raider_1001

raider_1001 t1_jeamacu wrote

The topic with population collapse isn’t about there will be less people due to dying of old age, it is that as more people reach the legal retirement age, there are less and less people that are working to pay for the healthcares and retirement pensions.

So the obvious/dumb solution is not making people live longer, but rather making the existing working population retire later. But politically this is unfair to millennials and gen z since they now have to work even harder to reach the same living standards as their parents.

TLDR, life extension is not a solution to population collapse, the real solution is something magical that can make millennials and gen z willing to pay more taxes for longer period of time.

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