[namdnay]

A real balancing would entail cutting pensions for existing pensioners. Which is electoral suicide. So what you always end up doing is shafting future pensioners, either by pushing back the retirement age, or by doing nothing and waiting for it to explode

[tossandthrow]

I reckon the presumption is that current pensioners don't live as long as future pensioners.

Hence only doing this for future pensioners will give equal time as reitred.

(at least, this is the core reasoning)

[lazyasciiart]

Also, that people who have twenty years to plan for their retirement to happen under these conditions will not be as screwed as someone told that their plans for next week are off.

[FirmwareBurner]

But those people retiring from 2040 are still getting screwed by a policy. How is more time to prepare gonna help? Are you gonna magic some more money out of thin air by then?

[lazyasciiart]

You don’t need more money to continue working.

[StackRanker3000]

Why is that way of balancing this more real than the others?