(07-06-2017, 02:55 PM)Jester Wrote: I suspect that's not handouts to seniors. I'd bet that's increasing inequality plus career progression. It doesn't take that many people delaying retirement (presumably after seeing much of their wealth wiped out in 2008) to raise the average income by quite a lot. There's nothing free about that lunch!Maybe also an increasing number of people are like my 85 year old mom, who walk/jogs for a mile every morning. She's in 10x better shape than her mom at the same age.
-Jester
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/busin...-life.html