Just go with the minimum retirement age. Earliest age to claim retirement benefits in the US is 62. If you wanna be generous, full benefits start at 66 years and 10 months.
on the surface that sounds reasonable, linking the age to run with the age to retire. If you’re going by todays “retirement” age and social security age…
But what will happen in practice is then the politicians will vote to raise the age of retirement, thereby giving them more time in office. Meanwhile, we’re gonna have a lot more Walmart Greeters than we have positions. (assuming your local Wallyworld still has greeters… and that the greeter isn’t AI)
Given the likely advances in science and medicine, this would be the exact wrong time to start imposing arbitrary and capricious age limits for public office.
The morons in charge are doing a lot to kneecap everything including this, true. But this is not the only country doing such work, thankfully, so some of it is far beyond the grubby paws of right-wing assholes like Taco, fElon, and Bobby Brainworm, thankfully.
It’s not likely to happen overnight, in my view. And the thing is, it takes so long to change rules like this to adapt to new realities. I think if we put some arbitrary cutoff into place just before people start living longer, it will take a long time to roll it back.
I happen to think the age thing is a gigantic distraction, just like term limits are. I think people falling for either of these or both are missing what the real problems are.
science and medicine mostly prolong life or save lives.
they can (in a very limited manner) help somewhat with tiredness at old age.
healthy brain function is not improved that much with the help of health industry.
and we need those who their thinking is not fossilized. I don’t mean that as insult, it is just they way of life.
as I said they can of course be advisers.
are you saying most 110 years old are capable of holding highest offices?
like house of representatives? they need to move alot and talk to alot of people.
it is very tiring.
if not at 110 then at some age most of us are not really gonna be great at those “jobs”.
and another side to my point is that old people are gonna set in their politics and also is they survive the politics circus (many many terms) then they become like a family so they are not gonna rock the boat, so they usually become THE status quo.
look at Bernie and his support for jewish isis.
also they are not really good at fixing new problems (or even old ones) with new tools.
I’m saying that all these things are not immutable laws in how humans will age, forever. Most especially related to things like both cognitive function, which is mostly what we are talking about, although the physical may have dramatic changes in the near horizon, too.
Just knowing how slow government tends to react to drastic changes in tech, I think putting an arbitrary age limit in right now is foolhardy, and besides, I think age is largely a gigantic distraction that has very very little to do with our current problems.
In my opinion there should be an age limit for public office. I think 70 should be the max. I my even go to 65.
Just go with the minimum retirement age. Earliest age to claim retirement benefits in the US is 62. If you wanna be generous, full benefits start at 66 years and 10 months.
on the surface that sounds reasonable, linking the age to run with the age to retire. If you’re going by todays “retirement” age and social security age…
But what will happen in practice is then the politicians will vote to raise the age of retirement, thereby giving them more time in office. Meanwhile, we’re gonna have a lot more Walmart Greeters than we have positions. (assuming your local Wallyworld still has greeters… and that the greeter isn’t AI)
Two term limits for everyone in government.
Well it’s this old folks making the laws…
Given the likely advances in science and medicine, this would be the exact wrong time to start imposing arbitrary and capricious age limits for public office.
The likely advances now that the NIH was shut down?
The morons in charge are doing a lot to kneecap everything including this, true. But this is not the only country doing such work, thankfully, so some of it is far beyond the grubby paws of right-wing assholes like Taco, fElon, and Bobby Brainworm, thankfully.
No. Once they achieve longevity, THEN look at it again maybe, but as of TODAY, many of the reps are too fucking old!
I thought Charles Darwin was smart, smh.
It’s not likely to happen overnight, in my view. And the thing is, it takes so long to change rules like this to adapt to new realities. I think if we put some arbitrary cutoff into place just before people start living longer, it will take a long time to roll it back.
I happen to think the age thing is a gigantic distraction, just like term limits are. I think people falling for either of these or both are missing what the real problems are.
science and medicine mostly prolong life or save lives. they can (in a very limited manner) help somewhat with tiredness at old age. healthy brain function is not improved that much with the help of health industry.
and we need those who their thinking is not fossilized. I don’t mean that as insult, it is just they way of life.
as I said they can of course be advisers.
are you saying most 110 years old are capable of holding highest offices? like house of representatives? they need to move alot and talk to alot of people. it is very tiring.
if not at 110 then at some age most of us are not really gonna be great at those “jobs”.
and another side to my point is that old people are gonna set in their politics and also is they survive the politics circus (many many terms) then they become like a family so they are not gonna rock the boat, so they usually become THE status quo. look at Bernie and his support for jewish isis.
also they are not really good at fixing new problems (or even old ones) with new tools.
I’m saying that all these things are not immutable laws in how humans will age, forever. Most especially related to things like both cognitive function, which is mostly what we are talking about, although the physical may have dramatic changes in the near horizon, too.
Just knowing how slow government tends to react to drastic changes in tech, I think putting an arbitrary age limit in right now is foolhardy, and besides, I think age is largely a gigantic distraction that has very very little to do with our current problems.