Lol, 53 years old.

When I went to a eye doctor last year. The guy was trying to convince me that I would be blind by the time I was 50 and that was "normal and happens to everyone" lol.

Everyone acts like 50 years old is so old now, is that because were dying younger and younger?

https://www.statnews.com/2023/11/13/life-expectancy-men-women/

But the widening gap should concern the U.S., Yan said, because it shows that baseline factors accounting for men’s lower longevity — genetics, men’s higher vulnerability to chronic disease — aren’t the sole reason for the difference in life expectancies.

“The opioid epidemic, mental health, and chronic metabolic disease are certainly front and center in the data that we see here, explaining why there’s this widening life expectancy gap by gender, as well as the overall drop in life expectancy,” said Yan. Men have higher mortality rates from all three conditions compared to women.

In addition, Yan notes, “a lot of these drivers of worsening life expectancy in particular for men are preventable causes of death.” Even Covid-19 could be considered a preventable cause of death in the time since vaccines have become available, he said.

And then to read articles like this....

https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/raising-social-securitys-retirement-age-would-cut-benefits-for-all-new

Some policymakers, such as those on the Republican Study Committee, have proposed to raise Social Security’s full retirement age to 70 and beyond.[1] Raising the retirement age cuts benefits for all new retirees — that is, those claiming Social Security benefits for the first time. These cuts could be deep, and they would fall hardest on lower- and middle-income beneficiaries because they rely most heavily on Social Security benefits. Moreover, they have not seen the life expectancy gains that higher-income people have experienced and that are often used as the rationale for raising the retirement age.

Holy fuck, are we ready to put our leaders in jail yet?