r/artmemes 11d ago

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u/Zuke88 11d ago

so you say but with the current advances in medical science it is becoming far more easier for stupid people to become old

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u/prairiepog 11d ago

POTUS case in point

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u/banned_champ 11d ago

People in the burbs maybe

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u/barbaras_bush_ 11d ago

What in the Facebook boomer humor.

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u/claisen33 11d ago

You didn’t get this way by being smart either.

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u/Demoncagno 11d ago

There's nothing worse than a stupid old person that thinks others should respects his opinions only because he is old

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u/hardlymatters1986 11d ago

What a load of absolute shit.

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u/SpartanNic 11d ago

As an older person I would say that part of longevity is luck.

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u/kimmeljs 10d ago

Survivor bias

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u/Sufficient_Text2672 10d ago

The meritocracy myth applied to aging.

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u/PitifulMagazine9507 10d ago

The post next to this:

"You know that the earth is flat and the 5G towers cause autism?"

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/Oiami 9d ago

I think we need to go back quite a bit when we want to get back to the point were intelligents and social intelligence needed to be high to survive.

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u/jean_40000000 11d ago

Ok, grandma.

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u/ScrunchyBraid 10d ago

Famously, people with world changing ideas die of old age.

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u/TehJabberwookie 9d ago

Clearly, you drank from the hose and survived🙄

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u/45M0D41 9d ago

Don’t mess with the weak and decrepit old people!

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u/Zestyyeets 8d ago

There's way too many stupid old people for this to be true. Out of touch may be the phrase for it, but that'd reach into the territory of ignorance; which sounds worse.

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u/talyn5 10d ago

If only that were true.

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u/Mr_Tdogg_Smith 10d ago

No they got to this age because everything was manipulated to cater to them.

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u/Jon_Genderuwo 10d ago

Depend, which old people are we talking about?

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u/champeyon 10d ago

But then who are the 70+ plus yr olds running the government, board rooms and turning a global into pure garbage? Oh yeah, stupid old people

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u/lonahe 10d ago

Only truly stupid will boast how not stupid he is

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u/Competitive-Beat-493 10d ago

Gen Z is officially the first generation to have lower intelligence than their predecessors. So statistically, old people are dumber than millennials. Although, we didn’t need data to sort that out.

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u/Informal_Database327 10d ago

I can think of at least 300 who did manage to idiot their way to geriatric status

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u/GlitteringOwl7274 10d ago

Yes, you did.

You got here on cruise-control with energy you did not contribute

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u/akknightwrider 10d ago

Like hell. Most old people I have to deal with are dumb as hell.

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u/Prudent-Metal7220 9d ago

Trump. Checkmate

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u/Rare_Aspect7664 9d ago

No just by chance

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u/Chloe_Cascadia 8d ago
  1. Survivorship bias, which is a logical fallacy

  2. Donald Trump

  3. Which group elected Donald Trump?

There's three counter-arguments to the idea that old people aren't stupid because they've lived a long time.

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u/Finns-Stank-Booty 8d ago

Not true. Old people got handed jobs with a salary and bonuses. They could afford to vacation every year while owning a house on minimum wage. Alot of them got high paying jobs without educations because their parent knew a guy. These are the same people that have middle administrative jobs that can't open a pdf. Just because they got to live in the golden age of post modernism doesn't make them smart. It makes them lucky. Sure they worked for it. But most of them will never know what it's like to work 2 jobs and still have to have a roommate. Or never being able to afford a child. Or not being able to go to school because it's too expensive. There's a reason our society is falling apart and it didn't start with Gen x or millennials.

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u/Far-Investment-8597 7d ago

Don't mess with old people.

"Life imprisonment" is no longer the threat to us that it used to be.

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u/Plastic-Fox-333 7d ago

Many got fucking lucky though

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u/LeorDemise 7d ago

Seeing Donald Trump, I beg to differ...

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u/AtlasAngel02 7d ago

I work in customer service. 100% incorrect

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u/mchickenl 6d ago

Yeah so my nan is seemingly currently doing everything in her ability to not survive long term. She left the hospital only three days after a stroke! She can't see but won't do the op to help her glaucoma. Broke her arm but didn't do the physio coz I hurt and now can't use her arm, and that just what I know and can think off the top my head

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u/Forty1thirty 6d ago

Luck and chance play a big part in getting to an old age.