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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64705366
Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe after its parliament adopted a law raising it to 70 by 2040.
The retirement age at 70 will apply to all people born after 31 December 1970.
Pensions in theory are nice, because it guarantees you a certain quality of life after you retired. Also since most of the time there is a minimum pension its good for people that had to stay home raising kids and not having an income to pay for their pension in that time. Otherwise the people not owning property at that age would become homeless since the rent keeps going up and is just not affordable anymore.
Nobody the age of 65 can or should be required to perform hard physical work.
My mom is 62 this year and will retire at 64, she works in an office doing administrative things and she herself tells me she just cant keep up with new tool, technology etc. even ui changes are hard for her. Now imagine this at the age of 70, how productive can anyone really be?
Yeah, that’s the scam. They say you will get some income after retiring, what they fail to tell you is that they will never allow you to retire. The retirement age will keep getting pushed back. The truth is that you will have to work till the day you die.
You are not… our senior chef, who refuses to retire at age 79, is a real pain in the ass for everyone. He doesn’t know how to handle modern ERP Systems, he is nearly deaf, i have to buy really big monitors so he can see something at least… It doesn’t make any sense to let people work that long.