Topic: We should end mandatory retirement

Argument: Mandatory retirement is unconstitutional ageism because it discriminates on inalienable characteristics of the worker.

Argument: mandatory retirement is unfair to those who will still need the income to survive after a certain age.

Argument: mandatory retirement keeps professions and companies lively and dynamic

Argument: mandatory retirement leaves openings in the job force for those that are stronger and more capable of doing the jobs.

Argument: Mandatory retirement lets companies more easily make space for new workers that have more of an incentive to work hard at a new job.

Argument: mandatory retirement makes room for younger workers

Argument: mandatory retirement makes room in the workforce for younger more able bodied individuals to work.

Argument: mandatory retirement makes sure that fresh ideas and fresh bodies keep flowing through business which is a good thing.

Argument: Mandatory retirement makes the older generation the economic burden of the ones below them (since they can no longer support themselves) which is worse than just allowing them to keep working.

Argument: Mandatory retirement often forces out the most skilled and experienced members of the labor force, meaning from an economic perspective it leads to declined productivity and quality of goods and services.

Argument: mandatory retirement opens up jobs for those unemployeed or are starting out in the workplace.

Argument: mandatory retirement put high-skilled workers out of jobs. putting a pressure in the working field and jeopardizing economic progress

Argument: Mandatory retirement puts pressure on the government to maintain social services for older people such as Social Security and pension programs that benefit society as a whole.

Argument: mandatory retirement removes experienced personnel form the rosters who still have many working years ahead of them due to longer life spans.

Argument: mandatory retirement results in the loss of institutional knowledge, which can have devastating consequences.

Argument: mandatory retirement should be abolished as lifespans increase and older people are more able and active than ever, making the old retirement ages useless.

Argument: mandatory retirement should be ended as it is discriminatory.

Argument: mandatory retirement should be ended as it is unfair on older people.

Argument: Mandatory retirement should be in place for careers that require good physical health, younger ages and good flexibility such as law enforcement or any first responder career.

Argument: mandatory retirement should be phased out as humans live longer, the old age markers for retirement become more and more out of step with how active older people are.

Argument: mandatory retirement should continue because it keeps the workforce fresh

Argument: mandatory retirement should end because it cuts everyone off at a certain age. many people are able to work and need to work well past that age.

Argument: mandatory retirement should stop because older people should not be pushed out.

Argument: Mandatory retirement transitions older people into the next stage of their lives.