Work until you die? Gen X was the first to realize it would never have the retirement security the Baby Boomers have largely enjoyed (that little thing called the Great Recession notwithstanding), and for the past couple of months ‘foreverwork’ has become something of a meme for millennials. First came the “Many millennials expect to work until they die” stories back in May, prompted by a study by a global HR company. Now, the media tide is turning. Witness: “Retirement is making people more miserable than ever before” (MarketWatch) and “Millennials will work forever–but they may be happier for it” (Quartz). Despite its lousy headline, this piece by upstart men’s rag Mel is the first to make us think that maybe never retiring isn’t such a bad thing. Mel uses 72-year-old reporter, rights advocate and professor Leon Dash to make a pretty good case that working ‘til you die isn’t such a bad thing as long as you love what you do — and don’t live only for work.

Oh, and the notion that there’s no job security left in the world? That’s B.S., writes the New Yorker, admittedly in an American context: “…our collective nostalgia misrepresents historical job security so completely that it gets it close to backward. We imagine a past where everyone had thirty-year careers (or, less pretentiously, jobs), tapering off into a work twilight and then retirement. This memory is surprisingly at odds with the data: the typical worker now stays at a job six months longer than the average worker did a decade ago. Taking an even longer-term view, the typical worker has stayed at the same job for more than four and a half years, versus just three and a half years in 1983.