“Retirement is a scam invented to make you accept wasting your healthy years so you can be 'free' when your body fails”
Agree
- You're broken by retirement age
- Can't enjoy freedom with failing health
- Best years wasted in cubicles
- System designed to extract your prime
Disagree
- Many people stay healthy into seventies
- Financial security at any age matters
- Can balance life and work before retirement
- Compound interest requires time to work
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