What should retirement age be?

[mileslunn]

After recent French riots over raising retirement age, what do people think it should be.  Should it be a fixed age or should like Social Security have a range where can retire early for reduced payout and work longer for increased?

I personally think it should be around 70 unless working in manual labor jobs where younger.  At same time I would allow retirement as young as 65 for reduced payout and as high as 75 with higher payout.  I believe mandatory retirement should be illegal unless its a job where creates risk such as pilot (they have mandatory).  Raising it should give at least 10 years warning so won't impact those near retirement and rise 2 months per year.  For US, it would hit 70 in 2045 while for Canada where I live it wouldn't hit that until 2063.

[Antonio the Sixth]

It should depend on the type of work, but generally we should have to guarantee everyone 15-20 years of life expectancy after retirement.

[Del Tachi]

Probably something like 72. 

[Santander]

Businesses should be allowed to set their own mandatory retirement ages. For government jobs, it should be 60 in the military and 65 in civil service.

[dead0man]

When you've made enough money to retire.  The govt shouldn't have anything to do with it.

[President Johnson]

I'd more inclined to have a flexible retirement age after an x number of working years. Also depending on profession. Someone who started his first job at 18 on a construction site needs to retire in his early or mid 60s. Someone entering an office/management job after university, starting in your late 20s, should be able to work until lat 60s or into the 70s.

[John Dule]

Whenever the individual wants.