Hear me out. The only reason we have to work ourselves to the bone until you are 65 is because we spend to much money on shit we don’t need.
If it’s a possibility you should quit your jobs. Buy small vans or trailers and travel around. (If you need to, stop paying rent for a month or two to save up the cash plus sell all your earthly possessions that can’t fit and don’t bring you some purpose or happiness)
There are entire communities of people living this way. The simplistic approach to life allows you to worry less about money and spend more time just living. (Check out rubber tramps and simple rv living)
Not to mention another added benefit would be that an entire subsection of the youth who would normally be entering the grind and their “entry level” jobs would be unavailable in the workforce. They’d be off traveling around the country living their best lives.
The best form of non compliance is to simply not participate in the madness that they expect from you.
So, in summation, quit your job, buy a van, travel the country doing seasonal or gig work, pare everything in your life down to its simplest form, ditch the idea of debt culture, ditch the idea of retiring after you’ve given your body and soul to the machine, live your best life now, send me a post card.