Raising the retirement age just seems like one more way in which the Silents and Boomers have pulled up the ladders behind themselves, reneging upon their social contracts after already benefiting from them.<p>If anything, with the advancement of technology, we should be lowering the retirement age.  The Earth just doesn&#x27;t <i>need</i> sexagenarians to be working, but it doesn&#x27;t <i>need</i> them to exit the workforce, either.<p>When you raise the state pension age, you aren&#x27;t affecting those with enough personal savings to retire earlier.  You are only affecting those who could not stop working at that age without additional financial support of the state.  So poor people with lower-paying jobs get to face down the possibility that they may eventually be fired after their first day of not being alive enough to come in to work.  Great for morale, I&#x27;m sure.~<p>People with enough money will still be retiring at 50 or 60, or whenever they think they have enough to count down their death clock to zero and still have a little left over.<p>It seems a lot like micromanager Lumbergh from <i>Office Space</i> saying, &quot;Yeah, we&#x27;re running a little behind on the ol&#x27; pension plan here, so I&#x27;m gonna need you to come in when you&#x27;re 65... and 66 too.  So if you could go ahead and do that, it would be great.  Mmmkay?&quot;  And then he retires at 55, while you&#x27;re stuck filling out TPS report cover sheets.<p>If I make it to 65, and still can&#x27;t afford to retire, I&#x27;m going to burn the seniors village down.  You bastards shouldn&#x27;t have taken my stapler.~