hotdogrelish

I think that this is sometimes misleading marketing-speak.

For example, Perdue says, "All of the animals for our branded products are raised in no-antibiotics-ever programs"; as a big company, surely this leaves enough vagueness for them to raise and sell animals with antibiotics under other brands/products. Since it's a private company, consumers can't know really what percentage of animals fall under one category or the other.

https://corporate.perduefarms.com/news/statements/antibiotic...

Though it is interesting that such a big company would move towards that direction at all.

I agree with your general sentiment, but I think this timeline doesn't necessarily extrapolate well for the United States. The average age of a vehicle on the road in the US is about 12 years - aftermarket suppliers as well as oil/gas companies have a very strong incentive to plan that far ahead in order to keep up with the demand. Especially given that the quantity of gas vehicles on the road will be, as you say, such a large percentage of the market.

Interestingly in some states it's even higher than $636k!

However, I think you're on the nose with the long term care facilities. Medicaid will only pay 100% of any nursing home care (high end or low end) if your countable assets are $2500 or less. Additionally, Medicaid considers your income going back 5 years in order to determine eligibility, so selling (or putting into a trust) sooner rather than later can make sense for a lot of people. https://www.webmd.com/health-insurance/features/when-how-muc...

Interestingly, in 1960 there were 16 MLB teams that played 154 regular season games for a total of 1232 games that year, compared to 30 MLB teams playing 162 games for 2430 total games (almost double!) a year today. I imagine other sports have seen a similar trend as well.