One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is

There's a reason why every American worker is paying 6% of their income to give checks to the richest cohort in society, and every politician is afraid to touch the program.

1 in 2 Americans are over 39. 1 in 1 Americans have a governor over 39.

Ten in ten children have parents who are older than them

Well, one in twenty people is a doctor and nine in ten go see one if they have a stomach ulcer.

The term "Senate" comes from the Latin word "senex" meaning "old man", and obviously the US inherited the term "Senate" from ancient Rome. This is a basic structure of society.

The issue is that this particular group of people older than 65 at this particular time in world history (which you happen to be living in) are Boomers who are probably the most child-like, foolish, and ignorant generation of people in world history, due to the circumstances of their upbringing (post-WW2, high technology, opulence, drug use, sexual revolution, peace in the developed world).

This isn't ageism, since normally old people do tend to have more wisdom and knowledge than young people.

There is something that really went wrong with the Boomer generation. The goal of every society is basically to survive their Boomer generation which many are not really seeming to manage.

Ageism.

Numbers, but I couldn't find insights in the article. Is there anything worthy of take-away?

Yes, in general people place a lot of value in the wisdom that comes with age so long as the person isn’t senile.

Obviously with autocrats this isn’t applicable but there’s nothing inherently nonsensical or inexplicable about why mostly old dudes rule much of the world.

In 2026 scare quotes around the word "leader" should be obligatory in all cases.