For those who don’t want to read the whole thing:
They’re raising it to 70 for all people born after Dec 31st, 1970. Also apparently Denmark automatically increases the retirement age with life expectancy, revised every five years.
More bike lanes in Denmark = fewer kids getting run over by cars = higher average life expectancy since fewer people die when they are very young. Therefore, no pensions for 69 year olds. Amazing galaxy brain stuff.
The bit at the end about the retirement age being raised in France is also infuriating. It just “had to be pushed through parliament by President Emmanuel Macron without a vote”. It had to be! There was no alternative.
Well, you can look at life expectancy and healthy life expectancy at 60 as well.
That stat makes it even worse! The Danish government is shovelling its people from the workplace to the care home with no time for anything in between.
Well, no. About a decade of healthy life followed by disability and death.
Yes we have both exaggerated. It’s between 6 and 9 years for the numbers published in 2021 (an odd time). It likely does not include early symptoms occurring during that period preventing or limiting the things retired people would have generally expected to have been able to do in decades past. Since its a range it reduces some of the problems in identifying the mythical average person, but not entirely. Of course a great many people will fall outside of that range and decline much earlier, with some doing so much later. Etc etc etc.
None of this really matters though. People should be able to retire earlier like generations past, and slightly less death or sickness happening at a certain age is not a good reason to change the retirement age. It’s just governments who want to keep or give out tax cuts looking for ways to reduce services.
Insane
