Young people just going to change pension age back later

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http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/soci ... 3120681767

Young people just going to change pension age back later

YOUNG people have announced plans to lower the pension age by several decades once they’re in charge.

When asked how they felt about working for another 45 years before getting a state pension, all under-25s favoured amending the law as soon those who made it get old and feeble.

Nail artist Emma Bradford, aged 19, said: “I have to retire at 70 to pay for my granny to retire at 62? Yeah, sounds perfectly fair to me.

“Or here’s another plan: how about we wait until all the government are dead, then just switch it back?”

22-year-old trainee lawyer Tom Logan said: “This government telling us what’s going to be happening in 2063 is like a mayfly making big plans for next month.

“So if they’re in power until 2020 at the latest, and me and my mates get into government in 2040, that still gives us what, 20 years to change that back?

“Pretty sure we’ll manage it. It’ll be our second priority after legalising euthanasia.”

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22-year-old trainee lawyer Tom Logan said: “This government telling us what’s going to be happening in 2063 is like a mayfly making big plans for next month.

Wow, pretty clever for a lawyer.

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<Of course, young people will do that when they are in power, by which time they will be old and will have changed their mind>

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The 'logic' of pushing retirement onto an older age is that of the person who cannot appreciate progress.

Every year the economy grows. Every year, new technologies make more and more unskilled jobs obsolete, and at the same time boost productivity.

Look forward 20 years. We will need to bring retirement down just to provide jobs for younger people, and the wealth generation due to economic and technological growth, will be such that we can afford it.

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The 'logic' of pushing retirement onto an older age is that of the person who cannot appreciate progress.

Every year the economy grows. Every year, new technologies make more and more unskilled jobs obsolete, and at the same time boost productivity.

Look forward 20 years. We will need to bring retirement down just to provide jobs for younger people, and the wealth generation due to economic and technological growth, will be such that we can afford it.

Then the whole show is running on cheaper and cheaper fuel especially for transport costs and a monoculture built on cheap oil. Feet of clay, that'll give way sooner than plans for the replacement will allow. I can see only one thing - a collapse of industrial capacity across the globe, strife and loss of technical knowledge for a rebuild: a new dark age and climate change chaos meaning no likely recovery....eventual human extinction.