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It's sad to think that humanity may have peaked already.
The best time to be alive in the west (unless you're a minority, because we HAVE made advances in accepting people for who they are) was probably more than half a century ago.
Sure, technology gives us lots of cool stuff. But it's been discovered that it's more profitable to keep us fat and addicted, and we're perfectly content to let all the profits go to the top 0.1 to 1%.
Humanity is just stuck in a rut until the billionaires are overturned and we can get back on track attempting to improve life again. Those with money are killing us all bit by bit
bit by bit
Enjoy it while you can. It'll be a lot by a lot the moment automation makes us truly redundant
I been saying for years. Millennials will be the first generation where the expected life span will go down. And that's due to generational inequality. Our parents are literally killing us.
the boomers/ silent generation(some of them are in congress still) are the ones. followed by the olders gen-xers.,
Millennial here. I have had several unaddressed health issues for at least 5 years. I can't afford to go through another diagnosis/ treatment process because I'm still recovering, financially, from the unrelated health issues I had diagnosed and partially fixed with surgery a few years ago. I also haven't seen a dentist in at least 8 years. I work way too much and I'm barely keeping my head above water despite doing everything right and living frugally. I'm hoping whatever is going on with me isn't something terminal, and that I can last long enough to move to a country that supports its people. The US sure as shit isn't it.
i have dental related things to, right now i just paid out pocket for a limited examination from emergency dentists not cheap(almost 300 for a emergency dentist, and now they want do a full exam and cleaning for almost twice of the limited exam(not worth it since my old dentist which it so-so doesnt charge that much. because im not covered by state provided care enough because i make just enough not to get covered by them.
Yeah, move. Takes about 3 months to most countries in America to get a residency visa
you arnt making sense, visas are not easy to get in any country.
No. US Americans can get visas pretty easy in most countries in America.
Just budget for $1,000 and 3 months.
Makes sense considering our parents and their parents completely fucked over the world.
The hippies were better than the generation before them.
It might be incrementally getting better.
its going to be interesting to see the Xers who were raised on a lot more processed food than previous generations.
I think this is it. Motives can be debated, but I’m convinced the food supply is the real problem - not lack of universal health care. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. What the boomers ate is considered ‘boutique’ or ‘organic’. If we could go back to that food supply chain, I think many of our ailments would go away.
Life expectancy is already declining. This isn’t just a “new generation” thing. From Gen X onward we’re all doing worse.
millenial here, living with fibromyalgia for 30 years before finding a doctor who actually believed i am in constant pain. also have a joint disorder that is probably ehler danlos but have been refused diagnostics by every specialist within 3 hrs of me bc the list of qualifications to just be TESTED are completely out of reach. i have debated paying for a dna test outta pocket but it is too expensive so i will have to just live with the pain with no treatments.
btw, apparently rheumatologists "dont treat fibro anymore" so my management there is pain medication from my ARNP. lol. america is a fucking joke
Millennial here. My best friend got multiple myeloma at 38 and I have had endometriosis and incurable interstitial cystitis for nearly 20 years, which if you go to a doctor they just tell you you're insane have these torture methods with no anesthetics for "diagnosis" but there's no cure so good luck anyway.
I'll probably die by suicide before 60 rather than become homeless due to being unable to work from pain. I'm not sure my best friend will make it that far either. I don't really see a point to putting money into a 401k instead of bonds since I might have to live off that money sooner than expected..
Recently born generations??????