This is the insanity, that the problem of spending massive amounts of money on ourselves at the end of our lives is not mentioned when discussing this “aging population.” Why anyone thinks it’s their problem what I choose to do with my life didn’t make sense when I was a teenager and makes much less sense now. Discussing end of life options is still taboo, as we saw with the cries of how Obamacare was going to kill grandma. If you think about how we talk about starving children, the discussion gets even more insane.
We didn’t solve the Malthusian problem of population growth outstripping resources, we just delayed it a generation or so. We could have spent that time talking about it instead of creating more flavors of Doritos and fighting wars as if using resources somehow creates more resources.
Have you forgotten that you said this?