The solutions won't be cheap, nor will they be culturally or politically easy to swallow in this country, but it's where we'll wind up - one way or another. Lif

The solutions won't be cheap, nor will they be culturally or politically easy to swallow in this country, but it's where we'll wind up - one way or another. Life extension/youth preservation/immortality research (what kills more that diseases of age, eventually? We also use "old" as a synonym for "decrepit", but when we decouple "years alive" from "likely level of health/ability to be independent", this problem goes away), mass roboticization (to care for the infirm, do all the menial work, etc.), and of course, a reworked economic system where everyone is guaranteed a basic income. It won't be an easy road, and it's not coming any time soon - too many are too inured to our current systems because of ideology (particuarly ideologies informed by the Just World fallacy, Social Darwinism, the belief that starvation is better than sloth, and mindless anti-Utopianism) will fight tooth and nail against anything that might lead to a world like this. In the end they'll lose, but perhaps history will credit them for making sure we don't go too far too fast.