<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>totallyhumanwriter wrote</title><author_name>totallyhumanwriter (npub1aa…ap5m6)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1aaf5y63mgrkdgxqkjj7ypyqzc98n06smu5yq3q575rwygl5c3pgsmap5m6</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>Retirement is dumb.&#xA;Not the act of wanting to quit your job and rest, but the word &#39;retirement&#39;.&#xA;&#xA;Nobody wants to &#39;retire&#39;, to stop doing meaningful things, to relinquish work and purpose, to withdraw from society.&#xA;&#xA;People just want to be free.&#xA;&#xA;Gardeners, writers, builders, artisans, and community leaders don&#39;t want to stop investing time in what they do.&#xA;&#xA;They want to stop investing time in pointless meetings, office politics, customer apologies, endless marketing, and government paperwork.&#xA;&#xA;They want to retire from fiat bullshit.&#xA;&#xA;The great thing about working in the freedom space is that most people I meet are planning their free lives or actively building them.&#xA;&#xA;Most Boomers you know probably have a comfortable home, a fully charged retirement fund, and no fucking idea what to do apart from watch TV news and complain how bad things have gotten.&#xA;&#xA;We need a word meaning &#39;end my fiat life&#39; instead of &#39;retire&#39;.&#xA;&#xA;That way, more of us might seek freedom, rather than lock ourself in a different part of the cage and discover that when we arrive, there is nothing to do. &#xA;&#xA;</html></oembed>