Wait, your retirement age is less than the average lifespan?
This average is probably including deaths from accidents and illness.
Sure, but statistically speaking you’re as prone to dying from either as anyone else.
Mean Average is a dumb way to track lifespan as many people (still) die in childhood.
Median is much more representative.
Good luck finding a median life expectancy for my country.
middle aged would be around 36.
I didn’t come here to be insulted.
Spitting truth
I like the energy, but this is still a dumb take, even if it’s common. Where TF did the idea that middle= midpoint come from? So does “middle age” last just an instant?
We have young, and elderly, so what do we call the span in the middle when you’re neither of those?
I’m scared shitless that I will make it to 100.
This. No one realizes that your probably not gonna make it to 100 in perfect health. If your body doesn’t go, it will be your mind. Either way, it does not sound appealing.
If nothing else, the arthritis has gotten so bad, you wanna off yourself anyways.
Hard pass.
I’m 37 and already broken.
My back is killing me, the sciatica makes sitting down hard. My ankle is fucked from too many injuries doing shit like tough mudder because when you’re young you’re invincible. Top that off with an immune disorder and asthma and it’ll be a miracle if I make it to 50 with a good quality of life.
I don’t wanna get to the point where it seems miserable just to, like, walk or something. I don’t mind taking heart medication, walking with a cane, stuff like that, but I don’t wanna live in near constant agony just trying to get through the day.
The worst part about this is that it reminds me that I’m close to having lived the statistical half of my life, damn.
Y’all get out of here. Middle age starts at 40. Don’t at me.
Nah dude, the middle ages start at 476
We should be retiring at 50. This is bullshit.
We should be building a society where the concept of retiring is alien because the entire point of living isn’t to work.
Wr should be able to retire whenever we want. Fuck work.
You can retire at any age you want lol. Most people didn’t live in their means nor did they save for retirement starting at 18/22. This was possible 30 years ago. These days? Not so much.
It doesn’t mean you can’t leverage it way better than most though. Starting a Roth IRA saves more money than even paying off your house loan in half the time. That’s saving an extra $70,000 for most. Putting into retirement early triples that lol.
Compound interest via stock/bonds is a bullshit money generating hack made up by rich people to get richer though. The poors literally get their dregs from riding on their coattails then acting like they invested well. Nobody wants to admit that you should be able to retire indefinitely by what amounts to hoarding above a certain dollar threshold though lol.
The average life expectancy of men in the US is 73 (it was 74 pre-COVID).
My entire life I heard 40 is middle aged because life expectancy is somewhere around 80. 40 is when the mid-life crisis starts happening as well.
Uhm, retirement was invented for the elderly who can’t really work on the fields/processing plants anymore. Work changed and people got older since then.
Work is now driving people to age faster due to stress.
I’ve removed myself as much as possible from the economic system. I am trapped, but I’m having fun trying to wake up. ⏰️ Maybe when I can’t move much, which will be soon, I’ll have to roll into a ditch or something 🤷
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I’ve always viewed middle aged as 40s
Awshit. I’m nearly middle-aged then.
We have robots. It’s the future now. We should be retiring at 85 while the robots live in luxurious sky cities.
I don’t disagree, but people get confused by average lifespan because it includes babies that die. If you live to 60, in the USA you’re expected to live another 21.4 years (almost 82). https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/05/long-life-does-not-always-mean-a-healthy-life-in-old-age.html
And that number is still an average. But I get it, 50 still isn’t the middle.
