Sitting around doing nothing isn't of much interest. I have found that doing something valuable which earns incomes is rewarding psychologically <even if the likeable activities may earn us income > Golf is good too. So is minding children and grand children [both major occupations during my decades of retirement]. Political activism can be fun too.
Dr Irwin Jacobs retired a couple of decades ago, but soon found it wasn't so interesting. He started Qualcomm instead, inventing CDMA/OFDM [along with the team]. Now mobile cyberspace fills the aethersphere bringing peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love, even to the benighted recalcitrants in China who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into modernity - and still they cling to their TD-SCDMA fakery = fakes are an essential ingredient in China, like melamine is an infant nutrient and lead is a brain component unlike the honest efforts of Wall Street and those running big public companies and public policy.
As pointed out by others, that longevity vs retirement age graph was bung. But one truth hiding in the data is that smarter people retire younger and live longer = because it takes brains to retire early and stay alive and the chance of doing both is increased with more understanding of how the world and our bodies work.
We have proof of that truth because humans are the smartest animals by far [with obvious exceptions] and we also live longer than nearly everything other than some slow moving do nothings who just fill in time keeping out of trouble, like a tree, tortoise or government employee in Helengrad.
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