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Emily Routbort

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27 October 2019

Are There Too Many Old People?

     Studies show that there are too many people over the age of 65 and there are less 5 year olds in 
comparison. This is viewed as bad because they are not working and are consuming. I read that many countries are having this problem and I viewed that the problem was partially due to the culture of the countries. For instance the one child policy in China created a large age gap and and uneven amount of age groups. I think that people are so involved in becoming successful and they grow old and "forget to have children." Children are so important because they are the next generation that will carry the world, but we can't have a large baby boomer era because that results in a large and uneven population of elderlies. Which is something that the US is struggling with now. While elderly people have so much knowledge and have value too many people, they are not contributing to the world. They do consume products which does create jobs but the amount of elderlies are bringing population issues to light. I thought of ways to solve this problem, but the only way to solve it would to be, get rid of some of the old people which is probably not something that is possible. Something that could help for now is promoting jobs that are easy and takes little work. This could help elderlies retire later as well as contribute for a longer time. Overall this situation needs time to heal and people need to continue to produce. We need even age groups which is something that is very challenging to control.  This problem is something that is not easy to solve. 

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