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Tag: identity
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The Tiny Job: Why Some Early Retirees Still Need Work
A small post-FIRE job can be a failure, a bridge, or exactly the amount of structure a human animal needs.
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Why Your 75-Year-Old Self Is a Stranger You’re Paying For
Derek Parfit’s 1984 argument about personal identity over time has a brutal implication for retirement planning: the person you are saving for is mostly a stranger. Here is what that means for the math.
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The Job Is Not the Cage. The Identity Is.
Most people who say they are trapped by work are trapped by something stranger: the identity work gave them. The badge comes off before the self-image does.