Free Market
Author:
William Diehl
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The Free Market 15, no. 2 (February 1997) Before the mid 1950s, there was no “retirement” as we use the term today. A 1950 poll showed most workers aspired to work for as long as possible. Quitting was for the disabled. Life did not offer “twilight years,” two decades of uninterrupted leisure courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Just since 1960, the