It's unpleasant but there is a policy "knob" you can turn, which is to just let people die when they can't support themselves in the society we've built. We alr

It's unpleasant but there is a policy "knob" you can turn, which is to just let people die when they can't support themselves in the society we've built. We already do it for large sections of the population and there's no reason to suppose we won't do it to grandma and grandpa when the SSA coffers are empty. It's much harder to do this in a village society, where you literally see people starving as you have your lunch, but in an industrialized, atomized western society it is extremely easy because you never even have to think about it.