In this context, is the national "retirement age" just the age at which national social-security-type programs start paying out? And the connection to actually retiring (not working) is that (1) people are less likely to want to work if they have access to retirement income and (2) payouts are decreased if you're earning a lot of money?
> For example, you can take three months extra paid leave while you are 35 by agreeing to increase your retirement age by one year.<p>The idiom "Penny Wise And Pound Foolish" is _perfect_ for this type of thinking.<p>Under this style of system, you are betting that if you live to 'retirement' age, you'll continue to be able to work for the number of years you took off earlier in life. What happens when you can't?<p>This sounds like another way to screw over the working class and still make them poor in the end. This idea isn't radical, it's dangerous.