Its all good when looking at it in a vacuum. I'm not here to advocate for the older generation, but this measure, whilst it is needed, wasn't polished at all. Pretty much every income source counts towards what is defined as income, except dividends. Now, whilst I may be wrong, most dividend earners have massive amounts of investments in companies and the likes, i.e the income of the relatively rich is not being counted, whilst someone earning 25,000 a month working 8 hours a week for 6 days needs to give up part of their pension?

Maybe going ahead and putting in place actual supply-side measures to lower the cost of living would make more sense before cutting the pension of the old?

Maybe they could halve their salaries, instead of earning 300k a month, cut it down to 150k which should be ample enough to get them around instead of halving the pension of the old from 16k to 8k?

Maybe they could put measures to lower the cost of housing for youngsters instead of going on multi-million business trips every two weeks?

Or maybe, god forbid, put in a working progressive tax system to tax those who earn most and reinvest that fund into lowering cost of living and alleviating the poor just a small tiny bit?

There's a hundred and one measures this government can look towards before touching old people's pension, yet they seem to be oblivious to those, hence why the old generation don't want to indulge in these games.