[russellbeattie]

I don't think this is necessarily a good thing. The world would be a demonstrably better place if the average life expectancy had remained around 70, like it was the year I was born.

Every new generation deals with growing populations to one degree or a other. World population has doubled in my lifetime for example. But human society just isn't made to have so many long lived people hoarding wealth and power decades beyond what they historically have.

GenX finally outnumbers the Boomers, but that should have happened a decade ago. The damage they've inflicted on the younger generations is really incalculable.

I think as time goes by, we may have to decide that people over a certain age are to be legally treated the same as those under 18.

[president_zippy]

"One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic."

I suppose rooting for people to die doesn't sound barbarous, so long as you're not rooting for anyone in particular to die.

[chneu]

Yeah this is bad news from an environmental standpoint.

We can't stop our status symbol consumption and travel lifestyles. This is just more people to feed, which in our current broken system means more consumption and waste at insane scales.

[andrekandre]

  > The world would be a demonstrably better place if the average life expectancy had remained around 70, like it was the year I was born.

idk, the world was a totally messed-up place long before that...

  > The damage they've inflicted on the younger generations is really incalculable.

if you think that is bad, just wait until they solve aging itself...

imagine if we had to argue with 400 year old generals from colonial times.... or robber-barrons of 150+ years ago still trying to dominate everything.