> The availability of elder care services in the marketplace doesn't constitute a "gerontocracy". that's not what I said and you're now arguing against a straw

> The availability of elder care services in the marketplace doesn't constitute a "gerontocracy". that's not what I said and you're now arguing against a strawman. I said that retraining of displaced laborers to be elder-care service providers is moving in the direction of gerontracracy, and that if the trend is extrapolated enough (perhaps to the point of absurdity, but I was making a speculative point, not a comment about the current state of things) then it is easy to imagine funneling young people into that industry as alternative job opportunities are less and less available. that would be gerontocracy.