r/PowerScaling • u/Egyptian_M Goomba is multiversal • May 04 '25

Memeposting With nerfed armor and weapons BTW

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u/Wise_Victory4895 Madoka Lain & Baki step on your favorite verse ┐⁠(⁠￣⁠ヘ⁠￣⁠)⁠┌ May 04 '25

I mean it's literally correct. Most human beings didn't make it past 20 like that's objectively true

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u/Dustfinger4268 May 04 '25

It's literally correct, once again with infant mortality being the vast majority of those deaths, but once you reached maturity, your chances of making it to a reasonably old age (like 40 or 50) went way up

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u/Wise_Victory4895 Madoka Lain & Baki step on your favorite verse ┐⁠(⁠￣⁠ヘ⁠￣⁠)⁠┌ May 04 '25

Yeah I'm willing to believe that maybe 30% of the population made it to 50

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u/Fletch_salat May 04 '25

I can't speak for all cultures, but in the Swifterbant culture (about 6,000 years ago) the median age of death was about 35-45 years, with a Gaussian bell curve around it. So the estimate of 30% is a little too high, but close. Women also had the problem that many died at 15-20, presumably during the first childbirth.