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  • Eh I'm not in the US so my situation is different from yours. Modern welfare systems are more comprehensive than anything seen before in human history, I support them. I pay more for groceries than my parents did in rent when they were my age. My parents never had to pay for a university education while I have accumulated more debt than them before getting a full time job than they did until they started getting mortgages. And I am gonna have to deal with the economic slump of supporting their and my grandparents retirement. Our societies aren't built to support aging populations. My retirement plans are death or moving to a low income country.

  • I'm more talking about material conditions. Older people need more and produce less and if you're a young person today you have more older people to support than ever before. On top of that a growing older population is a growing population with a vested interest in not changing society. My rhetorical question is deliberately inflammatory but I do honestly think that the average lifespan has grown faster than our society's ability to adapt to an ageing population and young people will be the ones most impacted.

  • I am already the one in need of assistance. I am part of the first generation of Australians to be poorer than their parents. And the burden of the elderly is only expected to grow as I age. For most people my age their main prospects are the inheritances from their parents that is sure to come later and worth less. I think there is something to say about the expected lifespan of people growing faster than the cultural changes needed to support an on average older population.

  • Well why are we struggling to move away from capitalism? Perhaps a disproportionately large older generation with an entrenched interest in maintaining the status quo?

    While I played up the title for engagement bait I do think there is something to say about an aging population smothering its youngest simply by virtue of demanding more resources than it produces.