Hacker News with Generative AI: Retirement

America Needs to Rethink What It Means to Be Old (theatlantic.com)
As 100-year lifespans become more common, the time has come for a new approach to school, work, and retirement.

Aging, Society, Retirement, Education, Work

17 points by thinkingemote 12 days ago | 12 comments

Ask HN: Who Is Retiring? (ycombinator.com)
After (many) years of work, I've decided to take a break. Maybe for a year. Maybe indefinitely.

Retirement, Careers, Life Decisions

12 points by edent 14 days ago | 17 comments

I wanted to live cheaply, I bought a boat, moved in to travel the world (theguardian.com)
After his 92-year-old mother died in 2019, Stephen Payne decided it was time for a change. But having spent the previous six months at her home in Torquay, where he is from, and the 27 years before that living in Los Angeles, Payne, a 60-year-old photographer, wasn’t sure where to go next.

Travel, Lifestyle, Personal Stories, Retirement

5 points by tosh 82 days ago | 0 comments

Ribbonfarm Is Retiring (ribbonfarm.com)
After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog.

Retirement, Blogging, Online Communities, Content Creation

178 points by Arubis 90 days ago | 131 comments

Ribbonfarm Is Retiring (ribbonfarm.com)
After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I’ve decided to officially fully retire this blog.

Blogs, Retirement, Online Communities

11 points by goopthink 97 days ago | 0 comments

Generation Never-Called-in-Sick (businessinsider.com)
Retired boomers have one big regret

Retirement, Boomers, Generational Differences

16 points by agubelu 102 days ago | 10 comments

Workday Billionaire 'Bored Silly' of Retirement Chases a Third IPO (bloomberg.com)
Dave Duffield keeps trying, and failing, to retire.

Entrepreneurship, Retirement, IPOs, Business

6 points by coloneltcb 103 days ago | 0 comments

Young Chinese are retiring in the countryside as China's unemployment woes grate (cnbc.com)

Retirement, China, Economy, Demographics

6 points by donsupreme 108 days ago | 1 comments

Life, death, and retirement (wordpress.com)
I haven’t been blogging much lately, and it turns out there is a very good reason.

Life, Death, Retirement, Blogging

319 points by david2ndaccount 108 days ago | 165 comments

Ted Weschler Turned $70k into $264M in a Retirement Account (umd.edu)
You can sometimes find fascinating information in footnotes — and that’s where I discovered the amazing investment returns of Ted Weschler, 60, a relatively low-profile money manager based in Charlottesville whose retirement account has outperformed the S&P 500 by hundreds to 1.

Investing, Retirement, Finance, Performance

26 points by chollida1 113 days ago | 39 comments

Retiring from the idea of retirement (candost.blog)
I'm not here to tell you that you should be working for a monthly salary for the rest of your life. Also, it’s not about passive income or financial independence and definitely not a promoter of a hustle culture. That's not the main idea.

Retirement, Lifestyle, Work-Life Balance

90 points by mooreds 125 days ago | 102 comments

China raises retirement age for first time since 1950s (bbc.com)
China will "gradually raise" its retirement age for the first time since the 1950s, as the country confronts an ageing population and a dwindling pension budget.

China, Retirement, Population, Economics, Social Policy

37 points by haunter 127 days ago | 6 comments

They're Breaking Every Retirement Rule to Be Off Now, Not Later (wsj.com)

Retirement, Finance, Lifestyle

16 points by mooreds 131 days ago | 38 comments

Harvard Professor Has Plan to Persuade Supreme Court Justices to Retire (newsweek.com)

Politics, Supreme Court, Law, Retirement

5 points by howard941 141 days ago | 7 comments

Young workers face a new challenge: Older workers aren't retiring (washingtonpost.com)

Generational Issues, Retirement, Labor Market

16 points by howard941 144 days ago | 54 comments

What Are 'Mini-Retirements,' and Who Takes Them? (thecut.com)