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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does this mean? I understand liking to work, but at some point you aren’t going to be as productive or efficient right?[/quote]

Speak for yourself.

There are people who get well into their 80s or even older who remain more "productive" and "efficient" than the average person. [/quote]

No they don't. I work in a field that's similar to the PP who talked about academia. We have tons of very elderly people - late 70s, 80s, and even mid 90s - who literally refuse to retire. It is not because of the money; some of them work FT even though we no longer have funding for their roles.

I genuinely respect the expertise of older people - I'm in my mid50s myself, and I now appreciate how clueless I was in the first decade of my career - but no one who is 75 or older is more  productive or efficient. Most of them are recycling knowledge that they acquired decades ago and/or relying on armies of assistants. Time to step back and make room.[/quote]

Yep, you're right.  People like Dr Fauci and RBG didn't have much to contribute.  Their work would have been better left to an inexperienced 20 year old. (This is sarcasm btw).[/quote]

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