Remembering my aunts and uncles from my childhood, a lot of the older people today don’t seem to have as much energy – I come from the US.
I’ve noticed people can be erratic and easily agitated now. Almost everyone I know in their 40s and 50s is angry all the time. Heavy drinking. Not able to process new information very well.
My uncle had a kid at 50 and played with her non-stop. I don’t know anyone capable of that now.
Am I the only one seeing this?
You are seeing the effects of late stage capitalism.
People working 2 jobs and still not have as much disposable income as they had with a single income in the past.
Not having money aside of the work, no time and mental load: it kills motivation, not wanting to be creative, and your health goes downhill also and you can’t afford to treat it anyway.
If you ask a 50 something about how long they think have left, yo will have half the amount than 2 generations ago.
Everything is on fire …
I’m 56, I can wobble though a sub 2 hour half marathon. You’re spot on about money. We have no kids, and own our house now. So can afford to have time to train, have a good diet etc etc.
What’s the solution?
Eating the rich.
Honestly aside of the joke there is not much can be done. You can start building communities and building a strong social network in your neck of the woods. But the writing is on the wall.
The next financial reset is coming and it’s not going to be pretty.
The labor class finally going to fight in the class war they’re losing.
Socialism is the long term solution, but you don’t get that without first dethroning the wealthy one way or the other.
class war
Any solution would involve the wealthiest in society making slightly less money. Therefore, it won’t happen.
that’s not true btw. if we get UBI, we can spend more and companies make more money