> The US population is aging, which means that 36% slice is going to naturally grow. What do you think should be cut, and how?
The callous, cynical and on-brand answer to that question is: "the number of elderly, in the cruellest possible fashion". You've got to balance the age pyramid somehow, right? And if that sounds obscene, you're not alone.
The depraved part is that from an inhuman, entirely utilitarian perspective there is a ruthless logic to it. For many Western societies it would be fiscally so much easier if you could just ... get rid of the over-aged population. Or at least the segment who don't have dynastic wealth to protect them from the ruin.
It seems to me the US now have a government who have no problem trying out their own variant of Logan's Run.
It’s also notable that those who used “death panels” as a scare tactic back when Obamacare was being created were perfectly fine with saying some old folks just have to be sacrificed during COVID and will be perfectly fine cutting Medicare and Medicaid if they can get away with it. And, of course, they are also ok with the private-run death panels most of us are subject to by our insurance refusing to cover necessary treatments.
The callous, cynical and on-brand answer to that question is: "the number of elderly, in the cruellest possible fashion". You've got to balance the age pyramid somehow, right? And if that sounds obscene, you're not alone.
The depraved part is that from an inhuman, entirely utilitarian perspective there is a ruthless logic to it. For many Western societies it would be fiscally so much easier if you could just ... get rid of the over-aged population. Or at least the segment who don't have dynastic wealth to protect them from the ruin.
It seems to me the US now have a government who have no problem trying out their own variant of Logan's Run.