> A society with an increasing percentage of the population as old people who don't do anything interesting is an increasingly depressing society for young peop

> A society with an increasing percentage of the population as old people who don't do anything interesting is an increasingly depressing society for young people to live in. It doesn't have to be this way, and the "solution" isn't a baby boom or Logan's Run. There are a lot of older people who are capable of working, but society presents many barriers to this: 1. Age discrimination; 2. Employers overworking employees; 3. Lack of flexibility in working conditions (part-time, work-from-home, etc.); 4. Lack of educational and job training resources for older people Society tends to push the majority of people toward retirement, both because it wants older people out of the workforce and also because working life tends to suck for the workers (hence the desire to retire ASAP). But a lot of retirees are actually bored and would welcome becoming useful again, if society provided better opportunities for them. Instead of "work hard until you retire", we could all perhaps "work easy until you die". Older people are forced to make the choice between working hard and retiring, but younger people are presented with similarly bad choices, for example, working hard or spending time raising your children.