The USA is facing demographic pressure from an aging population

In the next decades this is going to cause increased taxes on the young and/or cut benefits for the old.

Possible future:

Many diseases are especially dangerous for the old. Antibiotic resistance is on the rise. Elizabethkingia anophelis, the bacteria that has infected 50+ people in the Midwest USA and killed nearly 20 of them or some other contaigon goes on to kill large swaths of elderly citizens across the USA and saving social security to the sad relief of other citizens. 50 years later the country is back in the same boat because people and politicians suck at planning for the future.

Elizabethkingia, the rare and deadly bacteria that’s sickening people in the Midwest, explained
There’s still a lot to learn.

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