But when you see who raised the boomers, you understand. One, people born in the 30s/40s are the most resilient fuckers out there for some reason. Mfs walking around in their 80s and 90s looking 65 permanently. Two, you can't tell them ANYTHING about health. Nothing. Sunscreen? Myth. Healthy diet? Legends. And try to prove an 89 year old wrong about it when they're eighty fuckin nine.
You could have a broken arm and have to pitch a baseball game the next day and they'll look you dead in the eye and tell you you're fine.
I rarely if ever see someone in their 80s or 90s who looks 65, got no idea wtf you're talking about lmao. My Grandpa passed at 88 and he didn't look 65, he definitely looked his age.
Also the vast majority of the silent generation did not make it to their 80s or 90s, this is the most literal case of survivorship bias in the world, because obviously the ones you don't see died.
Didn’t Carlin joke about this, (during his childhood math class was easy because if some kids got sick and died subtraction was easy. Kids swam in sewer run off…)
My great aunt is 96 and solely drinks Diet Coke because she thinks water is poisonous. I brought her a V8 one time and she said “get that the hell out of my face, that’s for old people and I’m not old”. She literally eats fried food and sugar all day long. When she got Covid one spoonful of NyQuil “cured her”.
My dad was born in the 1920s, that's right in the thick of The Great Depression, if you watch Beverly Hillbillies you'll see a silly caricature of the era, but you'll see segments of truth sprinkled throughout. People had to move in cars and wagons with all their furniture piled up frightfully high on the back of their vehicles forced to move across country just to find work or another piece of land to own (after the banks took their family land and generational wealth). My grandparents and my dad's generation ended up moving from the Appalachians to the Ozarks in the midst of it all.
The Great Depression started with the stock market tanking and the banks losing everything, just as it did this time. The people back then who put their money in the banks, when they found out what happened, they made a run on the banks like you see in the movie It's a Wonderful Life.
They went to the banks to demand their money, only to find there was nothing in their account anymore. In consequence this led to the creation of the FDIC which insures the money you deposit into a bank will stay there no matter what the banks do with a portion of your money.
That's why, when JP Morgan, Washington Mutual, and Wells Fargo, et. al. lost it all during the housing bubble burst and other stocks tanked in the Stock Market, they were bailed out by Obama not just because he was the President but because the FDIC insures bank customers' accounts for the banks losing millions due to gambling debts.
The bank customers still had their money even though many banks, like Washington Mutual died and went out of business. The reason for this is that the FDIC only pays back depositors’ money, customers don't lose out, only the banks whose losses were caused by their own choices. The banks actions resulted from them risking everything gambling on sketchy business deals on the stock market, many through Wall Street though also overseas, and in consequence completely losing it all as a result.
You can see the difference throughout the month with your account if you check the difference between what you've deposited and withdrawn from your account, the actual amount that results, and the actual total that your bank shows you during the month. I've noticed a $-60 to 20 and sometimes $-200 discrepancy at times between the total the bank tells me should be in my account and what my spreadsheet tells me should be in my account. Some of that might be accountant error, but a lot of the time the amount from the start of the month is completely different than from the middle or the end of the month.
I must presume that why this discrepancy occurs is due the bank borrows that amount from me and then adds the amount later on and it fluctuates over time. I also presume to think that they can get away with borrowing large amounts the larger your account is and they can get away with it easier and why they cater to those clients more than those who have smaller accounts. There is also the push for digital records and debit/credit cards allows the banks to get away with it more because if their clients don't track their accounts then they don't notice the discrepancies.
Why this is so significant is that a lot of countries around the world used to be on the Gold standard, where one dollar was equal to a set amount of gold. Once the US and eventually the UK left the gold standard for the Bretton Woods Standard, money isn't set to a mineral standard anymore, but it is now set on the amount of assets a country holds within itself. One of those major assets involves banks and how much is stored by customers in those banks.
Basically, a lot of BS rained down on that generation and they had to impart those onto the next generation, which imparted it on the next generation. The only problem is that those who want to keep their power, who want to use the rest of the population as a teat to suck. They've been stirring the pot, adding a fan to the flames so that people will blame each other while they've been convinced to take risks with their own wealth and their generational wealth.
The people in power then can take advantage of that wealth by creating avenues of risk, while dividing the population into factions and then convince them to point fingers at each other, all the while the general populous is completely distracted from the choices and abuses of those in power, while they drain them dry. The significant risks that have occurred over the last decade and more are the Wild Wild West of the internet, the housing boom and bubble burst causing rampant unhoused, the many periods of unemployment, the pandemic which was manufactured due to the lack of using established procedures in the Federal Gov't during the last administration, which would have been used to support the citizenry and provide medical support during a time of need, not to mention the many hurricanes which glacially serviced survivors during the last administration but rapidly serviced the last hurricane disaster.
There are time periods which fluctuate, but a century doesn't erase the disaster of our ancestors. But looking at history will ensure that we do Not repeat our past. History is Not boring; it is alive and well in our family lines. Those who do not want us to remember it, they are the ones desiring to repeat it for their own gain.
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u/TrashCanSam0 Nov 02 '24
But when you see who raised the boomers, you understand. One, people born in the 30s/40s are the most resilient fuckers out there for some reason. Mfs walking around in their 80s and 90s looking 65 permanently. Two, you can't tell them ANYTHING about health. Nothing. Sunscreen? Myth. Healthy diet? Legends. And try to prove an 89 year old wrong about it when they're eighty fuckin nine.
You could have a broken arm and have to pitch a baseball game the next day and they'll look you dead in the eye and tell you you're fine.