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You are going to lead the revolution aren’t you? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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I’m envious of the way the French protest their government. They’re literally setting things on fire because their schools aren’t adequate. Because the government tried to raise the retirement age. Because their politicians are shitbags.

I think the biggest obstacle to organizing in the US is the sheer distance. It takes 40 solid hours of driving to get from one side to the other. That’s not counting any breaks. France takes about 14 hours. Doable in a day or so if you push it.

Anyway, I’d sign up for a Revolution if there was a serious contender.

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[–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 weeks ago

    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.

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