2026-10-06 04:51 UTC
The French retirement age is a bit of a problem.
France partly has a pay as you go system, meaning current working people are paying the pensions of retired people.
France also has an aging population, so there will be fewer people paying for more people. And that’s a problem, and you can really only solve it by increasing income, decreasing spending, or having fewer retired people (and raising the age is the most ethical way to do that).
You can’t do nothing and expect a pay-as-you-go system to keep working with an aging population.
Replies (2)
-
@rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2026-10-06 04:55
It’s really only an issue because governments refuse to tax the rich.
-
@GardenGeek@europe.pub 2026-10-06 05:38
The average employee is less and less compensated for the ever increasing productivity of his work. Fix that and we can see and discuss if a pay-as-you-go system really doesn’t work amymore. For the moment the rich hoard more and more while claiming the productivity isn’t increasing and we have to cut back everything that benefits the majortiy for the sake of even higher profits.