• Anticorp@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      11 months ago

      That’s exactly what it says. It says “the average American died at age 51”.

      • angrystego@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        11 months ago

        I mean the graph we’re talking about, the one with retirement. If the retirement age was higher and you count in the data from the other graph, that makes it even worse. It means that many people worked their asses off right to their death, without being able to retire at all.