Comment on US Question. Will the people that have to wait until 70 to get Social Security ever get what they paid in to it back out before they die since men's life expectancy is only 77 now?

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Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

That figure is average life expectancy. IE 50% of US man are expected to reach 77.

I can’t access the full paper that this is in reference too, so I’m not sure how they calculate it… but isn’t life expectancy usually the mean age of death? I would expect the distribution to have a left skew from people who die young, which should mean that more than 50% of US men are expected to reach 77.

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