• @Cabrio@lemmy.world
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      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.

  • LousyCornMuffins
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    162 years ago

    Really easy. Go by 30s.

    0-30: young

    30-60: middle aged

    60+: elderly

    So yeah, 50 is middle aged, it’s just not the start.

    • @CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
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      112 years 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 💀

      • emmanuel_car
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        22 years ago

        also you are basically a oldtimer with 30

        If your history weren’t filled with English speaking content I’d say “found the German”

  • @julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    132 years 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).

    • @nikt@lemmy.ca
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      62 years ago

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

  • Drusas
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    112 years ago

    Joke’s on them, I became disabled at 33.

    Oh wait, the joke was on me.

    • 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.