[zepto]

> increasing productivity

Is it, in any real terms?

> and improved health care

Doesn’t this make the problem worse? I.e. longer lifespan for the aging population, and even more demand for healthcare professionals from the limited set of younger workers.

[shoto_io]

I'm talking about "health span" and not "life span".

[zepto]

They aren’t independent. Also you said ‘healthcare’. If healthcare produces health span, then it is still being consumed.