The Social Security retirement age: Who’s really living longer?

[JDPriestly]

15. 65 is more realistic than 67 for most people and most professions.

Sorry, but I'm over 65. Modern medicine keeps you alive, but it doesn't keep you fit and healthy enough for most jobs.

Even if you exercise and eat right, you still age. Bosses don't like older employees. The average senior is slower. Pretty universally, it can be said that our recall slows even if it remains intact. In addition, we don't have the same physical reaction time that we hand when we were younger. Employers really don't like having to deal with those factors.

Right now, employers are busily firing people in their 50s. And once a person in their 50s loses a job, it's hard for them to get another one. Many people in their 50s work part-time.

As time passes and technology advances, there will be even less demand for workers, especially older workers, than there is today. We have to figure out a way to accommodate an increased number of retirees.

People will live long, but not efficiently. Raising the retirement age will not work. I had planned to work to 70. I even went back to school and retrained so I could. That was my plan. Employers had a different one.