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You're correct. Using the Social Security (?) calculations it's like 16 years. However, I shouldn't have used that stat anyway, since it's a predictor of those who make it to 67. More relevant would be the average lifespan of a man born in 1959 in the U.S. - 73 years.
No. This is what I suspected was the core problem, hence my snark: you don't understand what life expectancy is.
You made it to 67, along with all the others who did. So the relevant stat is forward-looking from here (with the crowd characteristics and threats to wellbeing going forward, not accounting for infants who died 66 years ago or soldiers or car accidents 35y ago)
But that's not you; because out of the sample of guys who did that, quite a few of them have already fallen off.
Plus — and here I'm guessing cuz I don't know the details of SS payments — I don't presume they cut you off at 73, do they? (They pay until death, whether 73 or 103)
They do pay until death. It's anecdotal, but I personally know so many people who paid into the system and died before receiving any of it back. Focusing on me, as I pointed out earlier I'm an outlier anyway. I had my own businesses my entire career and was only a salaried employee in my teens.
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No, the LE67 in the US is like 15 years. Nice try fudging the statistics, tho.
More snarky: tell me how you understand neither life expectancy nor CPI without telling me...