An aging crisis looms
Rethinking how we can adjust
Who wants to live forever?
#agingcrisis #olderworkers #policymakers #haiku #poetry
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/business/dealbook/demographic-crisis.html
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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(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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