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kleinbl00  ·  2493 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The World Economic Forum presents: The Death of Retirement

Strauss and Howe based their cycle on the Saeculum, the interval of time coined by the Etruscans to describe the length of a human lifetime. The Romans adopted it but decided that 110 years was the magic number, rather than 80. The Stoics definitely picked stuff up from the Etruscans.