Adding a model of mental health to the game

Oh I don’t wish ill on anyone! I’m old enough to have solidarity with the retired now :smiley:

But although the retired consume goods and services, they do not produce any goods or services that get counted as GDP (granted they can provide childcare etc, although less no now that families are more geographically mobile).
As far as economic growth is concerned, its production that counts, not consumption, which will always globally match production.
So if the state retirement cost drops because the elderly die young, that money is either spent elsewhere by the govt, or returned to the working-age citizens through lower taxes.

Also generational wealth will be passed down regardless of what age people are when they die, surely?

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