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| | [[File:The logic of how User Conservative's mind works.GIF|center|850px|thumb|[https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Conservative/Which_place_would_most_people_in_the_world_rather_visit:_a_gay_bathhouse_in_Moscow,_Russia_or_a_gay_bathhouse_in_Buffalo,_New_York%3F._Please_focus_on_%22most_people%22_as_in_a_majority_of_gay_bathhouse_visitors.&oldid=2199950 The logic of how User Conservative's mind works], July 21, 2026.]] | | [[File:The logic of how User Conservative's mind works.GIF|center|850px|thumb|[https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Conservative/Which_place_would_most_people_in_the_world_rather_visit:_a_gay_bathhouse_in_Moscow,_Russia_or_a_gay_bathhouse_in_Buffalo,_New_York%3F._Please_focus_on_%22most_people%22_as_in_a_majority_of_gay_bathhouse_visitors.&oldid=2199950 The logic of how User Conservative's mind works], July 21, 2026.]] |
| | This is how sick the man's mind is: He thinks by [[spamming]] "[[Russia Russia Russia]] [[Homosexual agenda|Gay Gay Gay]]" for nearly 5 years, anyone who doesn't condemn Russia is promoting the gay agenda. Only he can't even read what [[AI]] says -- that [[User:Conservative]] has been attacking [[Vladimir Putin]] & [[Russia]] BECAUSE of Russia's anti-gay [[law]]s. | | This is how sick the man's mind is: He thinks by [[spamming]] "[[Russia Russia Russia]] [[Homosexual agenda|Gay Gay Gay]]" for nearly 5 years, anyone who doesn't condemn Russia is promoting the gay agenda. Only he can't even read what [[AI]] says -- that [[User:Conservative]] has been attacking [[Vladimir Putin]] & [[Russia]] BECAUSE of Russia's anti-gay [[law]]s. |
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| | + | === The Founding Fathers never made it an inalienable right that one could retire at 65. In 1776, the average male life expectancy in America was about 35 to 38 years old. Get out of your Lazy Boy chair grandpa! === |
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| | + | '''Why the Number Was So Low''' |
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| | + | • High Infant Mortality: A massive driver of this low average was childhood death. Roughly 10% to 43% of children died before reaching age five due to poor sanitation and infectious diseases like smallpox, dysentery, and malaria. |
| | + | • Not Everyone Died Young: If a person managed to survive childhood and reach adulthood in colonial America, their outlook changed completely. Adults frequently lived well into their 60s and 70s, much like people do today. |
| | + | most people in the late 1700s worked until they died or were physically unable to continue. In early America, the concept of a modern "retirement" did not exist. |
| | + | Several cultural and economic realities shaped this lifelong labor model: |
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| | + | '''1. An Agrarian, Household Economy''' |
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| | + | In the late 1700s, the vast majority of Americans lived and worked on family farms or in family-run artisanal shops. Because work was deeply integrated into household survival, there was no institutional concept of "leaving" a job. |
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| | + | • Shifting Roles: As people grew old, they didn't stop working; instead, they transitioned to less physically demanding tasks. An aging farmer might hand the heavy plowing over to his children but continue tending to livestock, repairing tools, or managing household affairs. |
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| | + | '''2. No Financial Safety Nets''' |
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| | + | There were no corporate pensions, no Social Security, and no retirement savings accounts in the 18th century. |
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| | + | • Family Dependency: If an elderly person became completely incapacitated, they relied entirely on their children or extended family for care. |
| | + | • The "Poor House": For those without family or property, the options were grim. They often had to rely on local community charity or ended up in local poorhouses. |
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| | + | '''3. The Shift to Modern Retirement''' |
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| | + | Retirement as a mass phenomenon only emerged much later with the Industrial Revolution in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When workers transitioned from family farms to urban factories, older individuals could no longer keep up with the grueling speed of assembly lines. This shift forced companies and the government to invent pensions and retirement ages to transition older generations out of the industrial workforce. |
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| | + | I trust this further clarifies matters. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 21:36, October 7, 2026 (EDT) |
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| | + | ::I created the above graphic with ChatGPT. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 21:44, October 7, 2026 (EDT) |
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| | + | :::What an idiot. He doesn't understand the structural flaw in the [[Social Security]] system. [[User:RobSmith|Foghorn Leghorn]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?]]</sup> 05:56, October 8, 2026 (EDT) |
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| | + | ::::RobSmith doesn't like my Floyd Mayweather Jr. Philly Defense and High guard blocks (USA's total household new worth, USA's high productivity, USA economic growth and flexible government responses to avoid knockouts rather than authoritarian rigidity) and my Donovan Razor Ruddock Smashes (Drone strikes on Russia, Russia's demographic crises, Russia's low church attendance, underground Russia gay bars, Russian inflation and labor shortages, Russian AIDS epidemics, Russia's crumbling roads, Russia's low labor productivity, Russian indoor toilet statistics, Russia's high divorce rates, Russia's high alcoholism, etc.). |
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| | + | ::::RobSmith you're on mat. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 15:03, October 8, 2026 (EDT |
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| | + | :::::No. I'm a [[conservative]] [[anti-communist]] who doesn't believe in [[class war]]fare - making the rich, who own and control the nation's net household wealth, pay for profligate spending to support poor dead beats, alcoholics, drug addicts and criminals who only take and have nothing to contribute to household wealth or reducing the [[national debt]]. |
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| | + | :::::Why is it, your argument is the same as [[Occupy Wall Street]]'s? [[User:RobSmith|Foghorn Leghorn]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?]]</sup> 15:42, October 8, 2026 (EDT) |
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| | + | RobSmith why do people call Russia a Mafia state and why do people talk so much about Russian oligarchs? Tell us about the Panama City Papers and Russian corruption. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 15:46, October 8, 2026 (EDT) |
| | + | :I dunno. Why do people talk so much about American oligarchs and call America a child killer and [[pedophile]] state? [[User:RobSmith|Foghorn Leghorn]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?]]</sup> 15:59, October 8, 2026 (EDT) |
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| | + | :'''Update:''' [[Zelensky]] just hit [[User:Conservative]]'s beloved [[Yandex]] main [[data center]]. '''Question:''' Why is Zelensky trying to suppress the [[truth]] that verifies & vindicates [[User:Conservative]]'s [[claptrap]]?[[User:RobSmith|Foghorn Leghorn]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?]]</sup> 16:05, October 8, 2026 (EDT) |
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