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At 90, I'm tired of paying for transit, schools I don't use
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Those are all diseases though, its not an intrinsic quality to being 90. Yes, you're more likely to get them as you get older, but again, its something that pops up for some people. Society is designed around making you inactive as hell.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10360303/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197457217302057
The rate of mobility affecting ailments is roughly 30% of people beyond age 70. Regular walking results in better prognosis and extended lifespan for all groups outside of someone with say, a heart ailment. Its better to have a society that is designed for more activity as that directly results in increased lifespans. Its also important to have stations be accessible of course, too many buses, trains, and trams don't allow at grade wheelchair access. Some stations don't even have elevators.
I agree! Thank you for coming back with data, and I'm sure we'll agree that if a 1/4th of those over 70 have mobility issues, we should not blanket-blame the whole lot for personal failings. Sure, most of them probably /should/ have exercised more, but a good chunk got dealt a bad hand. I don't want to blame the elderly for bad health. I want to blame the editorialist for bad reasoning.
Idk I'm just old as shit and hate it when someone about my age goes on and on about their problems that are 99% lifestyle related. Like they're more able bodied than me and it pisses me the fuck off cause I did a lot of work to avoid keeling over decades earlier, meanwhile they're just annoyed they have to walk at all cause its boring for them or something.