Don’t believe this propaganda you’ll read in the next few years about retirement.

Yes, it is likely to occur, but it is a societal choice, not a necessity.

Given how much higher our productivity is than in, say, 1920, we could easily work much less and accept a somewhat lower standard of living and all retire at 50 or so. This is a possible world. There is absolutely nothing economically, thermodynamically, or environmentally preventing this — just political decisions and the propaganda- and circumstance-spurred compulsion to make the rich ever richer.

Expect to read more and more such pieces in the next few years as the neoliberal project attempts to eliminate programs like the NHS and Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the like, all to shovel that money to fund managers and private enterprise so that they may freely embezzle those funds.