Me when I live in a society that caters to my every while: yesss haha yesss
Me when the same society caters to someone elses whims: this sucks
Me when I live in a society that caters to my every while: yesss haha yesss
Me when the same society caters to someone elses whims: this sucks
From the linked opinion letter to the paper:
I really enjoy the ending
“Those fuckin’ 64 year old whipper-snappers…!!”
Holy out of touchness. If they ever spoke in good faith to someone under 40, they’d know a huge swath of the unemployed population is INVOLUNTARILY unemployed. No one is hiring. We treat employment like a moral imperative, but we put no pressure on our so-called “job creators” to create jobs.
I know this one 90 year old that ran a marathon in my building. If you were just used to walking all your life, you would be able to walk at 90
One anecdotal observation does not mean that all people aged 90 who walked or ran throughout life will be able to keep doing so as they age. I know people in their 80s and younger who were active their whole lives and can barely get around. Two of them have Parkinsons. Six of them have had knee replacements. One of them has COPD so debilitating that he has to breathe in extra oxygen 24/7 – including during the hour he spends every day on his in-home tread mill which he has used since he was in his 50s (he was also a hiker, camper, canoer, etc., but he also used the treadmill whenever not in the wilds, and still does).
The editorial writer is a fool, but please don’t fall into the trap of presuming ‘those other people’ did something wrong, be it a failure to exercise or a failure to work enough.
Those are all diseases though, its not an intrinsic quality to being 90. Yes, you’re more likely to get them as you get older, but again, its something that pops up for some people. Society is designed around making you inactive as hell.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10360303/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197457217302057
The rate of mobility affecting ailments is roughly 30% of people beyond age 70. Regular walking results in better prognosis and extended lifespan for all groups outside of someone with say, a heart ailment. Its better to have a society that is designed for more activity as that directly results in increased lifespans. Its also important to have stations be accessible of course, too many buses, trains, and trams don’t allow at grade wheelchair access. Some stations don’t even have elevators.
I agree! Thank you for coming back with data, and I’m sure we’ll agree that if a 1/4th of those over 70 have mobility issues, we should not blanket-blame the whole lot for personal failings. Sure, most of them probably /should/ have exercised more, but a good chunk got dealt a bad hand. I don’t want to blame the elderly for bad health. I want to blame the editorialist for bad reasoning.
Idk I’m just old as shit and hate it when someone about my age goes on and on about their problems that are 99% lifestyle related. Like they’re more able bodied than me and it pisses me the fuck off cause I did a lot of work to avoid keeling over decades earlier, meanwhile they’re just annoyed they have to walk at all cause its boring for them or something.