You can be empowered and lose your competitive advantage. It doesn't have to be either or. It is like giving everyone a car. It empowers the fast cyclist, but the fast cyclist is not much better than the rest.
1. Work and creativity give people meaning and joy. Ask anyone who is retired: after a few months of holiday many generally want to go back to work. Take away work and creativity, and many people will feel useless.
2. While what you say may perhaps be true on a larger timescale, at the scale of a human lifetime I don't think this is generally true. During the industrialization period in the 18th century, many people lost their jobs and were unhappy.
If you enjoy your job, you’re lucky. If you don’t enjoy retirement, you’re not trying.
Human psychology is dominated by getting stuck in emotion-behavior cycles, and those cycles wind up in local maxima.
Change is scary. Self-actualization is hard.
I highly, highly, highly doubt what you’re saying would be true for most people. Regardless of social class. I think most people would view retirement as freedom.
Would they immediately feel secure, content, and know their next direction to take? Probably the fuck not, but hey that’s just being human.
I would feel sad though to see someone give up on retirement and personal development to go back to working on business web apps. You have so much potential, don’t be afraid
