This trend is one that we're all going to have to get used to... whether we want to or not it's a new dawn. The whole idea of 'retirement' is a 20th century failed experiment. Before then nobody retired. One had to work or starve and the socialist thinking that promised comfortable retirement after 40 years of contributing to a pension fund just didn't work... and private pension funds have served no better. Pilots are no different to anyone else and will need to work to eat... and pay alimony.
Tough on the young ? Yes... but in the words of Cliff Richard.. "We may not be the Young Ones Very Long"... You're all on the same train, just a few carriages back... beware of what you wish for because before you know it, you too will be desperate to cling on to that left hand seat out of necessity if not out of preference.