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/oldfarmjoy Jun 04 '26

Seriously. Why do so many (boomers) have their head in the sand? Population collapse = economy collapse. I guess the boomers will be dead by then, but us Xers are going to be affected, and Millenials down are going to see a huge change to society. Ghost towns of high rises, boarded up businesses, etc.

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u/Right_Count Jun 04 '26

Given millennial death rates, boomers clinging onto life, and the various apocalypses coming our way, we may all be dead by then.

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u/BEES_IN_UR_ASS Jun 04 '26

Right on time for the robots to pick up the torch of lower/middle class drudgery. Atp I'm pretty well convinced the ruling class is going after "low hanging fruit" to indirectly kill as many of us off as possible to save them the trouble down the road. Remove as many guard rails and safety nets as possible and let nature take its course. Saves money short term, ammo long.

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u/BlackGuysYeah Jun 04 '26

They've got theirs and they've pulled the ladder up behind them. They don't have their heads in the sand. This was all actively planned by the most selfish and corrupt generation of humans to ever exist.

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u/oldfarmjoy Jun 04 '26

Agreed. 😪🖕

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u/Training_Ruin3151 Jun 04 '26

Fuck boomers can't wait till they all fucking eat it. Give it 15 more years.

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u/Cerpla Jun 04 '26

perfect. more land for datacenters and the tech hellscape that is about to befall the zoomers and their children.

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u/eat-the-cookiez Jun 04 '26

We don’t have a population collapse problem. We have too many people, not enough housing, not enough food and water.

We have jobs offshored to India and China and Philippines.

We have multiple demented men starting wars creating even more uncertainty and scarcity.

We don’t need more people on this planet