What is retirement?
Retirement is generally accepted as being the period of life
when a person is eligible for retirement benefits and, therefore, able to leave
the workforce.
In the United States, the Social Security Act established by
President Roosevelt allowed for people to receive Social Security benefits at
65, thereby setting the retirement age as such. It’s not a law that people
retire at 65, but more of an ideological expectation. After all, why would a
person not want to reti...
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