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My name is Joshua, and today I'm going to talk with you about the power

of choosing not to retire. This has become something of, I guess a theme here on radical personal finance. I never really set out to make it a theme

But it is something that I have thought for a long time

Way back in the early years of the show I did a series of shows on the myth, the scam that is retirement, and how basically retirement is a very modern concept and it's been in essence foisted upon people really without much historical precedent.

Now that's not necessarily all the bad thing and I'm not I don't want to be known as

the anti-retirement guy, but I do think that we often raise the value of retirement so high, especially in the Western context, that we miss out on some of the downsides of retiring.

Now I've talked about the downsides before but today I want to simply talk about

the upsides of choosing not to retire.

Another reason why I have a little bit of tension with this subject is that I would say that

of the modern kind of financial nomenclature there's a big movement and a massive growth

of what's called the fire movement.

Fire being an acronym that refers to financial independence, retire early or

early retirement. And I love this movement. I think it's really cool. I've been around it and sort of a part of it for a decade long before I started radical personal finance. I was super interested in.

I find much of the fire

community and much of the fire content extremely compelling. However I've always

had this great discomfort with the fire movement. In fact I actually wrote and recorded a show one

time called why I'm not part of the fire movement. I chose not to release it

because it it was too negative and I felt like I was too preachy and I just decided to can the show.

But I don't really think of myself as part of the fire movement.

Now if it's just about financial independence, I'm all on on board but the early retirement thing

is where I just I don't think it's a great move and so I don't stress on this

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