[mseepgood]

Old people don't innovate? Sounds like an ageist stereotype.

[FredPret]

Questions about whole population groups like these are best understood not through stereotypes or anti-stereotypes but through statistics.

I found this study [0] that examines the relationship between age and things like winning the Nobel prize or coming up with a "great invention".

Looks like there's a peak in the late 30s and that peak is slowly creeping up as the population ages.

But it might also be that you need a population of 20-year-olds to actually adopt the new inventions.

[0] https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/jones-ben/htm/a...

[j_maffe]

Retired people don't innovate, simply because they don't work.

[RandomThoughts3]

Most old people don’t work and a significant portion of them can’t. If you really think an aging population doesn’t have an impact on a country overall output, I have a bridge to sell you.