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[–] 011011@sopuli.xyz 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

5 day work week. Always seemed odd to me as a child and now that I'm seeing how broken a lot of retirees in their 50s and 60s are it's pretty clear to me that it's a terrible idea.

[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Imagine being able to retire in your 50s and 60s instead of never.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's called getting old in a society of poor healthcare , bad food and no physical activity.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and no physical activity

It seems mainly there's two extremes with the old broken folks they're talking about:

Poor health because it's a sedentary job, or a broken body because they were in construction or something.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Right, and either way, “working too much” is the basic problem. No one should be sitting at a desk that long, and no one should be doing physical labor that long, either.