Social Security
American retirement system
Episodes
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#5162: Retirement Was Invented: Work, Aging, and the Pension CliffRetirement as a funded life stage is barely a century old. Here's what pre-industrial work lives actually looked like — and why the cliff-edge pers... -
#5145: What Life Expectancy Really Meant in the 1600sThat "people died at 35" statistic? It's mostly measuring dead children, not short adult lives. -
#5691: When the System Feels Rigged: A 180-Year PatternLife expectancy is stalling across the English-speaking world. History says that signal has appeared before — and what followed was reform or rupture.