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These 100-year-olds say working beyond retirement age is what keeps them going: 'I'll work for as long as I can' (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] then_three_more 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Counterpoint: my nan is 104 and hasn't done a day of work since she was a Land Girl during the second world war.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Guess she was an at home mom, right? Because that's more than a full time job, especially back in the days when the man didn't take care of the kids except when it came time to scold them.

[–] then_three_more 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True. But even once the last child was an adult she didn't even have any kind of part time work.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good she did her job! She did her part and presumably satisfied with it.

This whole devaluation of womens labour contributionand to society as mothers is fucking disgusting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just to chime in a little. I don't think the implication was "my nan never worked", I think it was more "she never had a 9 to 5". No one in this conversation was trying to say being a mom is easy, so much as they're saying working a desk job is harmful to the soul. While more demanding than a desk job, raising children is also a truly meaningful occupation; like, deep down, meaning of life type meaningful. You don't get "paid", but no amount of pay is worth more than watching your child learn and become a person either. Ultimately I don't think the ease or difficulty of jobs is whats enabling or preventing these people from living a long time. It probably has more to do with a sense of purpose. The article is disingenuous because an overwhelming majority of jobs do not provide a sense of purpose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The article is disingenuous because an overwhelming majority of jobs do not provide a sense of purpose.

Exactly.

Also, I didn't mean that somebody implied that about motherhood here.

But I bet corporate propganda would tho... Why would this bitch parenting her child when she could be making daddy some mother fucking money as a girl boss or whatever recent bushit they are shiling.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What is a land girl?

[–] then_three_more 15 points 4 months ago

In both of the world wars Britain had an organisation called the Women's Land Army. Which was a thing women could volunteer for to work on farms while the men who would normally work there were at war.

https://www.womenslandarmy.co.uk/