Retirement

To all the quants sitting on a 5M+ savings, why don't more of you guys retire? I get that usually once you get up towards retirement money, you're probably earning more than you ever have. 

Maybe it took you 10 years to save up 5M, but 2-3 more years and you'll be at 10M. Then another 2-3 and you'll be at 20M. It's obviously very dependent on how much you enjoy your work, opportunity cost of not retiring, etc. 

How do you guys think about your retirement exit?

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