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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you seriously think that the majority of people should become elders?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Americans over the age of 65 represent less than 20% of the population. The group of people 60 to 64 is 6.5% of the population. That's not even a quarter of the population.

As to your question, yes. Even if it was 90% of the population that was 60+. being an elder, senior citizen, a member of the grandparent generation, olds, or whatever you'd like to call them has more to do with the individual's age than how many of them there are.