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.

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.

  • squiblet
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    108 months ago

    When people could afford a decent home on a single job paid minimum wage? Not so sure.

      • squiblet
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        78 months ago

        Okay, fair point that racial equity and access to opportunity has increased significantly in most of the country. Gender equality has come a long way as well, though it’s also a “ha ha you have to work now too and your family is still worse off than it was, good luck with paying for day care”

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        8 months ago

        Which was a huge bullshit injustice which need correcting and hurt a lot of people.

        But now we’re at the point where skin color doesn’t matter in this scenario. Only bank balances matter. And you probably don’t have a high enough one to afford a house no matter what color your skin is.