I am a middle-aged man. For most of my life, the United States’s working-age population, as characterized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, has grown at an annual rate of about 1% or more. That means that over any given five-year stretch, the working-age population (15 to 64) has grown by more than 5%.

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