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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 29 August 2015 07:52:03PM 5 points [-]

The Roman army conscripted young men who served for 25 years after which they retired -- they were released from the military service and given a noticeable sum of money and a plot of land.

With the expectation that they'd start a family and farm said plot of land. This is not the same as what we normally think of as retirement.

Comment author: Lumifer 31 August 2015 12:30:11AM 2 points [-]

I am not sure what you normally think of as retirement. Buying a condo in Florida and spending the last few functioning brain cells on bingo?

Comment author: DanArmak 31 August 2015 05:17:12PM 3 points [-]

Retirement implies not working in order to earn money to survive. If the Romans in question had to work their farms, they weren't retired. But if e.g. they were given enough money to buy and keep slaves who did all of the work, then they could fairly be said to have retired.

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