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We spend so much on mitigating the risks associated with aging. The COVID lockdowns were mostly done to spare the elderly from infection due to the orders of ma
by ETH_start 3y ago
We spend so much on mitigating the risks associated with aging. The COVID lockdowns were mostly done to spare the elderly from infection due to the orders of magnitude greater infection fatality rate they were subject to, and the lockdowns cost tens of trillions of dollars in the aggregate.
We should spend considerably more on slowing and reversing aging itself. It's the source of most health hazards.
- hnbad 3y agoI didn't know the idea of weeding out "useless eaters" was still so popular after what we had to do the last time that kind of talk got traction.
- ETH_start 3y agoSorry I don't follow. Who is a useless eater? Who is advocating weeding them out?
- Gibbon1 3y agoMy usual thought when people complain about useless eaters is useless to who? Sure they don't think my 85 year old dad is important. But if I have to chose between between them and my dad, dad wins. Another observation is prosocial 'useless eaters' live quiet lives and don't consume much. And a lot of them mostly pull their own weight. More, lot of super dupers seem mostly good at socially engineering a bigger share than they entitled to. If we're talking my special needs brother vs some tech bro working on spyware and adtech the choice for me isn't close as with my dad. See: Developmentally Disabled Burger King Employee Only Competent Worker