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> longer than they should Just great. And who is to decide how long is "too long"? You?

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newyankee 6mo ago
I am sure people said the same 100 years back when they probably thought living beyond say 60 was too much. I know that in poorer countries due to high infant mortality rate and other issues just reaching 60 was a big milestone for the average person. The bigger question is how will the existing financial system adapt for such a scenario if even 10% of the population manages to extend from 82 to 100+
- graemep 6mo ago
  AFAIK most societies historically respected the wisdom attributed to old age, and many cultures still do.
  - therobots927 6mo ago
    If anything, we’ve seen that older generations of leadership can’t keep up with changing technology and fail to adapt to massive upheavals. In times of rapid technological development, the old are not wise. They are reactionary and cannot adapt. Their brain stopped developing before the internet. To expect them to make adequate decisions for the current landscape is to expect them to understand a world they simply weren’t built for.
    - graemep 6mo ago
      Massively ageist. A lot of older people are more adaptable, have a better understanding of technology. The older you are the more change you will have experienced.
      - therobots927 6mo ago
        Yeah that’s why congress is just so on top of technology regulation. Just because it’s ageist doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
  - expedition32 6mo ago
    So you end up with octogenarians in power? No thanks. I am glad that in my country people retire and fuck off to spend their last days on holiday. Spending their accumulated wealth has become a major engine of the national economy.
  - steve1977 6mo ago
    Not too much wisdom in sight.
- jcranmer 6mo ago
  > I am sure people said the same 100 years back when they probably thought living beyond say 60 was too much. At least in Western cultures, 70 was long considered the "natural" lifespan for humans. E.g., Dante's Divine Comedy takes place when the main character is at the literal midpoint of his life, 35.
- boelboel 6mo ago
  50% of highly educated women in certain countries are expected to live to 100+ years old according to some demographers, although others believe there's genuine biological limits making this unlikely (they still believe a substantial amount will reach it). People have been reaching the age of 100 since antiquity, reaching 110 probably happened hundreds of years ago as well. Which just shows the biological limit hasn't been extended just that there's more people reaching it.
VoidWarranty 6mo ago
Term limits.
esseph 6mo ago
Well, before we figure out who to send to the old age camps to be ground up and turned into McDonald's and Legos... first let's get some nice "age discrimination" laws in place preventing running for government office after age 67.
shlant 6mo ago
I think some sort of cognitive test would be a good place to start
dang 6mo ago
Please don't conduct cross-examinations or otherwise be aggressive in HN threads. It's against the intended spirit of the site. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

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I am sure people said the same 100 years back when they probably thought living beyond say 60 was too much. I know that in poorer countries due to high infant mortality rate and other issues just reaching 60 was a big milestone for the average person. The bigger question is how will the existing financial system adapt for such a scenario if even 10% of the population manages to extend from 82 to 100+

graemep 6mo ago
AFAIK most societies historically respected the wisdom attributed to old age, and many cultures still do.
- therobots927 6mo ago
  If anything, we’ve seen that older generations of leadership can’t keep up with changing technology and fail to adapt to massive upheavals. In times of rapid technological development, the old are not wise. They are reactionary and cannot adapt. Their brain stopped developing before the internet. To expect them to make adequate decisions for the current landscape is to expect them to understand a world they simply weren’t built for.
  - graemep 6mo ago
    Massively ageist. A lot of older people are more adaptable, have a better understanding of technology. The older you are the more change you will have experienced.
    - therobots927 6mo ago
      Yeah that’s why congress is just so on top of technology regulation. Just because it’s ageist doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
- expedition32 6mo ago
  So you end up with octogenarians in power? No thanks. I am glad that in my country people retire and fuck off to spend their last days on holiday. Spending their accumulated wealth has become a major engine of the national economy.
- steve1977 6mo ago
  Not too much wisdom in sight.
jcranmer 6mo ago
> I am sure people said the same 100 years back when they probably thought living beyond say 60 was too much. At least in Western cultures, 70 was long considered the "natural" lifespan for humans. E.g., Dante's Divine Comedy takes place when the main character is at the literal midpoint of his life, 35.
boelboel 6mo ago
50% of highly educated women in certain countries are expected to live to 100+ years old according to some demographers, although others believe there's genuine biological limits making this unlikely (they still believe a substantial amount will reach it). People have been reaching the age of 100 since antiquity, reaching 110 probably happened hundreds of years ago as well. Which just shows the biological limit hasn't been extended just that there's more people reaching it.

VoidWarranty 6mo ago

Term limits.

esseph 6mo ago

Well, before we figure out who to send to the old age camps to be ground up and turned into McDonald's and Legos... first let's get some nice "age discrimination" laws in place preventing running for government office after age 67.

shlant 6mo ago

I think some sort of cognitive test would be a good place to start

dang 6mo ago

Please don't conduct cross-examinations or otherwise be aggressive in HN threads. It's against the intended spirit of the site. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.