Casey Handmer on Evolving Senior Citizen Definitions
Former JPL physicist and Terraform Industries founder comments on aging populations.
TLDR
Casey Handmer posted that this is mostly an evolution in what counts as senior citizen. He stated any civilization has roughly a 50 year window between getting rich enough that most people don't die young and having a crazy number of highly dependent older people. He added that 50 years is a long time to get rich enough that care for the old is feasible. The post includes a dark-themed line chart titled Equ.
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