No no no, you mean, dedicated 82 year old worker is extremely enthusiastic to go flip burgers everyday ! She doesn’t want to retire because she loves her job and would be bored otherwise !
Uhmmm… At this point, what if you guys set up like a GoFundMe for everybody? Like you all agree to put a part of your wages into this common GoFundMe, which is a small cost all in all, and when the time comes, each worker gets their own payout! You could even have it pay monthly, to make sure that nobody can waste all their fund too early and end up destitute.
That’s kind of cool. Although with the turn over rate of how long most people stay at jobs these days I am shocked not more people have the jaded mentality of “why should I do this if I’ll never benefit from it myself”. Pretty cool that everyone just does the better thing for others.
We could call it “Social Security”. Before there was GoFundMe, there were taxes that could be used in a similar fashion for expenses society finds valuable.
I’ll be the evil right wing swine here and say it out loud - I don’t expect you to be able to retire from a part time minimum wage job, but that’s also the reason we have ’safety nets’ that are supposed to ‘catch’ you in these cases. It shouldn’t be a surprise that you can’t retire from a McDonalds gig but don’t let your outrage redirect you from the “one in four adults do not have any retirement savings”, or the (implied?) social security is insufficient
CEOs are on the clock 24hours a day after all, and keep working way into old age! Not to mention all the investment they usually do, that’s a lot of work, and they do it until they die!