With the news about the French President's decicion to unilaterally raise the retirement age, I see quite a many comments about how “it is the only feasible option” due to lower birth rates, longer living rates, and the money could run out.
Hard disagree.
We have the money. We have the resources. Every major modern industrialized nation does. It is a distribution issue. I understand “just raise taxes on the ultrawealthy!!!” is a simplification. But it is the right attitude. What is the point of growing and improving society if not to let people enjoy their lives. We have more wealth resources and the ability to produce and disperse those resources than ever before. Instead governments around the world are discussing ways to force people to work at these jobs even longer. That isn't to say anything about how the poorest among us don't live long enough to see retirement in the first place.
People will still work. People will still want to work well into their twilight years. Forcing millions of people to work these jobs, many of which are not super productive to society in the first place, simply to keep churning the money machine for the upper crust is not moral. Why have a society if the point is to grind the vast majority of the population until they die. Might as well just disband the government completely at that point. A complete failure to understand why humans formed society in the first place.