Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How Old People Took Over The World" video.

  1. Rule by the old was societally normal for most of human history. Thing is since industrialization and especially computerization, that "wisdom" is increasingly obsolete -- we're no longer concerned about how to hunt and farm and know the local environmental patterns like all our ancestors had figured out, nowadays it's the youth teaching the elders how to "operate a remote control" (or an AI assistant) and think ahead on how to adapt it into life going forward. The main advantage of the elderly is they had their whole lives to build up their network of buddies, which is what politics is all about.
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  2. The only relevant experience the elderly have nowadays is in personal networking, especially since their youth wasn't so distracted by using telecommunication apps in between economic compulsions to uproot the whole household to move to the next job opportunity under globalized competition. But it's this face-time that's exactly what's demanded in business negotiations and backroom politics.
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  3. Although early retirement comes with its own risks, like the backlash in France and the stagnation in China. It's not so much the stoppage of work by age as the sharing of wealth by the oligarchs.
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