Pension Age Deception

Many countries are in the process of raising the nation's pension age; I will have to work until I'm 67 years old, when my father's generation could easily retire early at an age of 55. Is that progression?

_{Image by geralt - source:Pixabay}

In today's short post I'd like to quickly address the omnipresent lie with which this completely ridiculous and unjustifiable is sold to the masses. Almost everyone I ask says they understand why this is being done. "Our generation has a much higher life-expectancy than previous ones; progression has caused us to live longer than before, so it's only natural that if you live longer, you'll have to save more for those extra years. I don't see any problem here."

Rising life expectancies have also had a part to play. According to the World Bank, life expectancy at birth in the UK has risen from 75 to 82 over the past 30 years.
_{source: Schroders}

This is so maddening! This I find the perfect example of blindly accepting what you're being told, without taking even a second to think about it. A nation's life-expectancy says exactly nothing about your life-expectancy. The fact that on average a nation's population lives longer doesn't mean at all that it's citizens live longer lives.

The main reason average ages have risen is because less children die at young ages. And in most recent decades this has been compounded by the simple fact that less children are even born at all; there's far less small numbers to drag down the nation's average age. It's true that we also managed to prolong life at the end, but in practice this means exactly that; we just die slower, keeping ourself alive with medicine and treatment, these are far from productive years.

_{Off to work, you lazy bums! - source: Wikimedia Commons}

The only proven relationship between economics and age is that rich people live longer! And they also have less offspring; there's the solution to your imaginary overpopulation problem. Make the third world as wealthy as the west to ensure a birthrate below 2.1 kids per family, the rate needed to maintain a stable population size. But the planet isn't overpopulated at all in the first place, that's a lie too.

Writing this down, I'm baffled once again at the self evidence of it, and the gullibility of so many people. It drives me crazy sometimes to hear people actually defend government's policy of austerity with words like "we all have to take responsibility for the debts we have accumulated as a people." AAARRHGHGH!! Be silent please! Debt = money! Without debt no money! I wish it were different, but for decades the country with the highest national debt has also been the richest country! 1+1=2!! And WE did NOT accumulate those debts in the first place!

But no. The Secretary of Finance has but to point out that the debt is getting too big and the sheeple make it their responsibility to help alleviate the nation's burden... Sigh... I'll leave it at that for now. This should be no news for the remarkably well educated and freethinking steemians that are gathered here. But I would ask of you this: if these obvious lies are discussed in your vicinity, please don't stay silent and educate these unfortunately misinformed fellow human beings. And then, to seal the deal, invite them over for their further education and entertainment here on steemit 😉

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