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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (17 children)

This title almost reads like The Onion.

On a serious note, why? These people (on both sides) have enough money saved, health benefits etc to comfortably retire. Why don’t they? Are they so bought and paid for that their ‘investors’ won’t let them?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Power. And need to feel useful.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"Need to feel useful" feels like an altruistic decision. I believe most of these people are all but that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I meant is a retiree crisis. You have been working for 40/50 odd years, and all of a sudden you loose the one thing that gave structure to your life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, like my father who only now has been forced to retire at 70 after a covid induced blood clot behind his eye took his vision. He only had the one good eye after an accident in his teens blinded the other, and he doesn’t complain about the near total blindness, he complains about the boredom from lack of stuff to do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe he should run for office? With a resume like that I bet he could at least score a seat in the house of representatives

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just look at all the life experience he has! The whole 70 years of i!

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