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Re:A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, t... by cosmojg on Saturday July 22, 2023 @09:25PM (#36831710)
The available data[1] suggest that society at large benefits from increased productivity regardless of whether the individuals driving that productivity are 65 or 25. Fortunately, we live in a positive-sum economy where working harder and longer not only grants you a bigger slice of the pie, it increases the size of the entire pie itself.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-vs-happiness

Re:A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, t... by Retric on Saturday July 22, 2023 @11:52PM (#36832408)
Be careful extrapolating macro scale effects into the micro scale. GDP is a function of a huge number of things and its correlation with positive outcomes doesn’t mean everything that boosts GDP is a net positive. Many forms of economic inefficiency end up boosting GDP.