It’s becoming increasingly hard for myself and my family to survive in this economy. Myself and my family are teetering in the edge. I hope there’s some relief soon. I lost my job back in 2021 and went I to business for myself. 5 years ago under Trump’s economy I think I could survive and grow without a problem. Now… a trip to the grocery store costs $500 and running up cards left and right because our two incomes combined still isn’t enough. That doesn’t even touch on all the other things like our healthcare going up etc. 3 kids… I am praying people will make their moves soon to take this thing back and get it under control. I don’t know how much time I have left. I wish there was a relief opportunity for those of us who know and trust the plan to get by until it’s fixed. LoL
It’s becoming next to impossible for myself and my family to survive.
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Both of my grandmothers kept very detailed family histories and did a lot of research going back hundreds of years. Most of my ancestors not killed in wars or by diesase (or died in childhood) lived to be in their 90s, and even some well into their 100s. And they were all ordinary people, not elites, from different backgrounds (some were in Europe, some were in America from very early on, some were Native American). I wonder how much that was the norm, and we just don't know about it because the average is skewed by infant mortality, war, and deaths in childbirth.
Your knowledge of the facts of life in times past is making it difficult to make you follow the narrative that we all are doing better because we are now more advanced and intelligent than the previous generations. Anyone that has done a genealogical family tree has the dates of birth and death going back multiple generations, sometimes for a thousand years. The funny thing is that most people don't have the awareness to note how long the people of each generation lived. Kudos to you!
Fun activity...find the oldest cemetery in your area, and walk around and take note of the birth and death dates. I bet you'll find a lot of people who lived to very old age there.
Yup. My relatives, hard lives, poor, farm people lived way into their 90’s.