That's not true. There were always different roles for older people. They didn't just keep doing the same job their whole lives.
replyAnd people who were injured to the point where they couldn't "work" anymore were still cared for by their community.
replyI mean, that just isn't true. There are amazon tribes today where they just send them down the river to die... your ideas are a disney-fied version of a false past that never existed.
replyUnspecified Amazon tribes don't represent the lion's share of historical treatment of aging populations. One negative example doesn't undermine the point.
replyThey're right. We've found remains that show how thousands of years ago people took care of people that would have died without external assistance.
replyhttps://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-patagonian-hunter-disa...