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Today's topic, retirement.

Retirement.

Or in a way, I suppose I could call it non-retirement.

Let's talk about it.

I think this is an important topic, and it's an important topic for people of all ages.

What does this word mean, first of all? Let's talk about the meaning of the word. Retirement.

So when we say retirement in English, we're talking about us ending work, right? Stopping work. And this is a system,

you know, I don't know when this kind of system started. My guess would be this started with

the Industrial Revolution. And then even more so recently, you know, like recently, I mean like my parents' age, like 1950s or so.

Maybe, you know, going back before then, I'm not sure.

But retirement is this idea that we work until a certain age, and in many countries there's an actual legal age, and then at that age you stop working your job, and in several countries, especially Europe, United States, Canada, you get some kind of income from the government, which of course,

you pay for yourself through taxes all your life, so it's not free. But the idea is that the government's

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