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Re:Who Stole the Four-Hour Workday? by thelucky41 on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @04:05PM (#8204266)
In the past century, the average retirement age has been steadily decreasing up until very recently when it began going up again[1]. People spend more time in school earlier, but education usually leads to working later in life as well[2].

[1] http://www.bls.gov/mlr/1992/07/art3full.pdf [2] http://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/IB_11-11-508.pd...

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Re:Who Stole the Four-Hour Workday? by cenhyperion on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @04:35PM (#8204447)
> education usually leads to working later in life as well

Do either of these explore why? My initial uninformed guess is that knowledge based fields many college grads go into are much less tied to physical fitness and thus workers are able to continue their jobs later into life when physical labor wouldn't be possible.

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