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    5 months ago

    Fun fact, it was quite common for people to live into their 80s in the past. The shorter life expectancy myth (1) comes with averaging age of death infant mortality, which was far higher and (2) the drop in life expectancy during industrialization.

    A few thousand years ago we had a similar life expectancy and worked far less. There are other tradeoffs of course.