*Warning: Rage Inducing* Older Americans Are Hoarding America's Potential [View all]

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It is not ageist to ask whether older people should be required to give more to younger Americans and national priorities — it is critical to the future of our democracy and society. America needs to confront gerontocracy before the system collapses under the weight of its inequality and injustice.

Older Americans deserve a say over the future even when they might not live to see it. But they do not deserve the stranglehold over it they currently enjoy through overrepresentation in elections, which produces too many regressive policies and too many seniors in the highest offices.

Older Americans are owed the care that everyone else funds. Indeed, they should get more of it than they get now — including funding for long-term care at home or in nursing homes. But they also need incentives to give up accumulated housing, jobs and wealth.

In little more than a century, the extension of life has transformed American and global politics. It turned older Americans, who had been one of the most underprivileged groups in the country, into some of the most overprivileged.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/opinion/ageism-gerontacracy-america.html

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Full disclosure: I'm Gen-X

WTF is this shit?
Old people are the problem?!?!?!?!

NO!!! THE PROBLEM IS BILLIONAIRES AND THEIR ENABLERS!!!!

I can't even with this nonsense.