 Okay? If people were fortunate to reach age 65, birthday back then, they had a couple more years before the batteries wore out. I'll use batteries wore out. It was not a time to go back to college or fall in love again. If you were widowed or divorced, you didn't need that much money saved because you're only going to live a little while. Now, I look back to 1935. People probably didn't have much in retirement to begin with. That's why they started social. One of the reasons they started social security.