Or maybe that's just the human condition? Retirement is a pretty recent concept anyway. Back when people were hunter/gatherers or subsistence farmers, you didn't have the option of retiring. You either kept working or you starved, perished from the elements, etc.

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tensor 6 hours ago | parent [-]

That's not true. There were always different roles for older people. They didn't just keep doing the same job their whole lives.

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pavel_lishin 5 hours ago | parent [-]

And people who were injured to the point where they couldn't "work" anymore were still cared for by their community.

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weirdmantis69 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I mean, that just isn't true. There are amazon tribes today where they just send them down the river to die... your ideas are a disney-fied version of a false past that never existed.

	▲	DangitBobby 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Unspecified Amazon tribes don't represent the lion's share of historical treatment of aging populations. One negative example doesn't undermine the point.
	▲	ryoshoe 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They're right. We've found remains that show how thousands of years ago people took care of people that would have died without external assistance. https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-patagonian-hunter-disa...