2030, Albert Brooks (3.0)
The basic premise of this book is very interesting: what happens when cancer is cured, people live much longer and the population ages accordingly? Albert Brooks looks at a possible future where the youth resent the ‘olds’ as a group that lives too long, no longer contributes, but has the voting power to keep all benefits for people their age. How would youth react, given they can’t afford insurance, owe for their large college bills and overall appear working to pay for the care of the older citizens? Add to his premise, a major earthquake that decimates LA and you have the setting in ‘2030’. My main issue with this book is that it’s an interesting premise, but it doesn’t seem to have a suitable resolution. I felt a quick rush at the end to tie things up, but while the pace accelerated, the old vs young quandary remained. Maybe I missed something? The other parallel story had to do with China’s involvement in rebuilding LA, which had an interesting path, but ignored the main issue of the aging population.
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