I agree with your general train of thought, I just think you are conflating earned wealth with unearned wealth. If I earned enough wealth via my work and time, to retire early I have (at least in theory), contributed my fair share of value to society, I've just done it early or more efficiently.
Now if everyone is retiring off inheritance, never having worked or created value, that is unearned and the whole thing stops working as you mention.
But let's say everyone is crazy work work efficient and retires at like 50, that still works because the same economic output is being created just earlier and by less people. So with the right tools and efficient work, yes everyone could retire earlier than retirement age, because someone else will be working towards their retirement.
If course in practice it is more nuanced, and not all jobs align with the value they create, but in general that is why I think earned wealth accumulated for early retirement is not unethical. Otherwise retiring at all would be unethical.
just my two sats, cheers
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2025-05-11 22:53:27
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