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.

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    1 month ago

    Look at Nancy Pelosi, tramp, Biden, turtle Mitch, even Bernie…they are all above 70, tons of dudes above 80 and even 90 in congress and the senate. I don’t want that for anyone.

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        The point is that political systems are full of old people and you’re saying they should be forced to stay there even longer to “teach them a lesson”, which is just laughable. So I gave you the most flagrant example of a gerontocracy to display how that is a stupid idea.

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          11 month ago

          My point is that politicians wouldn’t be increasing the age if it also meant that they would be working longer. So that should be the rule and they’ll lower it to something normal very fast.

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            No, they won’t, as you can see, they like being politicians and keeping their power well into their 90s, it’s not a factory job. The only defense of that is that they represent (badly) older populations of retirees from shit jobs.

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              11 month ago

              There’s a lot of politicians that retire way sooner. It was a thing that was discussed when they raised the retirement age in my European country.