getting out and about, mixing with others, having contact with young children in some way would probably prolong people's lives.
one just cannot depend on the free market to take people's frailties into account, because it exploits them, it doesn't work around them.
If there is no income replacement system, then people have to work at regular full time jobs until they keel over. The idea that "we don't do manual labor any more so we can do it until age 75" or "people live longer now so they can work longer" are disconnected from reality. Increasing life expectancy by reducing the neonatal death rate, which is what is happening, has little to do with people working longer.
We as a society have tended to equate any type of effort with economic survival, so we tend to overlook the other aspects of activity which can bring benefits.
She reads up on new techniques, attends courses, and is really, really into anything that is associated with it.
I mean, seriously, if you were going to choose your interactions with others, how you achieved your feeling of accomplishment or choose where and how to move you wouldn't do any of them in the way most jobs demand.
I've avoided having a real job for decades now for exactly that reason. And because I can, just about.
