Behold, your life's work compressed into a single red line on a graph.
In a recent report, British bank HSBC released this graph showing the productivity of the average person during their lifetime.
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The graph divides life up into five economic periods beginning with 'start' and ending with 'death'.
According to the data, people experience a thrilling rise in economic productivity during their 20s, which slows at age 30 into a steady rise to the 'absolute peak' about age 50.