Worldbuilding Weekend Prompt #48 - Pensioning off the Elders

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Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !

I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from @worldbuilding they're just an extra opportunity if you have a writing itch you want to scratch. 😀

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The prompt this week is - Pensioning Off The Elders

How the elderly are treated says a lot about a society. Tell me a story of what happens to them in your setting ! Are they looked after by their families as revered and wise elders ? Or maybe the state provides a pension - generous or otherwise, and how is it funded ? Are the elderly a valuable source of knowledge or treated as an embarrassing burden ? Maybe they are just euthanised and eaten or turned into protein animal feed. So many possibilities, I'd love to hear about them !

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Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.

This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.

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Guidelines

I stole these guidelines straight from @worldbuilding prompts (I hope that's okay !), I couldn't have written them any better myself....

  • Prompt replies may be anything! Art, game assets, stories, worldbuilding details, fake wiki entries, maps... whatever you want to create!
  • Please ensure you reply to this post with a link to your reply
  • Posting in or cross-posting to the Worldbuilding community is highly encouraged
  • Use the hashtag #worldbuilding
  • Prompt replies can be any length.

Some other neat communities for writing that you might want to check out are:

It can be a lot of fun to mix and match our prompts with some of these other community prompts.

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Nice topic, I will definitely write about this because the elderly are not getting what they really need in general

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Thanks for the post - it ended up being the only one, so 2 SBI's are on the way !

I'll have to try this !PIMP command 😁 I've been trying to map out all the tipping tokens in a spreadsheet, but there are quite a few where I can't find any info on how many have to be held for each level of calls, and this is one of them.....

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