Population aging will bankrupt public pension systems unless we raise retirement ages now. In Japan, where over 29% of people are 65 or older, the government is already encouraging work past 70, but most countries still cling to retirement ages set decades ago. My father retired at 62 with a full pension that will pay out for 25 years, and that math simply doesn't work when fewer young workers pay in each year. Raising retirement ages feels unfair to those who've done physical labor, yet the alternative is cutting benefits for everyone or loading more debt on the next generation. Can we keep pretending the current pension system will survive contact with an increasingly old population?