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If you actually look at it, the number of people who were actually able to carry on at a physical job until 75 was always small. That's why people had large fam
by jewayne 3y ago
If you actually look at it, the number of people who were actually able to carry on at a physical job until 75 was always small. That's why people had large families, after all -- they were your retirement plan.
- giantg2 3y agoDo you have a source for a number on that? It seems like most of the people in my grandparent's generation worked physical jobs and continued into their 70s. I can see that prior generations maybe took on less physical roles as the next generation took on the more physical farm roles. Still today, we see that Amish tend to have a large number of men working in physical roles at least into their 60s and often times longer.
- jewayne 3y ago> my grandparent's generation But what about the other 3 grandparents? Sorry, after you did it twice I couldn't help myself.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoI would bet people had large families due to lack of available birth control lack of women’s economic independence. At least my grandmothers and great grandmother I asked did not mention retirement when I asked them why they had the number of kids they did.