You're spending most of your time doing something you don't really want to do

And you're doing it during the prime years of your life

Hoping that you can stop doing it when you're older and well past your prime

But you can't get those prime years back nor can you "make up" for them when you're older

It's a longer version of looking forward to the weekend

Because during the weekend you get a couple days of being away from something you don't want to do before having to return to do it all over again

Retirement is your respite that you won't ever have to do it again

You should instead be building a lifestyle you don't want to retire from

Not doing something for decades you don't want to do so you can eventually stop doing it

Lol I don't get how people even get tricked into what society wants you to be it's literally voluntarily putting yourself into prison for 40 + years and just paciently waiting to get out.

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If you love your job you're lying to yourself, but I definitely don't look forward to retirement. I will be old and miserable

Some good points. Time is the one thing we can't get back or more of.

Damn brutal truth nuke from the king of smug

I’m pretty sure there’s a Mexican fisherman who agrees

Retirement is 100% fake.

It's a common myth that we can get back money once we've lost it. You can get new money which you'll need for new expenses and which you've earned with new labor (at least until mass A.I. driven unemployment hits over the next 5 years) but you can never repair financial mistakes.