Cory Doctorow on Nostr: It's true that older people are doing a lot of consumption spending - but the bulk of ...
It's true that older people are doing a lot of consumption spending - but the bulk of that spending isn't on cruises to Alaska to see the melting glaciers, it's on *health care*. Old people aren't luxuriating in their joint replacements and coronary bypasses. Calling this "consumption" is deliberately misleading.
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