Older workers cutting out, Why put up with the Shiite?
SS calculation is essentially maxed out. A few years won’t make a difference.
Many families lost one earner due to a WuHu business closure, dramatically cut profits, lost hours. Budgets were trimmmed, a re-balancing of work/life.
Many have done the calculations: Unless the second earner is on track for future big bucks, the taxes, expenses and BS of the second earner aren’t worth it. Especially with our GOAT PDJT’s tax cuts.
Many folks are re-discovering having one-at-home with the kids is a good thing.
I don’t care to work to pay for gas. Just turned 65. Winding down one business and coming up with an exit strategy for the other. Then it is time to move as far in to the woods as possble and watch society collapse. We are over 50% there now.