Perhaps a better word than "Eventually" would have been "Temporarily". There's a large gap that a society must cross to go from third-world to developed. Educ

Perhaps a better word than "Eventually" would have been "Temporarily". There's a large gap that a society must cross to go from third-world to developed. Education, infrastructure, technology, culture, and politics, and career changes take time and money, and when you're competing against other nations making the same transition, and others exploiting the system through corruption, black markets, disguised slavery, wealth extraction by foreign corporations, etc. it's very difficult to make the transition. I believe that the assumption is that after making the transition, the resulting society will have sufficient economic excess that it will be able to support the large elderly population and will be better off in the end.