Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations.
About 41% of Gen Z and 44% of millennials — those who are currently between 27 and 42 years old — are significantly more likely to want to do some form of paid work during retirement.
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This increasing preference for a lifelong income, could perhaps make the act of “retiring” obsolete.
Although younger workers don’t intend to stop working, there is still an effort to beef up their retirement savings.
It’s ok! Don’t ever retire! Just work until you die, preferably not at work, where we’d have to deal with the removal of your corpse.
No, I’m not. We aren’t one of the best, we’re fucking dismal.
Here’s a chart I picked at random. You can look at any other analysis but the data is largely the same :
https://public.tableau.com/static/images/Li/LifeExpectancyvsHealthcareExpenditure/OECD/1_rss.png
We are competing with Latvia, Poland, Mexico, Slovakia, Czechia for life expectancy. We are being raped by health care executives so badly that not one single other country comes even close to our health care expenditures.
Every single EU member state has us beat in both reduced health care costs and better life expectancy. Some states have us beat by a LOT.