return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhat's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?message-squaremessage-square251linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square251linkfedilink
minus-squarematthurtme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoYour life isn’t going to get better. Those old “It gets better.” campaigns used to seriously piss me off. You are a slave to crapitalism until you die
minus-squareBeangut@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoBold of you to assume it’s going to stop after I die, fully expect to be reanimated and used as cheap labour at this rate.
minus-squareNailbar@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoMy life got better as I got older, but I don’t live in the States, so maybe that’s a factor.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI’ve got good news for you!
minus-square5too@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago…huh. That’s kinda exciting, but I’m curious if that’s still accurate. …then again, I’m also hanging out at the bottom right now :p
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agohttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/national-institute-economic-review/article/happiness-and-ageresolving-the-debate/7E765E7E32A488E1FF5EE735039DD6C0
minus-square5too@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI think I’m mapping the negations of negations correctly - that link says not only is it still current, but seems to be very nearly universal?
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThat about seems like the age you start truly internalizing “Lol all these things they told me were important, aren’t. And I don’t care lol.” We have to spend so much time in that state of dissonance, deprogramming ourselves, realizing their best interests are not in ours.
minus-squareDr. Bob@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoSo dementia sets in around 42??!???!
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI’ve got good news for you!
minus-squaremonotremata@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI mean, redraw this graph as “happiness” vs “year of birth” and it’ll look way less optimistic!
minus-squarematthurtme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThank you. This actually does help.
Your life isn’t going to get better. Those old “It gets better.” campaigns used to seriously piss me off. You are a slave to crapitalism until you die
Bold of you to assume it’s going to stop after I die, fully expect to be reanimated and used as cheap labour at this rate.
My life got better as I got older, but I don’t live in the States, so maybe that’s a factor.
I’ve got good news for you!
…huh. That’s kinda exciting, but I’m curious if that’s still accurate.
…then again, I’m also hanging out at the bottom right now :p
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/national-institute-economic-review/article/happiness-and-ageresolving-the-debate/7E765E7E32A488E1FF5EE735039DD6C0
I think I’m mapping the negations of negations correctly - that link says not only is it still current, but seems to be very nearly universal?
Correct
That about seems like the age you start truly internalizing “Lol all these things they told me were important, aren’t. And I don’t care lol.”
We have to spend so much time in that state of dissonance, deprogramming ourselves, realizing their best interests are not in ours.
So dementia sets in around 42??!???!
I’ve got good news for you!
I mean, redraw this graph as “happiness” vs “year of birth” and it’ll look way less optimistic!
Thank you. This actually does help.