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Some people think that having a set retirement age (e.g. 65 years) for everybody, regardless of occupation, is unfair. They believe that certain workers deserve to retire and receive a pension at an earlier age. • Do you agree or disagree? • Which types of workers do you think should benet from early retirement?

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Having a retirement age set for everybody could be fair for most
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workers, but unfair for some categories. Some types of work,
such
 as manual ones or those which require high concentration, should not be done
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 people over a certain age.
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, I agree with the assumption that
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 spent many years doing those activities should get a pension earlier than others. Other than deserving that, I think that it is
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 since some occupations involve a good level of alertness. Regarding the specific types of workers, I would distinguish between physical and intellectual jobs. As for the first ones, there are activities that, in spite of someone's
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 and good shape, are very demanding. As a matter of fact, men and women who spent many years lifting weights or digging caves deserve to stop working in advance compared to clerks and white collars.
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, some jobs requiring to be constantly focused and extremely careful, like pilots or surgeons, should not be done for too long. On the whole,
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 age ought to be decided depending both on the characteristics of work and on the total years of activity.
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