Boomers (only people I know receiving pensions) use pensions to fund lavish lifestyles without having build major companies.

“If your last few years before you retire, you work 300, 400 hours of overtime and bump up your pay by $40,000, that all goes into the salary that your pension is based on,” said Ana Champeny, director of city studies at New York’s Citizens Budget Commission."

So yeah, it seems like a bad idea to be able to scam the pension system like that.