return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agoWhat's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?message-squaremessage-square273linkfedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down11
arrow-up1167arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square273linkfedilink
minus-squarematthurtme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down5·4 days 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-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 days agoI’ve got good news for you!
minus-square5too@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days 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-up2·3 days agohttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/national-institute-economic-review/article/happiness-and-ageresolving-the-debate/7E765E7E32A488E1FF5EE735039DD6C0
minus-square5too@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days 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-squarematthurtme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoThank you. This actually does help.
minus-squaremonotremata@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoI mean, redraw this graph as “happiness” vs “year of birth” and it’ll look way less optimistic!
minus-squareMonkeMischief@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 days 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-up5·3 days agoSo dementia sets in around 42??!???!
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoI’ve got good news for you!
minus-squareLuminousLuddite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-23 days agodeleted by creator
minus-squareNailbar@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 days agoMy life got better as I got older, but I don’t live in the States, so maybe that’s a factor.
minus-squareBeangut@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days 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-squarematthurtme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoOof, bleak. I hope altered carbon doesn’t become a reality. Decent show though
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
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
Thank you. This actually does help.
I mean, redraw this graph as “happiness” vs “year of birth” and it’ll look way less optimistic!
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!
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My life got better as I got older, but I don’t live in the States, so maybe that’s a factor.
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.
Oof, bleak. I hope altered carbon doesn’t become a reality. Decent show though