(July 12, 2024 at 8:18 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: I don't think there should be an upper age limit for presidency because it seems that medical science is advancing so that people will live longer, and maybe improve the quality of life for older people. For example, I watched 60 minutes a few days ago and they said how 90% of people born today will live to be 100 years old. And if 90% live to be hundred years old then I guess 30% will leave to be 150.
No the upper limit is pretty much at about 120, and I'm very sceptical of the "90% live to 100" figure too. We have serious trouble getting the average age past the early eighties and in some countries like the US the limit has plateaued lower than that. Plus there's also the issue that unless there's a severe correcting of the economic system (either through heavy wealth taxation or revolution), the prosperity gap is going to get ever wider with social mobility stopping stone dead, that's not a good recipe for extending life for most people.
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