People could never save for retirement. Never. Not a single generation did it yet. Just the scale of the problem is now bigger because as the population stopped growing fast enough, we suddenly have a lot of people going to retire.

My parents and their parents again did it. I don't know what you're talking about.

I thought the whole point was all the generations before generation X were able to save and/or have a pension or other retirement facility paying enough m. Baby Boomers and before.