The responses to this issue of retirement reflect the state of our country's economic development, welfare, and social values. In developed countries with a history of welfare, we can expect strong resistance from workers against attempts to increase retirement age. But ours is a society thoroughly permeated with American-style, productivity-obsessed capitalist values: we live to work and we work to live.
I hope we can sometime soon attain a certain level of development that comes with the consciousness that there are moments when we have the right to be 'lazy' and that it is fundamental to respect a natural balance between work and leisure simply because there's more to life than working!
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