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    Casey Handmer on Evolving Senior Citizen Definitions

    Former JPL physicist and Terraform Industries founder comments on aging populations.

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    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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    @CJHandmerThis is mostly an evolution in what counts as "senior citizen". Any civilization has roughly a 50 year window between getting rich enough that most people don't die young (and thus get old) and then having a crazy number of highly dependent older people. 50 years is a long time to get rich enough that care for the old doesn't displace care for the young, that medicine improve enough that the old have better health, etc. By and large our current technology stack is not winning this race and we are seeing a general collapse in births. 100 separate policy errors compound on this issue from housing scarcity to low quality schools, poor administration of poorly designed entitlements to regressive tax policy, and fundamentally no enfranchisement or championing of the rights of children. The only way out is >10% annual economic growth driven by full automation of the economy and/or radical immortality medicine that slows aging by >10x.

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    @CJHandmerThis is mostly an evolution in what counts as "senior citizen". Any civilization has roughly a 50 year window between getting rich enough that most people don't die young (and thus get old) and then having a crazy number of highly dependent older people. 50 years is a long time to get rich enough that care for the old doesn't displace care for the young, that medicine improve enough that the old have better health, etc. By and large our current technology stack is not winning this race and we are seeing a general collapse in births. 100 separate policy errors compound on this issue from housing scarcity to low quality schools, poor administration of poorly designed entitlements to regressive tax policy, and fundamentally no enfranchisement or championing of the rights of children. The only way out is >10% annual economic growth driven by full automation of the economy and/or radical immortality medicine that slows aging by >10x.