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by twoslide 705 days ago
In addition to a touching personal tribute, this article also illustrates the jobs crisis for PhD graduates. Someone who started his career in the 1950s works into his eighties, teaching from hospital, and dies less than a week after retiring. This is not a good model, and a good argument for mandatory retirement ages.
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It’s only a bad model if he didn’t love what he did for a living. Otherwise I find it quite inspiring.
Define 'bad'. You're an emotivist by the way.