Give me a break.
If we're lucky, we find out about these things when a government changes hands and an audit is conducted - typically years after the fact. Also, one can start one's career under a sound system that is eroded through mismanagement.
A lot of the people who have these pensions took the jobs before google even existed, so telling them they should have googled this is ridiculous.
When the folks making crazy promises are dead and/or gone by the time their promises are broken when the funds come up short, the workers who took the good deal are left holding the bag.
We must retroactively assign blame to the worker who was lured into accepting obvious false promises. It is perversely the most compassionate thing we can do: blame and shame past workers for making stupid deals. We do this so that future generations will learn the hard lesson that governments cannot be trusted with their investments. There is no power in investment.
Blaming past politicians for their malfeasance is exactly how we enable today's politicians to keep kicking the can down the road.
That is no longer the case when compared with comparable private sector jobs since at least the early 2000s in many parts of the country.
The problem is that this was not properly budgeted for when funding the pensions.