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Yes, as people are disabled through aging, they eventually stop "producing" more than is necessary to sustain them. People with excess "production" have to transfer it to them. This can take various forms, but both a "self-sustaining pension" and a U.S. style "social security fund" use money as this method of transfer; the former is a bit more abstracted since interest / market gains (rather than direct contribution) are used, but it's still the same flow. Making disabled care a cultural norm is even more direct, but also has a lot of coordination problems, and the people with excess production are often geographically (and socially) separated from the people with production deficits.
Of course, the ideal is not just about discontinuing labor participation due to disability, but because we actually want some time insofar as we can afford it.
A mark of, ideally, a bit of 'overproduction' is that we can work fewer hours and/or fewer years. If our ambitions and capabilities allow us to work 32 hour workweeks for a decade and then nope on out on retirement in our 30s for the rest of our lives, that would be a pretty good economic state to be in. A fantasy in practical terms, but a concept to keep in mind as a hypothetical if we ever do manage amazing 'productivity' without enough 'ambition' to consume it all.
I think that if that ever comes, it will be because "retirement" is/becomes a time when you still have excess production but you aren't maximizing production, or that instead of 32hr/wk for 10 years, we do 8hr/wk for 40 years, with 3-5 years in there for pivot+retrain or relax+restore+refocus.
I doubt I'll live to see it, tho.
Another fair point, that we could be targeting a more distributed "retirement" instead of taking it all at the end. How we model it so that we are comfortable with the concept wild be interesting.. when and if we ever get there