4.6 • 682 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
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0:08.1 | So I'm 64. My plan is to not retire. I'm planning to stay on the microphone. Are you allowed to say that? I said that one time I got excoriated by people. |
0:17.9 | That's what I wanted to bring up. That's what I wanted to bring up. You said it's insane that we haven't raised the retirement age in the U.S. I think there's two parts to this |
0:26.1 | argument. There's a Social Security math problem of the arbitrary age 65 thing, but there's also |
0:35.0 | then the philosophy of what is retirement and why did we create this |
0:40.1 | idea that we work at something we hate long enough and hard enough that we don't have to do |
0:45.4 | anything. And that seems to be counterproductive. It doesn't seem to be a good spiritual walk to me. |
0:51.9 | It doesn't seem to be good emotionally balanced to me. You know, |
0:55.0 | I can't find retirement in the Bible. And I'm not condemning someone who is retiring, but philosophically |
1:02.1 | I want to talk about retirement or we do. And also I want to talk about this idea, it's, you know, |
1:07.0 | the end of that quote from you is it's not fiscally sustainable, you know, to quit at 65 when you've got a, you know, the end of that quote from you is it's not fiscally sustainable, you know, to quit at |
1:12.5 | 65 when you've got a, you know, pretty good likelihood if you make it to 65, statistically, |
1:18.3 | you're probably going to be 90. So you've got, you know, those numbers start to be screwy with |
1:23.4 | Social Security. Yep. I mean, so as you say, there's two arguments there. The one I think I got |
1:27.2 | hit more on was the virtue argument that you were making about |
1:29.7 | the virtue of work and how it's not good to have a mentality at 65 that you're basically |
1:34.7 | going to. |
1:35.2 | And when I said retirement, what I meant was like actual retirement, like go sit on a beach |
1:38.2 | somewhere, move down to the villages, drink at 3 p.m. |
1:40.7 | You know, like that, that sort of thing. I wasn't talking about people who decide that, you know, their back is broken from |
1:45.4 | having worked a job for 30 years. |
1:47.6 | And now what they want to do is work in their community. |
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