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This is the worst kind of lazy, I-got-mine, rose-colored-glasses thinking. One step away from the preposterous claims we saw a few years ago about how nobody is really 'poor' anymore because cell phones and huge TVs.

I missed the note about the grinding cost-increases of college that people don't apparently need to work to pay for (and everyone apparently goes to!).

And the entry for the increasing deaths-of-despair rate that is turned the US life expectancy rate negative.

And the one for young folks' increasing need to delay what used to be normal young adult things, like home purchase and marriage. And...

I think what you mean is that, if you have money and are over 40, the world will cater to you. (And to be clear, I'm in that category, as are many here.)




Take a look at historical life expectancy in the US:

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/life...

About 10 years more than 1960.


Why are you fixated on 1960?

Try this: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm




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