OttoVb......It doesn't really matter what our opinions of senior or merely post 55 year old pilots is working past retirement age. Remember some of them may have joined the company at age 40 or 50. Do you push them out of the door too? This is exactly why the age legislation has been brought in.
It prevents management with opinions similar to yours and with big bonuses to be earnt, from forcibly retiring people before state mandatory retirement age.
Unfortunately, we are all in a period of transition, coinciding with what looks to be a long recession. It is very difficult to see light at the end of some tunnels, but my opinion is we are stuck with the legislation we have, and we will all just have to learn to adapt. Standard human evolution?