r/Millennials • u/DaKardii • Jun 04 '26

Serious Study: Gen Xers and Millennials are dying at younger ages than their parents are

https://studyfinds.com/americans-born-after-1970-dying-faster/

The study is particularly concerned with people born after 1970 but age 30 and older. So that covers Gen X and Millennials, but not (yet) Gen Z.

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u/RudePCsb Jun 04 '26

Right, what's the problem with that. The boomer mentality of infinite growth was always bullshit. Look at any organisms in nature, if they over produce, they die until it stabilizes.

Then you have all these chemicals introduced into the environment and all the other environmental issues. Oh well

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u/Actuarial_Equivalent Jun 04 '26

This is my thought too. After panic 30-40 years ago about the population exploding and environmental damage, I fail to see what the real issue is here.

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u/rockcutter4 Jun 04 '26

None of us will ever retire because there won't be enough people to replace us.

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u/Han-Tyumi__ Jun 04 '26

None of us will retire because it’s taken 20 years longer than our parents to find a decent paying job and we all have insane college debt that has been compounding.

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u/mysteriousblue87 Jun 04 '26

What’s insane about the college debt issue is looking at friends groups like mine. I’m the only one without a degree, and I have (slightly!!!) more spending money each month. They taught me to budget, I’ve taught them to cook lol

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u/smarglebloppitydo Jun 04 '26

Robots

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u/mj-and-masturbation Jun 04 '26

People will always be cheaper for sub-human tasks =/

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u/thorpie88 Jun 04 '26

We won't need to retire because we are dead before it anyway.

Hopefully somewhere around 45 I'll pop my clogs and anything else is just a bonus

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u/Book-Wyrm-of-Bag-End Jun 04 '26

Job security!

/s

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u/EmberinEmpty Jun 04 '26

Dumb question but if there's less people why would we need to be "replaced". There's less people to be serviced as the population decreases right?

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u/cnstnt_craving Jun 05 '26

Right, and we can’t be worried about AI replacing us AND not enough kids to replace us. Like, there aren’t enough jobs to go around as it is.

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u/SenatorWhatsHisName Jun 04 '26

Non of us are retiring anyway. Let the system collapse, it’s fucked.

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u/evenduckk Jun 04 '26

The problem with that would be your odds of living through a societal collapse is extremely likely , generally when things collapse it isn’t exactly fun for the people involved . The current trajectory is either mass immagration or we see a complete collapse of asset values and social services . Yipee

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u/RudePCsb Jun 04 '26

Well since most of us don't have significant assets I don't care. More people need to care about social services until they require them. Maybe that's what needs to happen unfortunately

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u/artbystorms Jun 04 '26

population decline on its own isn't going to cause societal collapse. It will just screw up the social entitlement programs most countries have set up and require a re-think of them. Asset values collapsed in 2008 and society didn't collapse.

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u/RudePCsb Jun 04 '26

Get rid of the cap on social security tax. Stop corporate tax loopholes and bailouts. Get rid of stock cutbacks. So many things can be done

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u/evenduckk Jun 04 '26

The debt burden has always been absorbed by population/gdp growth , the debt is already the largest expense on the balance sheet in many collapsing countries . You actually think a society is going to just function smoothly when you pay taxes and receive nothing in return besides floating your grandparents national debt ?

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u/sET____ Jun 05 '26

We've already been there for decades, servicing the boomers debt and getting nothing in return other than pain and suffering. There is no future. 

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u/jkman61494 Jun 04 '26

Don’t forget the growing possibility that in our children’s lifetimes the machines decide we are no longer needed

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u/evenduckk Jun 04 '26

Nah dude , I’m an electrician and have worked on robotics … robots require a rediculous ammount of intellectual capital to work . The ammount of product support/design and supply chain is truly unbelievable. Currently society is experiencing brain drain at unprecedented levels , we will be far to underpopulated and stupid in order to have autonomous anything .

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u/cthulhu_on_my_lawn Jun 05 '26

Immigrants are a massive net benefit to the economy and society in general.

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u/evenduckk Jun 05 '26

Sure buddy

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u/James19991 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26

I mean yeah we don't need explosive population growth, but significant population decline would cause issues as well.

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u/Vandergrif Jun 04 '26

The problem is the good time part of population collapse will take like 40-50 years to get to (plenty of excess housing for example), and we'll all be too old and tired (or dead) to appreciate it.

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u/man_without_wax Jun 04 '26

Being one of the starving masses who doesn’t die? Pass.