A man changes his gender so he could retire earlier in Argentina

[u/Rave4life79]

[u/MegamanGaming]

This isn’t facepalm. This is exploiting a stupid system

[u/LegendOfKhaos → u/MegamanGaming]

The facepalm is probably a lack of basic equality

[u/CaptainFleshBeard → u/LegendOfKhaos]

Now to be equal, Argentinia raises women retirement age by 5 years

[u/Amazoncharli → u/CaptainFleshBeard]

That would be the way, no way would they lower the men’s retirement age to what the womens age is.

[u/AssaultedCracker → u/Amazoncharli]

Realistically that’s what the trend needs to be. Boomers aging out are gonna wreck the economy.

[u/Stravven → u/AssaultedCracker]

That is indeed true. Example: Here, when state sponsored retirement (AOW) was introduced people got it aged 65, and on average died aged 74. Nowadays they get it aged 67, and die aged 85 on average. That's twice as many years to cover. Add to that that the ratio of retirees to working people has decreased from 5 to 1 to 2.5 to 1 too.

[u/Cory123125 → u/Amazoncharli]

I think they were alluding to lowering it for each, because ultimately, raising the age disproportionately negatively affects men.

[u/Amazoncharli → u/Cory123125]

Who’s they? I’m referring to the government, only cause I can’t see them lowering to the women’s age as that would cost the government more money.

[u/Cory123125 → u/Amazoncharli]

The person you were responding to.

Im saying that I think you misunderstood their joke.

[u/NoSalad_ → u/Amazoncharli]

split the difference?

[u/Amazoncharli → u/NoSalad_]

That would be the logical way. Costs the government no more or less and everyone has the same age.