Never before in the United States, even going back to the Depression, had we experienced market corrections that were tied to such an important demographicfactor.
What turns this shift from demographic accounting to a social question is the pursuit-of-happiness factor: as a rule, do people live alone because they want to or because they have to?
As long as entitlement programs designed with an assumption of frailty and inability to produce are adjusted to accomodate these trends, this becomes a large mitigation factor for the smaller youthful employee base providing for a larger elderly non-working demographic.