[adrianb]

Could be. But one thing that was pointed out to me is that once our generation gets closer to retirement age, the governments will be more willing to address our concerns. Probably at the price of making the next generation's retirement plans even more dubious.

The change in attitude is due to the fact that older people are more likely to vote and that politicians and their friends also tend to be in the past-middle age-but-not-retired-yet age bracket.

[ajsnigrutin]

Governments already don't care about current retirees, why would they care about us? Old voters currently vote by the left/right side already and not by "who gives me more" (atleast in my small EU country, and many others).

[KptMarchewa]

Extremely different in my country, Poland.

[ornornor]

Humans have this amazing tendency to wait until the last minute to implement much more constraining solutions at the last minute than what would have been necessary if we did it in time. To wit: climate change. We’ve known about it for 40–50 years but only now are we seriously considering what we can start doing so that in ten years we actually start doing it, right before all hell breaks loose.

[hackflip]

Sounds like a Ponzi scheme