- 23 Feb 2023 23:15
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Medical science is extending life in many causes. It;s not extending mental ability with it.
Increasingly in the US incumbents win. Vested interests get entrenched.
Making room for young talent is not going to happen unless something actually changes,
Just hoping trends somehow turn around is not effective policy,
late wrote:In the Commonwealth Saga, my 2nd favorite scifi book series, biology had been brought to heel. As long as you could afford it, you could live as long as you wanted. A couple hundred years was typical, but the insanely rich (the richest owned an entire planet, and had a wine estate the size of Texas) had too much fun to bother with something as boring as dying.
That guy that owned his own planet, none at the executive level (and there were thousands) were younger than 5th generation. This was math, not skill. The young could have great lives, but replacing the elders was simply not a possibility.
As with most things, I seek balance, like Lady Justice with her blindfold and scales...
But it's not hard to see the conservatism built into the system. That isn't skill, just math, getting there first is half the fight.
I'm open to ideas, even if I am not impressed with term or age limits. In fact, Biden is an eloquent argument that age shouldn't be a barrier. His experience has enabled him to avoid pitfalls his predecessors would have fallen into. And many of them did just that.
To the reactionaries in the crowd, no, I just don't think the knee jerk reaction is likely to our best option.
The Brits have a tradition of making room for young talent. It's not enough, but it's a good place to start talking.
Medical science is extending life in many causes. It;s not extending mental ability with it.
Increasingly in the US incumbents win. Vested interests get entrenched.
Making room for young talent is not going to happen unless something actually changes,
Just hoping trends somehow turn around is not effective policy,