People drop dead on their 50th birthday.
There goes free child care.
People start to do all kinds of risky things shortly before that date.
Long term care and senior types of insurance dies over night.
Pay for your job will get adjusted so that you basically will have to work until you die. Company owners will not allow you to retire. They will find a way to screw you over.
People will care a little less about long term injuries. If the injury won’t really affect you until later in life it won’t be a cause for concern.
That’s certainly how Americans would respond. /s
“How does society change” implies that there are humans older than 50 when this comes into effect. There are ~3000 billionaire with the average age being 67 years old.
Way I see it… the world economy just got a 21 trillion USD stimulus package.
I’ve seen this movie. It involves FISH! AND PLANKTON! AND SEA GREENS! AND PROTEIN FROM THE SEA!
The life insurance industry collapses overnight. So does the senior care industry. The greeting card industry also takes a hit.
People spend their last year, from 49 on, partying like Jagger.
People knowing when they die at the latest will probably mean more than it being 50. At some point after abt 45 life becomes either (finances allowing) a hedonistic spree, gracefully putting your affairs in order, and/or an anxious nightmare watching the hours tick by. Not sure if people will come together enough to demand a kind of pension to allow for a year or two of calm for that, but anyone that can, will take ot anyway.
People will focus on their health a little less when there’s no time for many lifestyle-related illnesses to manifest.
The speed of scientific development slows. People have less time to learn, experiment, and mentor the next generation.
Looks at newspaper frontpage
Celebrates
(y’all know why 😏)
Retirement age in America still gets raised.
I imagine we probably ship people off to spend their last year or so away from society so nobody has to watch their loved ones die.
You go to the “retirement home” but it’s really just an all inclusive resort. You just spend that last year partying harder than you ever have your whole life.
