Many Rust Belt cities need investment. They've vast disused smokestack industrial areas with power, water and sewer. They have millions of obsolete structures begging for the wrecking ball.

Data center operators could be incentivized to demolish toxic eyesores and replace them with clean data centers. The low population impact from data centers won't overcrowd Rust Belt areas while contributing to their development.

Development deals could be generous while requiring demolition of areas not yet planned for development. The closer they become to greenfield sites the better. Obsolete cities whose reason for being evaporated still retain road, rail and power.
Adaptive reuse beats developing rural farmland etc.

This isn't like manually digging through dead tree archives in some musty basement.

Old people lingering longer instead of passing away has no benefits for the species, only emotional benefits (which will vary according to circumstance!) for the old (most of) who instinctively fear death.

The species thrives because individual lives expire. Most lives contribute nothing so prolonging them does nothing useful for our species. Death really IS natures change agent.

Fear of death does not in any way make death somehow wrong.

Turnover replaces intellectually ossified old minds with new minds in new bodies. Most people are alive because we instinctively fear death. (Much of that fear fades over time.)

It couldn't do worse.

To reproduce is to guarantee an innocent person all the suffering and tedium of a lifetime. I cannot imagine a more sadistic act than inflicting life.

There is no altruistic reason to have children. No one suffers when a person opts out of reproduction. To not reproduce is the ethical choice.

The editors don't edit or care enough to listen. The owners don't care either, despite the old Slashdot having vastly more users.

Being "Slashdotted" by users flocking to mentioned sites went away along with Slashdot influence.

They'll likely sell tons of them to users who don't need more than what those specs deliver. In ancient times netbooks sold well despite weak specs.

No electronic records are "safe", unless air-gapped.

It's not practical to have widely used systems and completely effective security. Humans and computers are inherently fallible.

Scapegoating does not exclude guilt. People lacking political pull are easily fed to the lions.