These elderly people would receive better treatment and more time off. Unpaid labor was also abolished, and any work would earn them a small number of labor points.
Once they turned one hundred, they officially reached the age at which they were allowed to stop working. But with no pensions, most elderly people who were still mentally sound and capable of working would continue to work!
Xi Yan's earlier cuts and abolition of mandatory retirement pensions had certainly paid off. All at once, plenty more people became available to work in the service sector. No more idle old geezers sitting at home producing no resources!
Xi Yan had even vigorously promoted a new funeral practice: biological burial!
After they died, their bodies would all be sent into the power grid for biomass power generation, until every scrap of organic matter had been completely burned away and only their skeletons remained. Those skeletons would then be ground into bone meal, made into fertilizer, and sent to the agricultural districts!
Xi Yan called it "the perfect cycle."
Although some objections had been raised when he first proposed it, they were merely opinions, after all. Xi Yan had not listened.
Later, the Ministry of Culture launched a frenzied propaganda campaign, declaring that this burial method was great and embodied both selfless dedication and collectivism. It saved land that would otherwise be occupied by cemeteries and produced more resources. Most people ultimately accepted it.
The system had been in place for half a year without any problems.
Thinking about it now, Xi Yan really was a genius!
The undisputed king of ideas in Stellaris!
Xi Yan strolled leisurely through the university campus. He noticed that he seemed to be in the square in front of a teaching building, with a small monument standing