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Why don’t more politicians retire? A medical anthropologist explains how the US could benefit from a mandatory retirement age (theconversation.com)

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 61 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Social security retirement age. Same with federal employees. A government of people needs to be composed of people who will be impacted by its policies.

[–] bcoffy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah but that just incentivizes them to move the retirement age up