Allegedly my great grandfather was building a deck at the age of 90.

This might also be survivorship bias.

I’d like to say people need purpose and challenges. This is probably why rates of depression tend to be much lower in “poor” countries where people have to depend on each other more.

In the west everything is an abstraction. If you would imagine a baker in a small town, if she doesn’t feel like baking that day, the town doesn’t get bread.

Therefore, everyone in the town has an incentive to actually check on her, and get her back on her feet.

In the modern west who cares, surely another bakery will provide.

I believe automation will reduce the need for human labor very very soon.

We can all find meaning in arts, dance and play. If not just the gift of this experience.

Or we can point fingers as no one has work or money