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Oh, I do look forward to living through the climate wars and AI ascendancy. Amazing prospect.
No shit. Depending on how things are going in the next 10-15, I might retire way early, do as much bucketlist type stuff as possible until the money runs out, and then check out early. I probably have enough to live for 5 or 10 years if I move somewhere with a lower cost of living, and better that than working until I'm 75 while the world burns.
Perhaps you are half joking or not, but I used to think like this in my younger years. I spent a heck of a lot of time in my 20s and 30s doing all the bucket list stuff. Bunch of sex, drugs, traveling, wild adventures, starting a company, etc. Having gone through that I can tell you that I am much happier now than I was when I thought all those bucket list items were going to make me happy. Sure, they felt good and some were amazing, but it wears off and before you know it you're chasing the next thing again.
A while ago I came across a nice, although a somewhat simplistic, equation that said that happiness equals the number of things you have divided by the number of things you want. I find that wanting less is a much easier route to increase that metric than getting more. Easier said than done though, but I found that silent meditation retreats do the trick for me.
I'm 39, and my bucket list mostly involves traveling to historical sites and trying lots of different food, so I don't think we're particularly comparable.
We don't need to be compatible for the point to stand
A middle aged person saying, "I would rather retire young and do things that are important to me before those things are no longer possible, instead of spending another 30 years working my ass off hoping I'm financially and physically capable of doing anything at the end and that the world isn't literally on fire" is hardly the same as a 20-something doing a bunch of drugs, but sure. Silent mediation. That'll solve global warming and capitalism.
Have you ever considered asking a question or are you only just interested in misrepresenting what I said?
My mantra.