Retirement As a Pirate
You’d think pirates wouldn’t reach an age of retirement, but they actually had a plan for old age. historian Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos even noted that pirates had a mail system too:
“Pirates had extensive networks on land that kept them in touch with the outside world. They had a mail system of sorts (ships ferrying letters back and forth) that enabled them to communicate with relatives, and even a commuter service to take ‘retiring’ pirates from their famous haunts in Madagascar to more mundane lives in America.”