The original comment said that every generation lives longer than the one that came before, and then gp said that that was a lie that keeps being repeated and i

The original comment said that every generation lives longer than the one that came before, and then gp said that that was a lie that keeps being repeated and is only infant mortality improving. Someone then replied with data showing that life expectancy is getting longer even setting aside infant mortality, to which you replied that the difference was that reduced mortality at age 60 adds mostly unproductive years, while reduced mortality at age 0-1 adds mostly productive years. My question was how that has any bearing on the question in this thread of whether or not people are living longer? It wasn't clear to me at least without more info. Or maybe it was just an unrelated tangent. But that lack of clarity is why I asked.