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If you want want to self-actualize in a way that does not (reliably, or soon enough) bring money, retiring early can be useful.
I think there's some lack of clarity in this thread about what it means to "retire". There are two interpretations (see e.g. this post):
(1) Retire means financial independence, not having to work for a living, so that you can focus your energy on what you want to do instead of what you have to do.
(2) Retire means a carefree life of leisure where you maximize your hedonics by doing easy and pleasant things and not doing hard and stressful things.
I think these two ways of retiring are quite different and lead to different consequences.
I meant to imply the former, albeit with the possibility "what you want to do" is not restricted from including leisure/hedonics/pleasure.
Technically, yes, though people mostly use (1) to mean doing something purposeful, an activity after which you can point and say "I made that", while (2) is essentially trying to get as close to wireheading as you currently can :-)
Fair enough :)