This has been said since at least the 1970s. I’m not going to sign up for a ruinous bank pension plan, no matter how much the privatization propaganda insists.

The far scarier timebomb is in all of those aging Europeans getting brainworms and deciding to pull up the ladder after them leaving young people utterly screwed like they did in the US…

Large generations of older people pose a lethal threat to the foundations of social safety nets precisely because they force society to deny mortality the same way these generations do as within the myopia of being part of the generation that always occupied the center of gravity very little thought about who comes next after the show moves on to new main characters is ever actually done.

In this sense, these generational “bulges” can be thought of as unified broad delusions of immortality or at least of history having ended and from a policy standpoint there is no other way to approach dealing with the resulting tidal waves of irrationality and self-defeating austerity that buckle the societies that experience them to their knees.

This article seems to be entirely written from within that delusion, unable to question or indeed even perceive the nature of its confinement of narrative.

The answer of course is immigration and welcoming new people into your society and look how most older Europeans talk about immigration, it is almost as disgusting as how most older people in the US talk about it. There is a pathetic lack of positive vision about the potential of human beings with different shades of skin, languages or religion and I am getting really tired of it.