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Today's 5-year-olds will likely live to 100

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Re: Today's 5-year-olds will likely live to 100

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Post by 0xDEF »

passwordoops wrote: post #18

Unless of course there's a another global scale war fought by rival superpowers on multiple fronts. But the odds of that happening in the next decade are pretty low, right? Right?...

China and the US depend too much on eachother to fight a large scale war.

Russia's geopolitical ambitions has currently been limited to forcefully annexing Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Odessa from Ukraine. They will most likely get Donetsk and Luhansk and fail at permanently annexing the other regions.

Neither will lead to a large scale global war.

Re: Today's 5-year-olds will likely live to 100

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Post by mfer »

This is not likely.

Life expectancy is going down while chronic disease is going up. Most of it has to do with lifestyle in ways the average person isn't aware of.

The health care system is more capable than ever before. But, lifestyles that are poor to long term health are taking the trend in the opposite direction.

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Post by terran57 »

Given the advancements in medical science and longevity research, this is entirely possible. But, the way the world in which we currently live is evolving, it may not be desirable to live to be 100 (or for that matter 90, 80, 70... depending on how things degrade)

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Post by jmyeet »

As long as they get lucky and have a good job, inherit enough wealth from their family to afford housing, don't get diabetes, don't live near any freight railroads, grow up in a rich enough community so they didn't grow up drinking water delivered in lead pipes and didn't grow up in a house with asbestos then yes, they may live to 100.

Re: Today's 5-year-olds will likely live to 100

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Post by melling »

dnsco wrote: post #5

The optimism reminds me of all of the "In the year 2000, cars will fly!" of yore.

100 doesn’t sound extremely optimistic.

Jimmy Carter is 98. Kissinger is 100. Munger is 99. Buffett is 92, Dick Van Dyke is 97, Mel Brooks is 96,…

The body can last well into the late 90’s. It’s probably just a matter of treating people who get heart disease, cancer(s), etc that will get more people there.

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