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No retirement: Why are more and more people over 70 still working?
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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Seems like that would only be a problem if real wages were stagnant, which they have been for 40 years but that might mean that THAT is the problem.
The typical worker is producing 2.5x the value that a worker produced in 1950, seems reasonable they should be able to afford a 15% increase in life expectancy (or whatever) over that same time period.