“Today's social structures and norms are the vestigial remains of the nineteenth-century, when most people died before their work was finished or their last child had left home. Age 65 was established as the criterion for {{w|Pensions in Germany|insurance eligibility in Germany back in the late 1870s}}—yet age 65 is still used in many countries under today's utterly changed conditions of longevity.”

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