Yeah, not the point made earlier. Keep moving that goalpost.

 

You ever think your assessment of for every hardship there are multiple people sitting on a million dollar estate may be a bit skewed?

Maybe mine is skewed the other way as I will probably be the first person in my family ever to have a net worth over $1M and even as a mid 40s Delta NB captain I'm not quite there yet (excluding insurance policy) if you count the balance of my 401k and equity in my house, but I'll be there eventually.

But based on my family and most others where I grew up, I am a 95th or higher percentile outlier on the right side of the income/assets bell curve.

My goal was to never go back to poverty. Been there, done that. Was homeless as a child when my dad got sick and couldn't work for 6 months. But a hell of a lot more Americans live closer to the poverty line than 2nd year FO pay at any major.

I seriously doubt there are two millionaires for every person in the situation my mom is (collecting SS based off my dad's earnings) or my cousin will be.

 

What actual world do you live on?

 

Another piece of history. In 1900, the average male in the US died at age 46. Feel free to look it up, if you do not believe me.

Life expectancy has gone up a whole lot.

 

Small point but those stats are skewed by infant mortality. If you made it to 6 you probably would make it to 70. 16% of infants died in those days before vaccines and other improved medical care became available.

 

That is not a small point - it is a huge point. Most people think the average/mode/median ???? ( I should have paid more attention in statistics ) would have 46 in the above example but as you pointed out it was not.

On another subject I keep seeing Pilots post age 60, 65, 67, is discrimination. Well it is, but there is a difference between discrimination and illegal discrimination. Any age related requirement by definition is discriminating. If it is codified in law, by definition it is legal discrimination. Think 18 to vote, 21 to purchase alcohol etc - plenty of legal discrimination.

I have said it before and will repeat it - I am agnostic on the age rule. I don't see it making a big difference either way. Age 65 hit subsequent to DBs being cancelled along with huge pay cuts so many were financially compelled to continue working - I don't see that here.

Scoop

 

Agreed. My grandmother’s family had 2 of the 8 siblings die in childhood. That was typical.

In 1900 the top three leading causes of death in the US were the flu, TB, and diarrhea. As improved medical care reduced them, and people lived longer, heart and cancer emerged as the leading causes of death.

 

Interestingly, mostly due to antibiotics.

Lose those, and the mortality rate skyrockets again.

 

Yes, I seriously doubt, without even trying to google it, that the majority of males died in their mid-40's.

If you survived early childhood, you had the potential to to live to a ripe old age. They also benefited from healthy living... organic food, lots of exercise. Yeah they had booze and tobacco but so do we.

If you're looking for actual life expectancy of 40-something, you need to go back to 10,000+ years to the hunter-gatherer era.

 

What is the point of all that? How does it increase safety? A dental exam? A chest x ray?