Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe, after lawmakers voted to raise it to 70.

Parliamentarians passed a bill mandating the rise on Thursday, with 81 votes in favor and 21 against.

The new law will apply to people born after December 31, 1970. The current retirement age is 67 on average, but it can go up to 69 for those born on January 1, 1967, or later.

The rise is needed in order to be able to “afford proper welfare for future generations,” employment minister Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen said in a press release Thursday.

  • WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish
    13·
    19 hours ago

    And then come the robots and AI, and there are no jobs anymore. Then they have a problem with too much unemployment.

    • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      19 hours ago

      Not to mention the consumer base that makes this all function collapses.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        18 hours ago

        Whoever owns the most effective killbots at year 0 inherits the earth. Everyone else gets murdered or starves to death.

    • KumaSudosa@feddit.dkEnglish
      4·
      18 hours ago

      This is my main issue with it too. I can retire at 72 or later… in more than 40 years. I’d expect to be replaced long before this, so what’s the point?