>Those people are probably going to die at 60-70 y/o anyway. Maybe, though doctors are getting pretty good at treating obesity-related problems. In any event

>Those people are probably going to die at 60-70 y/o anyway. Maybe, though doctors are getting pretty good at treating obesity-related problems. In any event they're going retire in their fifties (or earlier), so from a social services standpoint we're not coming out ahead. > You can stay relatively healthy while working a desk job. The key word being relatively. Taking a walk at lunch and spending an hour at the gym isn't going to make you as healthy as someone who does physical activity all day. >There's no reason to believe it isn't true. Society has just accepted that people have to stop working at 65. Actually, yes, there is a reason to believe it isn't true. We have made effectively zero progress in arresting age-related cognitive decline. Until we do you can raise the retirement age to whatever you want - even people who are still pretty sharp aren't going to be able to find jobs because employers won't want to chance hiring a madogiwa.