Maybe I’m old fashioned but I think there will be an option 3, multi-generations living in the same house ala “The Waltons.”I don’t think we need to kill off the old people at all, although the families will have to assume more responsibilities for themselves. Just because people are old, they are not useless. You might have Mom and Dad out working while the grandparents help care for the kids and so on, to fill in the gaps the parents leave. I think maybe the period from World War II to now has been an aberration, the norm has been where the families stayed close by or in the same house with multi-generations, it was like that before World War II and during the Depression. We might be returning to that norm.
Not an option for my family, unfortunately. You see back in the walton’s day they actually hired young men and paid them sufficient to raise a family.
Now they neither hire them nor pay them.
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They came first for the trade unionists but I didn’t protest because I wasn’t a trade unionist . . .
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And finally, they came for grandpaw . . . and I realized I was the grandpaw.
Useless eaters they call us now.
For the good of society . . . and global warming . . .
/sarc