Here come the downvotes but whatever. This is a problem in the entire 1st world so my position in Canada is just as applicable.

I'm 49. My dad is 82 and just stopped working.

It is a fact that people are living longer and able to work longer. It is also a fact that people, on average, do not plan for retirement that is why we have social assistance. It is also a fact that government social assistance is supposed to be a stop gap not a replacement for individual responsibility. For the government to be fully responsible your taxes would need to increase drastically.

In Canada one of the best things that was done recently was to raise the amount every Canadian pays into the CPP. This did not improve it however, this just made it less likely to run out of money in the future. This is why they also are providing incentives to delay receiving your CPP and why globally there is a push to raise the pension age.

So there are multiple problems

1. We do not fund the system well enough to account for the amount of pensioners increasing that funding is political suicide.
2. People are living longer and we have the largest fucking generation ever needing to be propped up by one of the smallest who I might add are also raising kids at the same time.
3. People are working longer depressing the market for high value and low value jobs (think executives and Walmart greeters)
4. People do not plan for retirement

In none of these scenarios does lowering the pension age make it easier.

On a base level I agree with what you said. It's bullshit my dad has to work until 82. But Jesus Christ reality people. It's not feasible!

As a end fyi. My parents are lower middle class and we're good with money but then in the 90s we had a recession and my dad lost his job to computers and ther went their savings. This is not a unique story. People can be responsible and shit happens. As it stands now they barely make by on only government pensions because they live in the middle of nowhere and they rent for well below market value because the person who owns their house is a genuinely nice person. Survival shouldn't rely on luck.

It's more or less the same story every time: tax the wealthy, stop wasting ever more money on subsidies to large companies, stop attacking social security nets, spend money on public services (education, justice, health, etc), etc

It's also a show of support for the highschool and student protests, and against far-right sentiments