Don't working geezers bring much of the 'age discrimination in employment" that exists today upon themselves? Don't many older workers feel entitled to high wages at the end of their careers even if their actual daily contributions are no longer in line with those wages?
I'd like to see employers, including the biggest employer, the gov't, adopt programs where senior employees who are no longer truly competitive in the job market given the salaries they're commanding a graceful way to "wind down" at the end. And I'd like to see the senioir employees accept the reductions thankfully and to also prepare themselves by keeping up the skill sets that they had mid-career.
An older plant manager, unable to work the long hours and put up with the stress, takes a 50% salary cut and goes back to being a supervisor on one of the production lines.
An older programmer who can't keep up with the pace of the younger folks any longer but who is earning more takes a 50% salary haircut but is given more time to do less sophisticated projects.
Etc. Etc.
Yeah, I know there are issues with this. Among other things, filling jobs that were tradtionally "entry level" with geezers is one problem. Still, I'd like to see both senior employees and employers come to grips with declining productivity at career end by reducing the compensation of senior employees but allowing them to stay on in positions they can still handle.