• Cabrio@lemmy.world
      83·
      11 months ago

      My tips for surviving beyond middle age.

      Move to a country with socialised healthcare and reasonable unemployment systems.

      Develop a mental illness, you’re 36 so you probably have a couple already.

      Apply for disability and reduce your workload to 20 hours a week.

      Have your parents die so you can have a chance at owning a house so you have somewhere to die other than hospice.

      Kids are a double edged sword, kill you now, look after you later. Might be better financially to not bother, as you’ll have to go back to full time work just for a chance to ensure they don’t grow up neglected, and if they do there goes your retirement.

      • electrogamerman@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        Have your parents die? So murder your parents?

        Also Kids are not a double edge sword. You are not supposed to have kids, so they take care of you when you are old. That’s just a recipe for them growing up neglected.

      • phaeton83@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        Countries with socialized healthcare and reasonable unemployment systems aren’t letting poor Americans in.

        • Cabrio@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          Don’t worry, depending which way the election swings you’ll probably have a legitimate reason to seek asylum.

    • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      112·
      11 months ago

      0-18 young

      18-20 unable to fit in

      20-30 everything gets worse

      30-60 everything gets worse but you are used to it (also you are basically a oldtimer with 30)

      60-💀 waiting for 💀

  • julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    13·
    11 months ago

    A litte off topic, but still interesting: What you are referring to is the life expectancy at birth. Your life expectancy actually increases as you get older, since you already survived and the people who already died are not factored in anymore.

    https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

    So according to that table when you are born your life expectancy is 74.12, but when you already made it to 50 it rises to 78.33 (current age + life expectancy from the table).

    • niktEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      It’s also higher in just about every developed country other than the United States.

    • johnthebeboptist@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      Cue Bee Gees “I started a joke”, or not, that song is super depressing. Low made it even more depressing, just in case someone wants to check it out.