Soylent Green was a 1973 science fiction movie with a storyline that happens in the future in 2022. Back then it looked like far in the future but now it is just around the corner.
The short version of the story is that New York City has 44 million people living in, it is polluted and overcrowded. Most of the population survives on biscuits produced by the Soylent Corporation, whose newest product is called Soylent Green...
At the end of the movie it turns out that old people are euthanized and their remains are used as substance for the Soylent Green. So the current population is feeding on the older generation.
I think that is where this society is heading. Being old is now against the norm. If one is old he is not hireable. If one is old he does not count anymore because he does not know what he is talking about. A lifetime of experience do not count at all. If one is old he can not be taught new things. If one is old he is useless and does nothing just takes up space.
The only thing old people are good for is to take their money. If I go to a store and want to buy something nobody will tell me: please we can't take your money, you are old! But if I would try to get hired for a job I will be told: we can't hire you, you are old!
I think becoming a biscuit look more and more realistic. Who knows that by 2022 the world will not come to that.
That is why I don't like young people. They are the ones who make us look useless and they are the ones who try to take us out of circulation.
But if they would realize that everything they know and everything they do is built on our hard work, our sweat and on our experience.
I suggest that old(er) people unite and outlaw young people before the opposite happens.
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