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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5736088" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Tap dance much?&nbsp; You said most people weren&#039;t living long enough to claim Social Security.&nbsp; Again, because I know this is hard for you to grasp, life expectancy of 62 doesn&#039;t mean dying by 62 for most people.&nbsp; It means the average of all deaths works out to 62.&nbsp; It was that low not because people were living to 62 and dying.&nbsp; It means a lot of younger people died back then due to diseases and that brought the overall average down.&nbsp; Plenty of people, millions, lived to a ripe old age.&nbsp; By the way when they said in 1940 life expectancy was 62 they meant for those born in 1940.&nbsp; My dad was born in 1939.&nbsp; He and millions of seniors have lived into their 70&#039;s, 80&#039;s, and beyond here in Florida.&nbsp; So why didn&#039;t they all croak around the turn of the century?&nbsp; Because healthcare got better.&nbsp; A lot of disease eliminated.&nbsp; So we aren&#039;t having young adults and children dying in the numbers they had in 1940.&nbsp; That brings the average up higher.&nbsp; Which actually dipped a bit in recent years because of the opioid crisis and criminal violence.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 5736088, member: 24302"] Tap dance much? You said most people weren't living long enough to claim Social Security. Again, because I know this is hard for you to grasp, life expectancy of 62 doesn't mean dying by 62 for most people. It means the average of all deaths works out to 62. It was that low not because people were living to 62 and dying. It means a lot of younger people died back then due to diseases and that brought the overall average down. Plenty of people, millions, lived to a ripe old age. By the way when they said in 1940 life expectancy was 62 they meant for those born in 1940. My dad was born in 1939. He and millions of seniors have lived into their 70's, 80's, and beyond here in Florida. So why didn't they all croak around the turn of the century? Because healthcare got better. A lot of disease eliminated. So we aren't having young adults and children dying in the numbers they had in 1940. That brings the average up higher. Which actually dipped a bit in recent years because of the opioid crisis and criminal violence. [/QUOTE]

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