These 100-year-olds say working beyond retirement age is what keeps them going: 'I'll work for as long as I can'

I have sooooo many fulfilling projects that I could be doing if I didn't have to serve capital for food.

It's a real shame how being used (aka employed) saps people of their individual time, labor, desires, projects, etc.

My brother and I were both worried about our workaholic father when he was about to retire. He made so many projects for himself (genealogy of our family, writing a book, building a mechanical prototype, etc) that he always said he had not enough time in a day.

I think people feel useful in social contexts, people they see everyday, who depend on them, who have consistent interactions. And most people get that through work. Especially when we're talking about older people when their friends start dying. The young people at the job, at the volunteer center, at whatever, provide the connective through thread in their lives to give them purpose.

Some people are very fortunate and they can find purpose without structure, but a lot of people need that structure. I think you're 80% more likely to die within a year of your spouse dying when you're over a certain age. Just you need that social structure

True. But even once the last child was an adult she didn't even have any kind of part time work.

In both of the world wars Britain had an organisation called the Women's Land Army. Which was a thing women could volunteer for to work on farms while the men who would normally work there were at war.

https://www.womenslandarmy.co.uk/

I'll do a sick flip bro then say that was for arche7ype and peace out

No problem, I'm a sick bastard and will come up with something unspeakable

I don't know, pal, I'd rather not work at all. I like listening to music and playing videogames.

Well, I didn't post my sources and you didn't post sources. I think I am right but I don't want to spend the time looking it up when I am straight up told that I'm lying. I'll address your four points off the top of my head though.

1. life expectancy has changed drastically for different populations and subcultures in the usa. Tweakers have a much lower life expectancy. White collar work has a much higher life expectancy. Blue collar... I bet you are right that it is about the same. I read that the current average is 74 (so 10 years longer than when retirement became codified into law) However shortly after the industrial revolution was the information revolution, so most of the gdp of the usa and other western countries is produced by these long lived white collar workers.
2. yup I agree. Blue collar life expectancy is about the same as when retirement was first codified into law
3. money turns to worthless over time unless it is invested and earning interest. A government is in the business of "Accountability to taxpayers on a election Cycle period". Therefore, the government is highly incentivised to kill the golden goose and spend the money and claim that they invested it wisely into roads and stuff. If I recall correctly, that is exactly what happened to the social security program, and we are now paying out as fast as it comes in. Regarding "not tied to the Wallstreet casino" as what makes an investment more financially sound, I don't follow the logic. There is some well established ways to make money on wall street:

buy and hold a low cost index of funds that diversified risk away from a single company. Have a mix of equity vs fixed income based on how soon you intend to start needing to rely on fixed income. Put your money in this exact index fund and don't worry about market ups and downs.

If you follow that investing instruction, you beat the social security administration every time in the last 30 years if you paid in the whole time you worked for 45 years.

1. Taxing the wealthy is hard. There is a general rule of thumb in politics which is "those who have power don't let it go easily", and if those with power caused a politician to be favored, it is generally due to the bet that the politician will pay it back with a favor later. As far as I know, when you tax the wealthy, the wealthy are able to organize some governmental upsets/coops. The American revolution was headed by the "wealthy" of the American colonies. As far as I know, wealth also exits easily if a governmental administration is a hostile/unstable environment. All these things come together to make taxing wealthy people hard. In practice, the wealthy generally have a "high marginal tax rate" (tax rate on paper) but after all the loopholes from politician friends there is a "low effective tax rate" (tax rate actually paid).

Talking about raising the contribution limit is a moot point as government will be "accountable in this election cycle" by spending immediately based on my argument above.

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Did I say anything factually False? I hope to see any nuances that I missed.

I said it to mean agricultural work as in farm work.

-Agricultural revolution brown collar

-Industrial revolution blue collar

-Information revolution white collar