Buttonwood:The rich are different

摘要

Live longer, work longer. As the developed world struggles with the cost of its greying population, a standard response has been to increase the state retirement age. In a decade or two, retiring at 67 rather than 65 will be the norm. But is such a change fair? Across the developed world, better-off people in the higher social classes tend to live longer than the poor. This gap has tended to widen, rather than shrink, in recent years. The result is that the poor get much less time to enjoy their benefits than the better-off.