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by subsection1h 236 days ago
> Increase in productivity has lead to broad increase in prosperity

All of my grandparents retired in their 50s with fat pensions and then lived into their late 80s without having ever stepped foot on a college campus.

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You can do that today. But there was a no episode in history where that would have bene the norm or more likely than it is today. Anecdotes are just that.
Where?

The only place I can think of giving pensions at that age anymore is the military. And you aren’t getting a fat pension without being an officer which requires a degree