I suppose it would be possible to work out how many days I have been on this earth .. it's only Mathematics, after all. 81 years x 365 days is 27565; add 20 to include leap years, which would mean 27585 up to my last birthday; 9 months from February to November (9x30=270) but February is only 28 days and others have 31, not 30 .. and it's all too complicated for me this morning! Let's say it's close to 28000 days that I've been taking up space.
I didn't work for the first 18 years of that and I've been retired about 15 years. That's 33 years when I was unproductive. And I'm probably fairly typical. I wonder whether there is some government department somewhere who are calculating this level of cost benefit analysis. It would be interesting to see the results and I wonder what governments would do with the information.
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