Why Should We Have To Work Longer To Receive Our Pensions

@Mordechai The thing with this idea that "People are living a very long time" is that there is a difference between the North and the South. More Londoners might be living a very long time - but, if you come north to some of these former mining towns, we still have people who aren't living to 60 or 65, never mind 70.

@HootyTheNightOwl Definitely agree there, there's a lot more poverty and alcoholism. I'm originally from the north and I've lived in cities, small towns and villages so I've seen and felt it all.

I mean globally on average from the boomer gen onwards life expectancy in contrast to birthrate has widened significantly. In Japan for instance which mirrors our age demographic quite closely they're also increasing the pension age and I think we're going to see this more often due to the shrinking young population that can support pension to gdp inflation in taxes.

@Mordechai The good news is that countries that are experiencing shortages will make it easier to immigrate and emigrate. That's going to happen, whether we like it or not. We are going to be seeing more foreigners in England and fewer English people as the English take off for jobs that are better than cleaning and Amazon warehouse jobs. They're not bad jobs, but there's zero opportunities for promotion when you consider the sheer number of people coming through and people who might need to climb the ladder to a less physically demanding job.

And one area that's going to suffer most is elder care... especially when you have fewer children coming up to care for the aging boomers.