Does your life basically begin at age 70?

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Look at these people:

• Elizabeth Warren (b. 1949): Age 70
• Donald Trump (b. 1946): Age 73
• Joe Biden (b. 1942): Age 77
• Michael Bloomberg (b. 1942): Age 78
• Bernie Sanders (b. 1941): Age 78

I didn't even know some of these people were that freakin' old. Bloomberg, for example, didn't look 78 years old to me. Nor did Warren necessarily look 70. Even Tom Steyer (b. 1957) is 62 years old. Hillary Clinton (b. 1947) is 72 years old, and people are saying in a pinch, she could become the nominee if Joe Biden falls apart somehow before the election.

Tom Hanks (b. 1956) is 63 years old and still making movies, like that Mr. Rogers movie that came out recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beautiful_Day_in_the_Neighborhood

Btw, wtf is Jack Nicholson (b. 1937, age 82) up to these days? Oh, nothing, huh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Nicholson#2010s

Yeah, I guess that's how it is. You peak in your 70s and then you're done. Or sometimes you peak in your late 30s, like I did. I wonder if I'll have a second peak like 10 years from now or something, and get to fuck my daughter, and impregnate her, or whatnot. That would be pretty cool.

 

[Oxblood]

fuck my daughter

Why? Is she hot?

 

[Leucosticte]

Why? Is she hot?

Of course; she has the best genetics.

 

[Admin]

It takes a lot of time to gather a cult-following or to build up wealth, this is why presidential candidates tend to be old.

So when you finally reach the state where you get real power you will be way past your prime mentally, both Trump and Biden clearly suffers from that.

In order to get power as a young individual you need to essentially inherit it, having a famous father will help a lot politically but even then it takes time to capitalize on it.

 

[Leucosticte]

It takes a lot of time to gather a cult-following or to build up wealth, this is why presidential candidates tend to be old.

So when you finally reach the state where you get real power you will be way past your prime mentally, both Trump and Biden clearly suffers from that.

In order to get power as a young individual you need to essentially inherit it, having a famous father will help a lot politically but even then it takes time to capitalize on it.

Oh, do you see signs in Trump of mental breakdown? I thought all that really happened was that he got fat and lazy. That happened even to Hermann Göring, didn't it, and that dude died at 53.

 

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/why-are-these-people-so-freaking-old/607492/

The U.S. government is a creaky machine whose most crucial cogs could be generously described as “vintage.” The average age in Congress is near an all-time high. The House speaker, House majority leader, House majority whip, and Senate majority leader are all over 75.

To be clear, this phenomenon is bigger than politics. Across business, science, and finance, power is concentrated among the elderly. In the past 40 years, the average age of Nobel Prize laureates has increased in almost every discipline, including physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature. Among S&P 500 companies, the average age of incoming CEOs has increased by 14 years in the past 14 years. Americans 55 and older account for less than one-third of the population, but they own two-thirds of the nation’s wealth—the highest level of wealth concentration on record.

The prevalence of old power is undoubtedly related to the prevalence of old age. Higher-income Americans are living longer than ever and working longer, too. Leading the country is tiring work (at least in theory) but it’s not taxing in the way that factory work or construction is. As the economy shifts to white-collar labor, septuagenarians are staying at work. The share of Americans over 75 who are attached to the labor force has increased by 85 percent in the past 20 years.