Should we raise retirement age to 80?

[Tami]

I'd be okay with 70, though 67 is close enough.

[RLAAMJR.]

Retirement should be lowered to 65 years old.

[Kirby101]

I hate people who start bullshit threads like this and have no intention in participating in the discussion.

This is something asshole white men in cushy white color jobs come up with. Try working a physical job in your 60s let alone 70s.

Not just no, but hell no!

[Phoenixx9]

Hell no. I can't wait until I can retire. The government would like that since that means less benefits for them to pay out. They're already raising the age at which you can collect your SS for my generations and those to come. They want you to self fund your retirement and hope your investments don't tank before you get there. That's what happened to a brother in law of mine. During the last crisis just before Obama's election, you literally couldn't move your money fast enough to prevent the freefall from wiping out thousands of dollars.

Fuck that shit! I don’t want to work until I literally drop.

67 is old enough, thank you very much (and they may raise that age by the time I can collect my pension).

We should put people's brains in robot bodies and make them work for all eternity!

Most Americans don't even live to 80.

I really agree with all of the great statements above! No way work till 80!

[MoneySpider]

After all, doesn't work make you young?

An extra 13 years? No thank you. Would YOU want to work until you're 80?

[PaulBullion]

An extra 13 years? No thank you. Would YOU want to work until you're 80?

He didn't even want the work to keep up with his own thread here.

[Starter Set]

Yeah, totally. Actually people should work till they drop dead. Then they can sleep all they want, lazy bastards.

And really, is child labour such a bad thing? Kids should put to work as soon as they can walk i say!!

[Trey Strain]

Would you hire someone who was that old?

[Billy Batson]

Would you hire someone who was that old?

Depends on the job.

[Trey Strain]

Depends on the job.

Let me put it this way. If you were over 70 years old and got laid off, would you like to go looking for a job?

[PaulBullion]

Let me put it this way. If you were over 70 years old and got laid off, would you like to go looking for a job?

... as porn star?

Sure!

[Billy Batson]

Let me put it this way. If you were over 70 years old and got laid off, would you like to go looking for a job?

My dad did, I think.
Worked to his 70s and changed jobs in his late 60s/early 70s.

[Kid A]

no, if anything the retirement age needs to be vastly lowered.

actually, no, abolish work and wage labour tbh

[dancj]

It's a tricky one. Clearly we have an ageing population so we can't have people retiring at the same age they used to and expect to be supported for the rest of their lives. We just can't afford it.

Some professions are too physical or stressful (police, prison guard, teacher) though that trying to do that too old would drive you to an early grave.

Personally I'm a computer programmer and (like all programmers) I love my job. I think they'll be dragging me out kicking and screaming when I reach retirement age.

[worstblogever]

Not only do people often not live until 80, by that age, dementia is usually setting in.

So not just "no", but "Hell no. What the f*** are you thinking?"