to a somewhat lesser extent in the west. The idea that we're going to get looked after, in Victorian times, the old were looked after by the unmarried daughters. And the idea that that might be true nowadays would be regarded, I think, with a certain degree of amazement in our current societies. The old either get along on their own, or if they're incapacitated and civilian incapacitated, they have to go into various specialist old people's homes. And that latter costs a great deal of money. So, I wanted, there's so many different parts of this argument that I want to dig into. Let's, since you brought up China, China has a very interesting demographic curve because of the one child policy. So, there's going to be a period in time in the near future where the stress caused by the fact that the dependency ratios blow out is going to be greater, I guess, than, is it fair to say that any other country, is that accurate? As great as any other country, I wouldn't say necessarily great. It's (18/43)
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