re: #264 MinisterO

The Social Security Administration publishes actuarial tables. Check out the life table:

[Link: www.ssa.gov…]

A 65-year old woman has a life expectancy of 19.7 years and has about a 30.5% chance of making it to 90, assuming Y2006 mortality rates. If we throw out the sickly ones well I’m sure it’s as you say.

You don’t need to be sickly, or even all that old, to be incapicitated and done with your career

Think of anyone who has a physical job, their bodies are fucked up long before retirement age

Someone like me who sits behind a desk and makes stuff? I don’t need tor etire. A guy who cuts lumber? People in construction? Not the same thing. We live longer, because we know how the body works more than we used to (40 years ago, mental health was essentially in the middle ages here) but that doesn’t mean we magically have changed our skeletons and our tendons and our back muscles and our spines to allow us to work longer