france is living through its own programmed obsolescence and it is 100% due to boomer generation locking in the vote to favor themselves instead of france future. can you believe that during covid governement pushed to raise retirements pensions by the inflation but forced to lock wages not to do that. they did that ONLY because boomers have the majority vote in this country. they also did the covid lockin for boomers, sacrifying all the youth generation to unemployement and debt.

France spends roughly 14% of its GDP on pensions for people that paid less than they now earning - literaly stealing money to young generations- , making pensions one of the country's largest public expenditures. The pension burden also appears inside the headline budgets of individual ministries: in 2026, about €25bn of the €90bn Education budget (~28%), €9.5bn of the €66.5bn Defence budget (~14%), €8.2bn of the €25.8bn Security/Police-Gendarmerie budget (~32%), and €2.4bn of the €13bn Justice budget (~18%) correspond to pension contributions.

So when France says it spends €90bn on schools, for example, only about €65bn is spending excluding the State pension contribution.

how is it related to obsolescence ? well if you are paid shit, have the highest tax in the world to make wealthy old people, why work hard? right now if you want to be working for the gov as an IT sec engineer you will earn less than an average civil servant working 35hours a week that just requires 0-2 year of post grade studies and you will be on a temp contract. there is literaly no decent engineer that will accept such a job. now scale that to many fields in france and see why this once great country is doomed

We should only allow vote for people that contribute to society or at least give them a stronger x2 x3 vote factor.

Same for retirement funds in france younger generations pay for the older ones but it appears that boomers did not make enough children for growth/equilibrium and are now earning more pensions than their children will. the logical thing to do is to decrease pensions for every boomer that has less than 2 children.

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kevin_thibedeau an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Liberté, égalité pas, fraternité

	▲	retinaros an hour ago \| parent [-]
		yeah. their fraternité ends when they need to fairly contribute.

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tgv an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Census suffrage has been abolished about a century ago. There's a minor hack and you want to reinstate it.

> ... boomers ... boomers ...

Ah, just bigotry. I see.

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retinaros an hour ago | parent [-]

what bigotry? they are stealing the money and future of every french child being born and you defend them insulting people showing you the facts of bigots.

	▲	tgv a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		You're indignant, and blame a group of people based on a characteristic they cannot and did not choose for your anger. Judging from the rest of your reply, you already know that. You should look at the political system. Politicians, not only in France, have long ago found out that image is much more important than action, and that you can get a nice extra income when you serve rich people's interest. They bow to every rioting group, just to stay in power. Blame hypocritical politicians, or credulous voters, but not the Jews, the Blacks, the Muslims, or the Millenials.

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onetokeoverthe an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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