U.S. business executives call for raising retirement age to 70

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126. Thank you for your sensible posts

It's disappointing to see the number of people in this thread who think "sitting at a desk" is all that happens in an office job. Technology has made us accountable pretty much around the clock and true vacations have disappeared. There is a lot of mental and emotional stress associated with any job that involves involuntary or contrived human interaction, i.e. "relationships" that only exist because of some sort of underlying transaction. It's stressful for anyone who has already worked three or four decades and would rather be left alone and/or spend more time with their loved ones, which is a lot of us, particularly as we get older.

You reach a point pretty quickly where you realize you have a finite number of healthy days left and you'd like to spend them on something resembling your terms. Work can co-exist alongside that and can even be an energizing force, but the thought of submitting to the regimentation of full-time employment until age 70 is something I'm not going to even contemplate.