> Race is a social construct. Age is not. Mixing them up is fundamentally wrong and, I’d argue, dangerous.

Even worse. Our entire society, hell our biology is based on old people retiring to leave space for the young to develop themselves. When you got gerontocrats in power for too long and after them boomers, all you'll end with in 20 years is a bunch of dead boomers and gen silent, and a bunch of gen y/z that never had the opportunity to actually learn leadership skills and failing spectacularly as a result.

> Our entire society, hell our biology is based on old people retiring to leave space for the young to develop themselves

This strikes me as a spin on the lump-of-labor fallacy.

The problem with a gerontocracy is you have masses in cognitive and physical decline at the peaks of power. Absent that condition, the model isn’t fundamentally broken. (You would probably see more patricide in hereditary lines…) Old people aren’t a problem, aged people in command are.

That’s what makes the comparison to race interesting—a society that brain drains gets wealthier for everyone. If we made our immigration 65+ only, on the other hand, it would be an almost-immediate disaster.

> Our entire society, hell our biology is based on old people retiring to leave space for the young to develop themselves.

No it is not. People retire, because they dont have strength to work anymore. They have no duty to give up their lives just because you want to take it from them.