Debunking the myth that an ageing population is a problem.
An observation based on my experience with physics and economics: both fields create models that predict how nature will behave, often people for economists. Then we observe nature and people. In physics if nature contradicts our predictions, we say we're wrong and the model needs fixing. When people behave differently than economists predict, economists say people are wrong and need fixing. Economists claim that a country's or the world's population growing too old creates economic problems, like requiring too many young people to take care of old people or pensions will go bankrupt. These claims filter to the rest of us, who don't look at their assumptions to see the flaws. You need only consider that humans lived with close to no growth for hundreds…
