100, here I cum

I'm scared shitless that I will make it to 100.

We have robots. It's the future now. We should be retiring at 85 while the robots live in luxurious sky cities.

We should be retiring at 50. This is bullshit.

middle aged would be around 36.

I didn't come here to be insulted.

According to my kids:

0-30 is young.

31-60 is middle aged.

61-90 is old.

Over 90 is fucking old.

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.

Thanks for starting my day with giving me a midlife crisis.

eh, you're free to retire in your mid 30s. it's easy. i retired in my late 30s, then went back to work again when I ran out of money a few years later. it was nice, i look forward to retiring again.

Avg life span is 80+ in most countries..

I've never heard anybody suggest that 50 is middle aged, usually it's traditionally been 30, or nowadays with life expectancies being higher, 36 is spot on.

Anyway, we're all going to work until we're dead, to keep the rich ruling class fed. There's no escape.

I thought 50 was the middle of your adult life, 20-80 ish years old

I've always viewed middle aged as 40s

Wait, your retirement age is less than the average lifespan?

Right cuz that’s why people work til 65. Totally just a choice/s

I guess the point is you're middle aged in regards to your contribution to society. First 15-20 years of your life you pretty much just "take", while the following 50ish you are expected to chip in. In those terms, 50 sounds about right as being referred to as "middle aged".

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.

The average life expectancy of men in the US is 73 (it was 74 pre-COVID).

If they told you 36 is middle age you would be less inclined to live

According to some module I had to take yesterday, 18-44 is “young adult” and 45 to something is “middle aged.”

Since when do people think 50 is middle-aged? To me it's always been 30-something years old

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?

The problem is that we are living longer and healthier than even before and the trend is to keep on rising.

What the real problem is that allowing a person to actually live is troublesome for the current system in place, as in if you do not produce, you are not valuable.

But you are.

The worst part about this is that it reminds me that I'm close to having lived the statistical half of my life, damn.

So, what's the average life expectancy of people who live past the age of 30?

Y'all get out of here. Middle age starts at 40. Don't at me.

Some say your life doesn't begin until your mid 20s.

37 isn't middle-aged? I had no idea!

Awshit. I'm nearly middle-aged then.

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.

Nice X

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 🤷