Victory lap!

It really is. My great-grandfather was born in 1898 and died in 1999. He almost lived in three different centuries. He rode a horse and buggy in his youth and played Windows Solitaire in his later years.

The oldest person alive right now was born in 1907 and is 117. Depending on how well her memory has held up, she might be able to remember a time that nobody else in the whole world can.

Oh absolutely not. No thank you. The world at large has my permission to smother me with a pillow if I hit 90 and don't die. But it's fine, I'm sure the microplastics/ultraprocessed food/climate change/whatever will take me out before that.

Every time I feel old I remember that all of my grandparents lived to well over 90 and that I'm barely halfway through my life. With modern medicine and the Boomers beta testing any advances, I'll probably live to 130 with good quality of life with just over the counter medication and regular automated cancer screenings.

And extra colon cancer screenings if I'm a good boy.

This will happen to all of us if quantum immortality is real.

My grandfather just turned 95. He will probably continue voting for Republicans until he is 120.

Millennials worst nightmare.

But I think its clear that through freedom and equity of the markets we have chosen to fight this problem and mitigate the number of people becoming old. You can see the results already.

I didn't take 90 years to get to that, sadly. 1/3 of that at most.

I started at the place I'm working at now right out of college, and there was a pension that was intended to provide 85% of your final salary from retirement to the end of your life; I would have had all my retirement points at 55. Then like 15+ years ago, the company was sold and the pension was frozen. Still a great thing, but nothing close to what it was supposed to be.

When I turned 55, I was pretty pissed off about it - I should have been able to retire. Then I realized that I could easily live another 30 years. That's an awfully long time. Sure, the money would have been nice, but I don't think I would have wanted to retire then. I'm getting close to it now, and still it seems like a long time potentially.

I'll settle for 50, i don't need more of this madness we call life.