Too many? In the UK a portion of wages was paid into pensions to provide for payment of people when they retired. Here in Australia it's called superannuation.
The problem is that stupid and greedy politicians have not properly regulated the business so that money actually funded has been wasted on speculative rather than secure investment like government bonds.
A friend put his teacher's super into debentures suposedly policed by the Queensland State Trustee. When the borrower ceased payment of interest it then took the trustee more than a year to do anything. By then it was too late. More than 10 years on investors have been defrauded of 90% of their investment, the perps are still running free and the cost to the taxpayer of some 20,000 previously self funded retirees has been about $5 billion! And that was merely one of many!
I believe that similar has occurred in the UK with its pension funds.
And of course that doesn't explain the extortionate fees charged by banks & by other fund managers. Another acquaintance had his savings reduced from $100k+ to $92k overnight when an Australian bank transferred his money from one account to another when he reached 65!

You seem to have all missed the point of this post, which is that there are too many elderly people in the "civilised" world for their children to support.

Seniors are more likely to have underlying conditions that allow the virus to take a stronger hold on them than healthy youngsters. All the more reason to (1) be fully vaccinated and “boostered” and (2) live a healthier lifestyle.

I call bullshit here. Are nations having to support more aging, pension drawing people in our societies?In America an insurance program called Social Security is funding Medicare and Medicaid. Society is not doing very much of this or using funds that are needed elsewhere. The rich have nothing to gain by killing us off either. The reason why is that Social Security is an insurance program. I am amazed at those who cannot get this through their heads. Yes, the GOP thinks we all need a 401K started at birth to get rid of the Social Security they do not like but that idea will not work. For those who can remember, Trump was going to start in with Social Security when he was re-elected. He said so publicly and he did not mean he would give us a better system.

Nature's way of thinning the herd.

If they refuse to acknowledge the reality of this global pandemic, they are idiots.
If people don't want to heed sound medical advice, if they refuse to get vaccinated or wear a mask, that's their choice.
If they get sick and die, that's on them.
I'm fine with their removal from the population.

Where I'm having trouble is with allowing them to get away with endangering others.
Their choice effects everyone around them.
I don't think they have the right to put other people at risk.

The funny part is; more have died under Biden with a vaccine than Trump without a vaccine.

In my opinion, Mother Nature has no purpose, no agenda. It just does what it does obeying the laws that govern it.

Get vaccinated, if you are then get your booster.

People die everyday but in a pandemic it's easier to die if you are stupid and don't take proper steps to protect yourself and others from contagion.