I was having a really inneresting discussion about this at the bar of my local hostelry on Friday night with our resident grouch who is generally quite excoriating about the Gen Y, and he seems to think that life isn't going to be much fun for us when we're all old.
Let's face it - when some of us are in our dotage the millenials & their offspring will be running the show.
What with their safe spaces and general namby-pambyness, I think it's entirely possible that they'll enact legislation to prevent anyone over a certain age from driving a car. I can also see a situation where old people will be forced out of their homes & into state approved care homes via punitive taxation or more direct methods.
The future could be rather scary for us budding crumblies.
Besides, as they all spend way too much time in cyberspace and somehow believe that science fiction is going to become reality (c/f the thread bout simulated reality, belief that immortality will be achieved within their lifetimes) maybe a type of Logan's Run world will come to pass & nobody is allowed to live past a certain age. Except, of course, the elite who can afford the elixir of immortality.
What do you think?
Let's face it - when some of us are in our dotage the millenials & their offspring will be running the show.
What with their safe spaces and general namby-pambyness, I think it's entirely possible that they'll enact legislation to prevent anyone over a certain age from driving a car. I can also see a situation where old people will be forced out of their homes & into state approved care homes via punitive taxation or more direct methods.
The future could be rather scary for us budding crumblies.
Besides, as they all spend way too much time in cyberspace and somehow believe that science fiction is going to become reality (c/f the thread bout simulated reality, belief that immortality will be achieved within their lifetimes) maybe a type of Logan's Run world will come to pass & nobody is allowed to live past a certain age. Except, of course, the elite who can afford the elixir of immortality.
What do you think?
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