America Needs to Radically Rethink What It Means to Be Old — The Atlantic
life expectancy alone is not enough. There has to be a suppression of degenerative diseases that currently turn the older cohort into massive consumers of resources rather than producers. Diseases that kill quickly are economically sustainable. Keeping people alive who can’t produce is economically debilitating.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
The idea of retirement would lose its meaning and working lives would more closely resemble those in the pre-industrial era, where the elderly continue working and contributing as they can. We might expect a great expansion of education for this age group, building on initiatives like the University of the Third Age, in which the elderly teach each
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible
Like death and taxes, aging has long been seen as an inevitable part of the human condition. But during the last 30 years, our scientific understanding of what aging is has improved, and with that, what once seemed impossible is now getting closer to being true: today, only a lucky few make it past 80 in good health, but what if most people did so?... See more