The Old Guard, by Samuel Moyn

Confronting America’s gerontocratic crisis

Harper's Magazine
Who wants to live forever?

Countries and companies are facing an aging crisis, and experts say policymakers and business leaders need to rethink how they deal with older workers.

The #propertySpeculator wants his cake and eat it too. On the one hand he says that the #coronavirus is just a bad #flu and will only kill the #elderly so let's all get it and move on. In the next breath he says we have an #agingCrisis and need to bring in more #migrants to exploit them as #students and #nurses etc.

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#covid19 #labour #ageism #ageist #ableist

(4/8..So beware of those who warn of an #agingPopulation or #agingCrisis. These people are demoralising the general population into wishing death on their neighbours, thus preventing #intergenerational #community formation. What the elite want is a fast turnover of aspirational youthful people who don't know their neighbours, who rely on the media for information and #culturalEnrichment (think #Hollywood) and who die after putting their children through school.

In past centuries the church..4/8

@techbolt
If a system requires more people constantly to stay in one place. Then that is a #ponzi, the #NHS might benefit from high numbers coming in but what happens when the 30-y.o.s that we poach from other countries start to age in 15 years.

You guessed it - an even bigger problem.

Various #interestGroups also push the "#agingCrisis" here in #Australia, they neglect that #disability is also going down with aging. Yes there's some extra challenges, but ...

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