Abstract
It may be time for financial planners to advise some clients that retirement may not be in their best interests. If the job is rewarding, and interesting, the escape from retirement may indeed be a very good thing.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” The Poems of Dylan Thomas (New York: New Directions, 1952)
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Sarah Laskow, “How Retirement Was Invented,” Atlantic, October 24, 2014.
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Mel P., “A Brief History of Retirement in America, Part 5,” Next Hill blog, December 2, 2009; accessed at: http://www.thenexthill.com/a-brief-history-of-retirement-part-5.htm
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Ibid.
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Aristotle, Politics, Book 1, section 1257b.
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Mel P. (2009), endnote 4.
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Duska, R. (2022). The Dark Side of Retirement. In: Bowie, N.E., Werhane, P.H. (eds) Contemporary Reflections on Business Ethics. Issues in Business Ethics(), vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73928-7_22
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