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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

There is a world of difference between someone like Dianne Feinstein being propped up like Weekend at Bernie's and someone in their 70s who is still sharp. They were clearly referring to the former.

That said, if we're bringing up RBG, while she was nowhere near Feinstein's level, she absolutely should have retired. [/quote]

Or Biden who teeters around like a 2 year old toddler with a fully loaded diaper.[/quote]

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