I still don’t know how open flames for cigarettes and big hair co-existed.

Taiga became popular in 2022. Definitely looking forward to seeing that one around. So many Ice Queen jokes.

oh no! Anyways…

And you don’t see that as the start of a slope if you were to graph the chance of death at that age? It starts jumping precipitously after 65. And the new age of 67 just gets worse. I’m not sure what you’re actual argument here is. The point of the graph is to not grind away your good years and find yourself trying to pack a lifetime of experiences into the years where you start playing hide and seek with Death. Your data doesn’t show anything meaningfully different to the average person. If half of us are going to get thanos snapped, you’re not going to call that something minor, easily avoided.

The Americans grinding 60-90 hours a week.

Oh we’ve had grind culture for a long time. It just didn’t apply to finance yet.

Interwar Germany wasn’t meant to work. It was a collective punishment over a war the entire nobility of Europe jumped into with all the fervor of a kid with a new wargame.

Germany wasn’t great at spying… In world war 2 the British basically kept German agents as pets.

Honestly, you’d need to fix World War 1 and uhhh… Good luck. Hitler was just the drug addict the bitter world war 1 veterans and conservatives rallied around. There were multiple options. They all had similar stories, massive PTSD, using drugs and propaganda to cope.

So I’m hearing we need to go to the negotiation room of the treaty of Versailles, and then send a predator drone to Italy. Sorry future Italians.

I mean, I’m good with giving up Boeing…

But honestly, the profit motive doesn’t fit everywhere. It can certainly fit in places like retail, with good safety nets. (Like basic government food available at cost or less for people who need it)

In infrastructure where cost cutting costs more maintenance money, at best? It really doesn’t belong.

Except they cover the period we’re worried about. Everyone figures anything after 80 is a gift. The oldest boomers are 78. You have 2 years on that chart that might be questionable. Seeing the die off start at 65 to 75 is all within the “new” paradigm.

The year is 2289.

We know how Dyson spheres work

That star is just literally free energy

But we blew up a solar system and wiped out a developing race one time and we stopped using it.

Imagine if hunters had stopped using fire?!?

Fukushima showed us the truth, Nuclear Safety is incompatible with capitalism. I don’t care to find out what other time bombs we build into future plants.

That’s the baby boom moving up the chart. It’s 1980, they’re 15-35. You can clearly see the normal population before the baby boom and it’s fall off.

You’re not wrong but you’re not right. Life expectancy is an average. Here’s a 1980 chart that shows the same trend.

Also baby boomers are 60-78 years old. You can clearly see the die off happening within their generation.

Mostly it’s for areas that aren’t even in the developing category yet. Once you’re developing you’re talking about 9-5 work with less pay and benefits than in the West. But traditional work doesn’t do office/factory hours. That means periods of lots of work and periods with little work where you live off the previous gains.

A lot of “third world” countries don’t work the hours we do.

This is a good place to remind everyone that if you wait for social security retirement in America you have a really good chance of dying shortly after that retirement. The great die off starts at 65.

And yes you can live healthier to have better odds of getting higher on that chart. But you cannot add young years. So if your idea of Europe includes skiing in the alps or something then you need to go before you retire. Don’t let the idle rich dictate your life. They aren’t waiting around.

No you’re not

Yes to all of those.

Source, my time in the Army.