With the resounding return of inflation, which is eroding purchasing power, everyone scrutinizes their own income and tries to read over their neighbor's shoulder to compare themselves.
“We are still in a country where pensions are increasing faster than wages.
And that does not concern anyone, ”
wrote in a tweet Maxime Sbaihi, director in Paris of the consulting firm Brunswick and author of a noted book,
Le Grand Aging
(Observatory editions) published last year.
Would retirees be privileged compared to the working people to whom the Borne government's reform project is asking to postpone the legal retirement age to 64 (with, however, many exceptions)?
The question torments public opinion.
Don't we regularly hear economists peremptorily affirm on continuous television sets “
that in France retirees have a higher level than that of working people
”?
But who are we talking about?
People who are inactive in general, employees with a job, people of working age, including the unemployed and students, or adults in the prime of life?
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