Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How Shrinking Populations Determine Economic Growth || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. Those meds only get sold because the underlying healthcare service continues to recommend/prescribe them.
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  2. Problem is the rise in costs for retiree maintenance outpaces the gains in productivity, and doesn't look to improve as older folks generally decline in innovation and adoption of those improvements.
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  3. Peak worker age is also the cohort that drives innovation and adoption of productivity improvements, which would slow down as the worker pool ages. Hence why Japan discusses through their fax machines how robots will salvage their society, while much younger America is the one developing the AI required to make it a reality.
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  4. Probably not. They'll likely get sold off to some corporation to pay off terminal life expenses like geriatric medicine and aged care facilities, then rented out to younger folks.
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