Great list roundup
Fun to see the group collectively evolving toward increasingly interesting conversations.
1. Eliminate the concept of retirement
From a list about reducing the cost of elder care by @Mysteries. Back in my 30's I started to gravitate toward the idea of never retiring in the traditional sense. 20 years later I am still of that mindset. Successful aging requires movement, activity and a lot of engagement. Retirement in the traditional sense, inhibits all of that. Better to move to your next chapter, a beginning, not an end like with retirement, and for that next chapter to be whatever you want with no regard for what the income might be.
2. Complete overhaul of the food industry
Also from @Mysteries, Ain't gonna happen. It is up to us to solve that problem for ourselves. The more meat, eggs, cheese and fish we eat at the exclusion of processed food the better job we will do of solving this for ourselves. We would all be much healthier for doing this. Again, meat, eggs, cheese and fish.
3. Complete overhaul of the medical and pharmaceutical industries
Last one from @Mysteries. See number 2. If you eat meat, eggs, cheese and fish and have little to no processed food you will need fewer (no?) prescriptions. I've referred to this as changing behaviors to opt out of the prescription treadmill.
4. Teach financial literacy to people in their 40s and 50s so that they create passive income for their later years
From @chris407x on essentially the same topic as above. I am all for financial literacy, the earlier the better. Again though, this is something for people to seek out for themselves. Don't wait for "them" to just start making useful information available to us. Go get it, don't wait for it.
https://notepd.com/idea/how-to-reduce-costs-with-elder-care-vd1ht
5. Communal food prep to buy in bulk
Another one from @chris407x. Slight twist from me to focus on localism to source food from within the community. We have that a little here with a couple of people selling eggs. Sourcing meat close to home seems plausible even if not in like a 2 or 3 mile radius.
6. The Omega male/female
An intriguing list from @JamesAltucher. I've never heard of this before. The way I take James' list is to be very related to something very important to me, being orthogonal to society or "being off grid in the grid." James says the omega doesn't care what people say about them. Someone called me a jerk the other day, not everyone likes the local fire chief, and I told them they were probably right. Encounter over. There are very few people whose opinion matters.
Other things from the omega list included interests having nothing to do with social status (I like to take pictures of fire trucks), get good at skills that pay nothing which to me is a form of optionality for "retirement" as noted above and be a good investor James says. That last one is important, that's my day job and while I won't make a claim about being good, you can have great success by not being stupid which is something that Charlie Munger has talked about.
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