[HN Gopher] Amish People Stay Healthy in Old Age. Here's Their S...
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       Amish People Stay Healthy in Old Age. Here's Their Secret
        
       Author : oldschoolib
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-01-06 21:26 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | steponlego wrote:
       | They eat a lot of fermented foods which helps them out too.
        
       | numtel wrote:
       | Regarding the caring for elderly part of this article, I want to
       | write a story that's like the Ricky Gervais movie, The Invention
       | of Lying, but instead, it's about the first person to build their
       | own house. Until then, everybody lives in big houses of a hundred
       | or more, sharing responsibilities and taking care of each other
       | but still free to move to different houses if they find a better
       | fit.
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       | I think there's a lot to explore in the effects of isolation that
       | we experience living in our own houses that people are made to
       | think is the only way to live. "A house for every family" is an
       | ideal that many people as virtuous but I think it's instrumental
       | to lots of the problems of our society.
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | It makes sense that societies in which identity is built around
       | working for capitalists would have more trouble with Old Age than
       | societies in which identity (a) is not as much a thing, cf
       | _Gelassenheit_ , and (b) is, no matter one's age, directed
       | towards accumulation "where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt".
       | 
       | From the other contrasting direction, cf _Brave New World_ , in
       | which Old Age simply does not exist.
        
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