>>1455192I wrote a small essay on the subject, and then deleted it all so I'll keep this short. It is a complicated subject. Things will change of course, but all our problems will not go away, the next generation will face different problems, as baby boomers faced different problems than us. The generational problem the boomers faced was that they were the largest generation, in terms of the percentage of the population they made up, ever born in the US, and so when they grew up they felt underrepresented. The problem went away for them as they aged as every generation after them represented less and less of the population. Here's the complicated part though, that trend of decreasing birth rates has continued, and is only going to get worse as time progresses. As time goes on, the old will become a larger and larger percentage of the population, so even once the Boomers go, the Gen Xer's will just take over. If things don't change within the next ten years, Social Security won't even be sustainable any more. If you want an idea of what this will look like, look at the Japanese, they are ahead of the curve on this; they still use fax machines because the older generation can't understand newer technology. So unless we find some way to tackle lowering birth rates, other than just importing more immigrants, things will just get worse and worse until it becomes a society centered around the old.
>>1455194Shut up.
