3 ms·
People who are "retired" today also work inside the household. They're still making food, doing laundry, and often looking after grandchildren. Even though ret
by freddie_mercury 6y ago
People who are "retired" today also work inside the household. They're still making food, doing laundry, and often looking after grandchildren.
Even though retirement has been "invented", 60% of grandparents provide childcare in the US and 27% of people over 65 are still in the workforce.
There's clearly been some change in the past ~100 years, would be pretty weird if there hadn't!, but I'm not convinced there's really a bright line of "retirement was invented, before and after".