During the recent parades against the planned pensions reform in Angers as well as in France, the demonstrators outlined the necessity of retirement at 60 years old in order to allow the younger generation to come in the labor market. This is a generous idea, apparently.
Because, at the same time, these people argue they are mentally and physically exhausted. That could be true during the last decade because the french workforce had been exposed to a shortening of working hours which increased its productivity, and thus its efforts to produce the same volume of work (if not more) in less time. If France boasts on the best productivity all over the world, it has also the record of consumption of antidepressive drugs.
So, are the workers so generous to share a burden they want to escape? Moreover this theory of sharing the work is absolutely wrong. Work creates jobs. Inactivity doesn't. From another point of view, these people claiming their desire to retire may be do not understand what the base of the present pensions system consists in : the pensions of (for instance) 2020 will have to be paid by the contributions of the same year. Will that be possible with the pensionned (living more longer) outnumbering the contributors? Where is solidarity?
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