In the west all the hard working baby boomers and generation X will have long since died out, leaving the millennial generation enjoying early inheritance based retirement and generation snowflake completely in charge, with lazy generation Z snoozing their way into another world war. Meanwhile the fastest growing middle classes in the east will be itching to take over, after decades of careful preparation. Skynet meanwhile is patiently waiting for the singularity event horizon.
Will if one thing's clear in 20 years time the millennials will find some good excuses to hate the younger generations, because every generation seems to find a way to do that.
Will if one thing's clear in 20 years time the millennials will find some good excuses to hate the younger generations, because every generation seems to find a way to do that.
As this happens we will see Speaker Pelosi celebrate her 99th birthday and yet another successful election to Speaker of the House.
No doubt President Ocasio-Cortez will congratulate the Speaker of this moment in her state of the union address. Speaker Pelosi will be overheard on a live microphone complaining about the millenials.
Wait a minute--I'm 69 now, which easily makes me a baby boomer. You're telling me I won't live to 89? It's certainly possible, but it's also highly likely that (barring some sort of pandemic) many of us baby boomers (including, I hope, yours truly) will still be with you. You'll have to go another ten years to get rid of most of us.
I hope you personally have a long life. That said, enough baby boomers have been dying that just last year, 18 years after they went out of production, millennials became the larges age cohort. Keep in mind that you are in the middle of the boomer generation, and the beginning of your generation already hit the expected lifespan. In 20 years, according to actuarial tables, the boomer cohort will be quite small.
The comment at the bottom of the/. page right now is oddly appropriate: "'The sixties were good to you, weren't they?' -- George Carlin." Otoh, as others have said, if you can remember the 60s, you weren't there.
But yeah, you're right: funerals of people I know are becoming more common.
basically yes. Currently the average lifespan for males in the US looks to be 76 (81 for females) [statista.com], so if you make it to 89 you'll be above average. Not sure how many standard deviations that would be.
Keep your fingers crossed for cheap medical care, because a lot of folks are going to be wanting it.
The life expectancy for someone who's currently 69 is 83 or 84 years. I'm pretty sure that means half of you won't be around by age 83, and less than that by 89. Am I missing how life expectancies work?
What you're missing is that some of us boomers have high expectations for ourselves:-).
All seriousness aside, I think what I was reacting to in the original post is the statement that "*all* the hard working baby boomers...will have long since died out" (emphasis mine). Probably a lot of us--indeed most--will have; but I doubt that all of us will have, and certainly not long since (much less will the gen Xers have all run out). After all, we're like the children at Lake Wobegone, all above average.
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Will if one thing's clear in 20 years time the millennials will find some good excuses to hate the younger generations, because every generation seems to find a way to do that.
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Will if one thing's clear in 20 years time the millennials will find some good excuses to hate the younger generations, because every generation seems to find a way to do that.
As this happens we will see Speaker Pelosi celebrate her 99th birthday and yet another successful election to Speaker of the House.
No doubt President Ocasio-Cortez will congratulate the Speaker of this moment in her state of the union address. Speaker Pelosi will be overheard on a live microphone complaining about the millenials.
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Wait a minute--I'm 69 now, which easily makes me a baby boomer. You're telling me I won't live to 89? It's certainly possible, but it's also highly likely that (barring some sort of pandemic) many of us baby boomers (including, I hope, yours truly) will still be with you. You'll have to go another ten years to get rid of most of us.
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I hope you personally have a long life. That said, enough baby boomers have been dying that just last year, 18 years after they went out of production, millennials became the larges age cohort. Keep in mind that you are in the middle of the boomer generation, and the beginning of your generation already hit the expected lifespan. In 20 years, according to actuarial tables, the boomer cohort will be quite small.
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The comment at the bottom of the /. page right now is oddly appropriate: "'The sixties were good to you, weren't they?' -- George Carlin." Otoh, as others have said, if you can remember the 60s, you weren't there.
But yeah, you're right: funerals of people I know are becoming more common.
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basically yes. Currently the average lifespan for males in the US looks to be 76 (81 for females) [statista.com], so if you make it to 89 you'll be above average. Not sure how many standard deviations that would be.
Keep your fingers crossed for cheap medical care, because a lot of folks are going to be wanting it.
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The life expectancy for someone who's currently 69 is 83 or 84 years. I'm pretty sure that means half of you won't be around by age 83, and less than that by 89. Am I missing how life expectancies work?
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What you're missing is that some of us boomers have high expectations for ourselves :-).
All seriousness aside, I think what I was reacting to in the original post is the statement that "*all* the hard working baby boomers...will have long since died out" (emphasis mine). Probably a lot of us--indeed most--will have; but I doubt that all of us will have, and certainly not long since (much less will the gen Xers have all run out). After all, we're like the children at Lake Wobegone, all above average.
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What hard working boomers? Boomers worked fewer hours and made more money than any other generation in US history.