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Sure .. but the AVERAGE Age ?
IN THE AMERICA OF 1787, BIG FAMILIES ARE THE NORM AND LIFE EXPECTANCY IS 38
PeoplesElbow
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I think it was more like made it to adulthood, a lot of kids died before their 12th birthday.
PeoplesElbow
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Pretty sure I remember reading if you made it to 30 you were almost as likely to make it to 70 as you are today.
seekeroftruth
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Quite frankly.... As a retired Bookkeeper... I cannot believe they are not already using categorizing codes. That's just lazy!
No wonder they seem to be spending money willie nillie! It's basic bookkeeping people!
When muskythump said there were no categorizing codes I was shocked!
The IRS requires us to categorize our income and expenses on the 1040.... and then the same government we are funding through those 1040's... can't be bothered....
Nope... I am still shocked....
This is one problem I am delighted muskythump is addressing.
Thanks muskythump!
No wonder they seem to be spending money willie nillie! It's basic bookkeeping people!
When muskythump said there were no categorizing codes I was shocked!
The IRS requires us to categorize our income and expenses on the 1040.... and then the same government we are funding through those 1040's... can't be bothered....
Nope... I am still shocked....
This is one problem I am delighted muskythump is addressing.
Thanks muskythump!
The statistics say exactly that. You posted it yourself. Don't you read the stuff you link to?
Child mortality has been horrific through the ages - and that's even in societies where they DIDN'T sacrifice them to Moloch.
Or - "expose" them - leave them abandoned in the woods to die alone - because they wanted a boy or a child without a defect -
Roman times, child mortality was as high as 2 out of every 3. By the turn of the last century, most places in THE DEVELOPED WORLD still had child mortality rates hovering around 50%. Yep. Half of all children never made it to adulthood. You can even read about famous people - even Presidents - who lost children, and not to war.
In my own family tree - any number of ancestors, where they had a dozen children - and a few never made it past toddler age.
This is why you can read history and find so very many people lived to what we might call, ripe old age. If you thought child mortality had NOTHING to do with "average age" - you might think, wow, that Ben Franklin, he really beat all odds. But lots of people lived to 70, 80 and beyond.
Or - "expose" them - leave them abandoned in the woods to die alone - because they wanted a boy or a child without a defect -
Roman times, child mortality was as high as 2 out of every 3. By the turn of the last century, most places in THE DEVELOPED WORLD still had child mortality rates hovering around 50%. Yep. Half of all children never made it to adulthood. You can even read about famous people - even Presidents - who lost children, and not to war.
In my own family tree - any number of ancestors, where they had a dozen children - and a few never made it past toddler age.
This is why you can read history and find so very many people lived to what we might call, ripe old age. If you thought child mortality had NOTHING to do with "average age" - you might think, wow, that Ben Franklin, he really beat all odds. But lots of people lived to 70, 80 and beyond.
PeoplesElbow
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Do we really live longer than our ancestors?
The wonders of modern medicine and nutrition make it easy to believe we enjoy longer lives than at any time in human history, but we may not be that special after all.
Culling the herd is not as easy as it once was!
Sneakers
Just sneakin' around....
And propagating, thereby increasing the numbers of weaker humans with major physical ailments which natural selection would have weeded out without man interfering.
PeoplesElbow
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I'm blind as a bat, I'm sure I would have been eaten by a bear if it wasn't for eyeglasses.
Idiocracy
Even as recent as the 1960's ... how many would die from a Stroke or Heart Attack ...
Now you survive to be warehoused in a Nursing Home waiting to die
My 19 yr old daughter loved that movie
BREAKING: DOGE just dropped the hammer on an $8.2M USDA contract for "Cow Farts"!
Turns out, the project was for "environmental compliance services" to study what? Cow Farts!
Yep, you heard that right - your tax dollars were about to fund the ultimate in climate science: collecting cow emissions for the "Climate Smart Commodities" initiative.
Guess we'll have to find another way to make our cows eco-friendly.
