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In many countries the proportion of elderly people is increasing. Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages?

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Nowadays, the number of old generations in some countries is higher than
others
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. It has been a widespread argument that
this
 phenomenon gives positive and negative impacts.
However
, I believe that the drawbacks do outweigh the benefits. On the one hand, the elderly is
a
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vulnerable
who
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and
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 have minimum
energies
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 and tend to give a loss
potential
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.
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another word
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, if unproductive
people
 increase,
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the country
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country
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country's
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 expenditure will
also
 rise.
For instance
, a government
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 works for a
country
that is
 full of elderly tend to spend more money to pay
insurances
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 than those which did not.
Furthermore
, most of the elderly
also
 have a fixed mindset
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 is trapped in
a prior knowledge
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 and stand for seniority since they ignore an unlearned process.
As a result
, the innovation goes slowly and creativity
stucks
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stocks
 on its way.
On the other hand
, older
people
 have rich experiences and young
people
 may have an opportunity to learn from their mistakes. If their experiences become
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patronage for juniors, they will absorb the best practices and
do
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not repeat their failure.
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, in
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decision making
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,
elderly
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the elderly
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 can gives
insight
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the insight
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 to map which way is ideal to step. To summarize,
comparing
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 with
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an adult
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adult
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adults
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, experiences are the older
people
's strengths.
However
, I do believe that having more elderly in a
country
 brings disadvantages
such
 as reducing productivity and charging more
cost
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. If so, retirement may become an alternative way for the old
people
 so the younger can dominate the
country
 and establish
the
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development.
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