People drop dead on their 50th birthday.
The bad news is that about 40% (assuming you work age 20-70) of the workforce disappears over night. They are also the most experienced ones. Every workplace would be crippled due to lack of man hours available.
The good news is we don’t have to pay for elderly care since just about every one can work themselves into the grave.
about 40% (assuming you work age 20-70) of the workforce disappears over night
Although OP said “drops dead”, so suddenly there are a LOT of corpses to deal with too. Fun!
Logan’s Run (1976 movie) save they were expected to all die at 30, and not by dropping dead.
What would happen? Nothing good, even though it may look otherwise on the surface. There would be a lot more fascism (aka, violence) and a lot more lies (aka, not be willing to think by oneself or let anyone think by themselves). Obviously, people in power would find workarounds to exempt themselves from that (stupid) fate because, unsurprisingly, most people don’t like to apply to themselves the same rules they want to apply to others, even less so rules that are supposed to kill them or reduce their hold on power. While many other people, that have no power to resist or protest said rule, would be more than happy to suddenly get access to any form of power to avoid said fate… and just like that they would demonstrate how they’re exactly the same type of persons as those in power, btw.
Is your question based on the 2011 movie “In time”? It gets a 6.7 but back then It found it quite enjoyable. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/
The premise different but it has the same “fixed” end date
There goes free child care.
Long term care and senior types of insurance dies over night.
Pay for your job will get adjusted so that you basically will have to work until you die. Company owners will not allow you to retire. They will find a way to screw you over.
People will care a little less about long term injuries. If the injury won’t really affect you until later in life it won’t be a cause for concern.
That’s certainly how Americans would respond. /s
“How does society change” implies that there are humans older than 50 when this comes into effect. There are ~3000 billionaire with the average age being 67 years old.
Way I see it… the world economy just got a 21 trillion USD stimulus package.
Doubt that is what happens, unless that billionaire is really stupid.
They already have their estate (money, properties, etc) in a trust fund. When the current beneficiary dies the trust has a secondary beneficiary listed. There is no inheritance tax, the next person in line just gets access (the benefits) to the trust. If that beneficiary dies, the next person on the list just gets the benefits of the trust.
Generally speaking who ever is the current beneficiary lists who gets it after them. Kind of like how we do a will.
Pay for your job will get adjusted so that you basically will have to work until you die. Company owners will not allow you to retire. They will find a way to screw you over.
I mean, if they could do that, they would have already. People dying at either 50 or ~80 only means so much.
People start to do all kinds of risky things shortly before that date.
Retirement age in America still gets raised.
The life insurance industry collapses overnight. So does the senior care industry. The greeting card industry also takes a hit.
People spend their last year, from 49 on, partying like Jagger.
I’ve seen this movie. It involves FISH! AND PLANKTON! AND SEA GREENS! AND PROTEIN FROM THE SEA!
Don’t forget Sanctuary!
Looks at newspaper frontpage
Celebrates
(y’all know why 😏)
People knowing when they die at the latest will probably mean more than it being 50. At some point after abt 45 life becomes either (finances allowing) a hedonistic spree, gracefully putting your affairs in order, and/or an anxious nightmare watching the hours tick by. Not sure if people will come together enough to demand a kind of pension to allow for a year or two of calm for that, but anyone that can, will take ot anyway.
People will focus on their health a little less when there’s no time for many lifestyle-related illnesses to manifest.
The speed of scientific development slows. People have less time to learn, experiment, and mentor the next generation.
Menus drop all senior citizen discounts!
But I’m ordering on behalf of my great grandpa right here
points to the skeleton in my suitcase
Carousel?
We’ll end up sending out more expeditions
is it retroactive?
