Wow - this reminds me of a sketch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg

"I’m not saying do it, I’m just saying run it through the computer and see if it would work."

Not cool. Please don't do this here.

This is one of the most disgusting and repulsive comments I've ever read on HN.

These are people - my parents, my in-laws, and my sister-in-law are all in this age group, as I'm sure a lot of posters here are as well.

These are human beings like you are I. Please have a little more respect.

??

I'm not saying I want this to happen. This would be my parents too, mate. But it's just the morbid reality of the situation. OP was talking about the "bright side", well after the dust settles this is an upside.

Damn, that's some dark thinking. Really stretching the definition of "bright side"..

And if everyone died all problems would be resolved. You're not wrong (or maybe you are; perhaps those people add more economic value that you give them credit for, even indirectly), but there's difference between pursuing a better world and resolving problems like they're tech support tickets.

My god, at the end of the day these are still human beings. "Only" a million, thats a massive number.

This is gross economy-over-people type thinking. Please focus on humans first, and then the rest.

It's crass but the implications in demographic shift is interesting to think about. There's massive ramification to society from funding allocations to changes in voting pattern and national identity when the virus disproportionately eliminates an age bracket. And all the 2nd order knock on affects. Demographics is destiny.

man, ethical considerations aside - lets just say i strongly disagree with you in ethical plane too and lets hope you were just controversial in order to explore the issue - you're wrong in pure logical economic sense. You're talking about market losing a million of active consumers in a consumer driven economy - that is recipe for bust, not boom.

Go back to Reddit...