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Pentagon-Funded Study Warns Dementia Among U.S. Officials Poses National Security Threat (theintercept.com)
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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Need to feel useful" feels like an altruistic decision. I believe most of these people are all but that.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What I meant is a retiree crisis. You have been working for 40/50 odd years, and all of a sudden you loose the one thing that gave structure to your life.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Right, like my father who only now has been forced to retire at 70 after a covid induced blood clot behind his eye took his vision. He only had the one good eye after an accident in his teens blinded the other, and he doesn’t complain about the near total blindness, he complains about the boredom from lack of stuff to do.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    The need to feel useful isn’t really altruistic. Sure, it can be, but the vast majority of the time it’s a selfish urge to satisfy one’s own dopamine rush of accomplishment mixed with “I’m the only one who can do this” thoughts. Throw in a dash of mental illness and a sprinkling of “this is how we did it in the good ole days”, and it’s more harm than help.

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