so insignificant and your interests and social circle so narrow that your paid gig determines the whole of it and is your sole purpose.
replyBut if it ain't so, there is effectively no retirement?
replyNot having a job anymore is very different from not "doing things" at all.
replyIt's the part where you stop being a wage slave and can enjoy some freedom, I know, such an alien concept
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