Where do we put them?.....as they must work?
I think these questions could be answered if we truly spent enough ressources on them. We can scale up as opposed to horizontally. Food could be produced in labs and have more nutrients and taste better.
I think these questions could be answered if we truly spent enough ressources on them. We can scale up as opposed to horizontally. Food could be produced in labs and have more nutrients and taste better.
However, the hard facts we are dealing with today is the aftermath of the Baby Boomers. Normally, when we deal with population graphs, we see a huge base of young, a smaller base of young adults, smaller base of mid adults, and a small/pinnacle of elderly. It's supposed to taper off into a long tail.
Instead, we in the US (unsure about other cultures and areas) a huge bulge around 55-65. Social programs are meant to subsidise the elder through the younger. However in this situation, there's not enough younger to pay for the same care the elder have been receiving. So you either raise the age cap, or reduce service. And, AARP makes sure the second choice doesn't happen.
And about the food quip: back in 2000, the global food output was enough to feed 12 earths of people, yet people still died of hunger. Overall resource maintenance and allocation is the bigger, and unsolved problem.
Upper middle class and above have little to no qualms about throwing scads of money at a little bit of extra time here, even if the quality of that time is approaching 0. And in the baby boomers case, they expect the government to send in their due. When that comes, though, we will not be able to afford it.
It's kind of what we talk a lot about in the entrepreneurial sense: We try to convert time to money in a reproducible sense. However, the older you get, money depreciates to 0 (dead people have no use for money), so you run that equation backwards, with large inefficiencies.
But this kind of talk seems to piss off the bulk of downvoters. So be it.
How about some of you who are giving downvotes explain why you are doing so? Is what I said not factual, or just uncomfortable to read?
Also, this is all absurdly offtopic.
I did not downvote you and I think you make an interesting point. I agree downvoters should explain.