[carlosjobim]

If all the money of a country is not locked up in real estate of the olds, then that money could be invested in small and large businesses, in infrastructure, in young workers being able to create a family, and even useful products and useful services.

But it seems that the entire world has decided that everything except real estate - even the continuation of the species through children - is just "pointless shit". Better to have a very expensive tomb to haunt.

It seems like we're just a few years away from when the elderly start demanding to be buried in their houses and have them sealed off for all future.