drain on whom? some capitalists get to extract rent, some medical expenses, some simply have them as customers. retirees provide large amounts of productive labor in childcare and through volunteering, which don’t directly profit anyone but allows the capitalists smoother operations.

there is a specific current amongst like Tech billionaires who whine about ‘birth rate crisis’ which don’t have much interest in elderly people (because their fingers aren’t in those pots), but it’s difficult to imagine them getting to unilaterally lower life expectancies instead of pushing for targeted culling of unworthy (poor/nonwhite) elderly people