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Yeah, but we want to reduce the population old people, not young people. Maybe an intergenerational war.
by perilunar 9y ago
Yeah, but we want to reduce the population old people, not young people. Maybe an intergenerational war.
- tremon 9y agoStrictly speaking, we want to reduce the ratio of nonproductive vs productive people. Culling the old is not the only way to do that, and certainly not the best. (edit: and we definitely need better language. "nonproductive" need not be synonymous with "having an income to support oneself", since there's still many productive activities that are not rewarded monetarily)
- thriftwy 9y agoEven productive old people can't bear children. Even non-productive young people can bear children. If you "cull" young people (by war) you make the problem worse by having even smaller working-age population later. Of course you can lose and have incoming invading horde which may solve the problem, FSVO "solve".