Those old people used to be young and helped pay for their parents and grandparents to live into old age. Part of being young and productive is helping take care of those less able than you, including the elderly.

Unless you're volunteering to work for 40 years then be executed on retirement, I think you should delete that comment and that thought from your mind.

Given the opportunity, one wonders what you'd like to do with 'old people consuming resources without adding anything and supposedly 'holding back societies'. Earlier in the 20th century a significant cohort of intellectuals had decided ideas on this and the earlier generations.

Related somewhat to this: 'The Intellectuals and the Masses' by John Carey makes for truly shocking reading.

Who? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/14/john-carey-obi...