Mandatory Retirement and Post-60 Life

The Principle

At age 60, formal employment ends. This is not punishment — it is liberation. Americans spend their best decades enriching employers. At 60, they've done their part. The remaining decades belong to them.

Why This Works

Mentorship. A master electrician with 30+ years of experience spends his 60s mentoring apprentices at the trade school — not because he has to, but because he's proud of his craft. A retired nurse volunteers at the government nursing homes. The best teachers are currently too busy working to teach. This creates a massive pool of experienced mentors.

Job pipeline. Every 60-year-old who retires opens a position for a younger worker coming out of the apprenticeship program. Employers know the exact date every employee will leave, giving years to train replacements.

Community. People with time build communities. Coaching youth sports, teaching firearms safety, running community gardens, guiding troubled kids. This is the social infrastructure that money can't buy.

The Dignity Wage — $2,000/Month for 60+

Every American over 60 who needs it receives $2,000/month — the Dignity Wage. This is not Social Security — there's no paying in, no complicated formula, no bureaucracy. If your total assets are below a defined threshold, you get the check. If you saved well during your working years and don't need it, you don't.

The Dignity Wage also applies in special circumstances:

Working-age disability. An American who becomes permanently disabled before 60 receives a scaled Dignity Wage — halfway between the $2,000/month floor and their projected field earnings — until age 60, then drops to the standard $2,000. A welder projected to make $7,000/month receives ~$4,500/month. This is not a handout — it's compensation scaled to what they lost.

Government transition. Americans whose jobs are eliminated by platform reforms (IRS workers, state tax employees, insurance industry workers) receive the standard $2,000/month Dignity Wage while they retrain through free college. The transition is temporary — once retrained, they enter the workforce in a productive field.

Curve Protection for Retirees

Americans over 60 are not subject to the full curve on whatever modest investment income or savings returns they have. Their maximum effective rate is capped at 10% regardless of assets. Rich retirees still contribute something. Poor retirees pay almost nothing.