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Comment author: TheOtherDave 10 September 2013 07:38:12PM 2 points [-]

It's also a lot easier when you can afford assistance.

Comment author: kalium 10 September 2013 11:02:12PM 0 points [-]

Wealth isn't an automatic consequence of age (or of a PhD for that matter).

Comment author: TheOtherDave 11 September 2013 12:05:32AM 2 points [-]

Absolutely true.
Neither is the ability to perform physically demanding tasks an automatic consequence of youth. We're talking about expected values, not guarantees.
And I would certainly agree that someone who doesn't expect their career to increase their earning power over time would have a completely different expected-value calculation around impromptublue's suggestion than someone who does.