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That's not how it works. Young people want to acquire resources to be able to successfully grow old (i.e. survive). Once they are old (i.e. had gotten the resou
by mafuy 6y ago
That's not how it works. Young people want to acquire resources to be able to successfully grow old (i.e. survive). Once they are old (i.e. had gotten the resources to become old), they don't need to get these resources anymore - because they have them already! Thus, they are free to want something else (like "sleeping well").
It's called survivorship bias, and it means that these very romantic ideas cannot be trusted without compensating for the bias. Those with too little resources died before you could ask them.
- bobthepanda 6y agoIt's also a very privileged subset of old people that get to live made-for-tv retirement in a community with lawns, golf carts and picket fences. Indigent old people stuck recycling cans to make ends meet probably don't have this worldview.
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoMoreover, people in the modern world are unlikely to starve to death, but what does happen is that they have to labor at some other purpose in order to make ends meet, and then the public good is not produced.