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Re:Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay? by rapjr9 on Friday September 06, 2024 @05:26AM (#41464446)
The median lifespan is no longer over 80, at least not for middle age males in the US, though it is for females:

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

It also depends a lot on what your current age is. If you're 60 or older it's 80 or more. If you're younger than that and male it's under 80, going down the younger you are. Covid and other things reduced life expectancy in the US. This is the 2021 table, the most recent, life expectancy may go down further as new tables are published. However the graphs here tell a different story:

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

Part of these graphs are future projections, so it's difficult to tell what to believe. I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that the first table is what the insurance industry and Social Security uses.

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Re:Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay? by klooney on Friday September 06, 2024 @06:24AM (#41464735)
There are some uh, relevant socioeconomic correlations here.
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Re:Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay? by red-iron-pine on Friday September 06, 2024 @11:21AM (#41466993)
to a degree, yes.

but obesity -- which correlates with income level and area code -- is what's killing people early. if you're fat as hell at 19 you're probably going to be even fatter at 60, and heart disease or cancer is going to kill you.

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Re:Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay? by pedrosorio on Saturday September 07, 2024 @11:59AM (#41474613)
> Covid and other things reduced life expectancy in the US.

It reduced life expectancy for people who were alive in 2019. Those statistics say nothing about the life expectancy of people who are currently alive.

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