Retiredtooearly, your point is?
As well as those who need to continue in employment to make it up to all their ex-wives for their wicked wicked ways, there are some who actually do enjoy flying. Sure, some of these characters have no life outside of aviation and personally I think that's sad because it does come to an end eventually. But plenty of us feel a need to maintain remaining neurons not yet destroyed by booze. Apparently, activities like flying are good for this, with the side benefit that money usually flows from selling a skill - to fund the very life you seem to think we don't have. Boats or motor bikes or vintage cars or hobby farms or whatever 'toys' tickle our pickles cost money. What's Walter Mitty got to do with those pursuits - he only imagined he was doing such ****.
Better all round for the economy if we do not raid that ever-diminishing pension fund until we really need to do so. Once that's gone it will be succeeding generations whose taxes will go to keeping us on life support. Someone said "when you retire, you die". Can't have that, can we?