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Yeah but if they extend your life won't you need even more for retirement?

If I'm healthy enough to keep working, retirement isn't really necessary.

Also, given enough time, I ought to be able to amass a self-sustaining pile of wealth and then I can retire :)

If everyone does that, nobody is making the things you want to buy with that wealth pile. Not until we also get enough automation to also have UBI.

I don't think that's a problem in their scenario, since the situation is leveraging life extension to work past retirement age. Working until age 80 and living out retirement until 120 would mean a vastly expanded labor pool, unless you're assuming everyone stops having kids.

This is technically true, but once you plan for a 60 year retirement, going out 90 or 100 years is not as difficult as lasting the first 30 years.

I think withdrawing 3% a year would have lasted you the entire time since the 1880s (last 140 years of the stock market)

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