>>>A way to the future
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>>Get rid of everyone over 30.
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>I understand something similar has been suggested in several science fiction stories. Not as the author's ideal for a future, but as a grim outlook.
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>In another memorable SF-story, the hero gets convinced that the only way to save the future is to provoke a nuclear war - to reduce the population.

In yet another variant of the kill-anyone-over-thirty story, the proponents of the idea see it come to fruit... twenty years after they suggested it.