Do you ever think that retirement is right for you? Setting around, playing golf, fishing, and traveling may seem appealing for a time but will get boring fast. Those that do nothing only last for an average of four years. Playing golf or fishing is only fun for a time and then becomes boring.
The Buy OFF
For many in the past retirement was the way those in leadership kept people loyal. Augustus Caesar paid his officers well in retirement to keep them loyal. In the industrial age, the carrot of retirement was used as an inducement to work in soul-killing jobs.
Today the use of retirement as a carrot is changing but is still used. Retirement is often used to move someone out of the picture and replace that person. In my parent’s generation, it was a way to keep the ball rolling.
Killing Your Heart
Retirement can be a terrible way to treat people. To move them out once they are a certain age. It assumes that after a certain age a person has no value. You are told to suck it up today because in retirement it will be all green pastures and lush. It’s going to be wonderful in a few decades.
Cost of the Trade-Off
- It encourages taking jobs that aren’t fulfilling.
- It brings with it, reduced mental function, heart attack, and stroke.
- It assumes that most have lived past their prime, and don’t have anything to contribute to society.
- It deprives the community of the contributions that many have to offer.