Retired old people who aren't just ... busy being sick and dying give back to their communities in HUGE ways. We had someone's grandpa come to our robotics competition to cheer the team on. The old people in my building do all the serious political organizing and man the polls. I'm too busy working being in my 40s and all that.
Raising retirement ages takes away more than just "retirement" ... it makes everything harder.
@futurebird this is also why we have a neo-liberal system of student loans and work study, so that students don't have time to organize. Any longer... of course the generation that did this to the current generations got a lot more grants, didn't have to pay back their student loans (Biden, Reid, McCain Clinton made student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy,1998), and did both activism and self indulgent hippie shit with their their free boomer time, time that they deny their kids/grandkids.
@futurebird Retired people also love learning, and are great students. If we had more retired people with more financial security, our colleges would have so many full writing courses, language courses, science and math courses. And they are so often mentors to younger students.