On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Surabhi Tomar <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > > What, to me, are even more interesting than the scientific angles are > > the social ones. What are the implications of (potentially) 7-8 > > generations existing at the same time, as a matter of course? Malthus > > comes to mind. > > That would depend on whether the female reproductive age also increases > with the life span. If it does, women will have children later and we might > actually end up having only 3-4 generations living together. > > If it doesn't, then the social implications of men having to live more than > half their lives without a sexual partner would be interesting. > I'm interested in how the Economics of the retiree safety net would work out. I already see a generation in India that retired at 55 living into their 70's and 80's on their pensions. In some cases the pensions are index linked and the retirees do OK, and in other the retirees are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet. Luckily for India, the young population tends to mask the system having to pay pensions for way past what the actuaries had planned. Thaths -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
