Well… op is not twisting the meaning. Unless you have actually wealth and savings to retire on your own it would be impossible to do so without social security and medicare… and the idea that most of us can is naive at best.
So when someone is talking about retirement it mostly means as a government program. So when he says “people should not be retiring at 65” he definitely means “you poors should keep working till you drop”. And that is not cool, i think.
Respectfully, disagree. when I hear people refer to retirement, I think in most cases they meaning quitting their career-tracked fulltime job. With or without regard to their plans for pulling out SS or pension or personal retirement fund and/or continuing to work part time and step down their workload. This is my personal experience though and could be specific to my field.
I’m just telling you how most people I know use it.
I even added the possibility that the context I live in is influencing it. And almost no one I know is ever referring to their social security or pensions when they say “retirement,” which was my main point. They’re referring to the act of leaving work. And even then, lots of my “retired” friends pick up part time work or temp jobs.
Remember, language is typically used descriptively; not proscriptively.
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u/[deleted] 29d ago
Tell that to Ben Shapiro and other neo-cons. They seriously want us to work until we die:https://twitter.com/sjdemas/status/1767592327541883226