When ‘Middle Age’ Arrives in Your 20s

Investment Analysis Clubs Macro Economic Trends and Risks
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{{ Stress is making young people feel older, with mounting concerns about job security, debt, child-care costs and caregiving }}

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https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/middle-age-young-stress-aging-4965bdc7?st=6bWJ7R&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Despite the conservative trope that not working leads to sloth, poor health and debauchery, I’m pretty sure that my 30 years of unemployment has added to my longevity.

I had some blood work done yesterday to monitor the status of my 25-year history of lupus nephritis, a potentially deadly kidney disease.

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A value of 94 is about what you’d expect to see in a healthy 25-yr-old.

intercst

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Data is not the plural of anecdote.

DB2

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Hey speaking of kidney stories i have one. Since about 2010 every year one of my metabolic tests always comes back out of specs. Some times a little, some times a lot. Kidney function Granular Filtration rate. No doctor ever brought this up to me. Three years ago I brought it up to the Uro guy. He said “if it’s been that way since 2010 it means it’s normal for you.” Two yrs ago my new GP calls me at home to tell me about how bad my kidney test was. Last June I go in for the annual tests. That test comes back squarely normal. I can’t wait to see what it is in June 2025. Cynical and skeptical.

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I have an enlarged optic nerve in my right eye that ophthalmologists have been telling me is glaucoma since age 25, but the Visual Field Test they do to confirm the diagnosis keeps coming back as “normal.”

Finally about 10 years ago, I had an ophthalmologist say, “You just have an unusual anatomy in your right eye that doesn’t appear to be causing a problem.” You think?

intercst

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Do the “JCs” care one whit if they are working their expendable meat into an early grave? If they cared, we would not be treated like “expendable meat”.

Yup, that will probably come up, along with the well worn “personal responsibility” and “dignity of work”, when they cut SS and Medicare for able bodied people, regardless of age. They will tell us it’s “for our own good” as we will be “healthier, happier, and live longer”, if they work us like a rented mule, until we drop.

Steve

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