re: #268 WindUpBird

You don’t need to be sickly, or even all that old, to be incapicitated and done with your career

Think of anyone who has a physical job, their bodies are fucked up long before retirement age

Someone like me who sits behind a desk and makes stuff? I don’t need tor etire. A guy who cuts lumber? People in construction? Not the same thing. We live longer, because we know how the body works more than we used to (40 years ago, mental health was essentially in the middle ages here) but that doesn’t mean we magically have changed our skeletons and our tendons and our back muscles and our spines to allow us to work longer

Even desk jockeys need to retire, as a public-safety issue. As people get closer to death, the threat of a life-sentence is diminished, and their threat to young assholes in the workplace thus increases.