It seems like the new reality is that most of us are going to be working through our 40s, 50s, and 60s, at the least. If there was some way that we could recon

It seems like the new reality is that most of us are going to be working through our 40s, 50s, and 60s, at the least. If there was some way that we could reconfigure the world so that it was possible for people to work on starting their families in their 20s, when they are the most fertile and the risk of birth defects and difficult pregnancies are lower, that seems to me like a better way for the world to work. The way the math works out, if you had children in your early 20s, by the time they were grown, and you were freed up to really devote yourself to a career, you'd still have 25 or 30 productive years to make something happen. I have no idea how we would get there, though. The current system leaves young people buried in a deep hole, with very limited resources - huge student loan debts, nonexistent savings, precarious, transient work and living conditions. You've got to work like a dog for a decade to achieve some level of stability. On the other end, ageism leaves people that hit 40 at a disadvantage, just when they are reaching the point that they become experienced enough to really be useful.