“Retirement is a scam invented to make you productive when you're young and useless when you're wise.”
Agree
- Experience gets shelved right when it's valuable
- Capitalist system extracts then discards human value
- We should contribute throughout our entire lives
- Forced obsolescence destroys elder purpose and dignity
Disagree
- People deserve rest after decades of labor
- Physical decline is real, not imagined
- Retirement enables pursuit of delayed dreams finally
- Younger generations need room to lead and innovate
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