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Maxime Sbaihi: “No Frenchman under 48 has had a balanced budget”

2022-05-11T18:48:14.896Z


INTERVIEW – France's collective choices are made to the detriment of its youth and to the benefit of baby boomers, argues the essayist, who publishes Le Grand Vieillissement (Éditions de l'Observatoire).


LE FIGARO - According to you, the “great aging” is one of the most important changes that our society is experiencing.

But would it be hidden?

Maxime SBAIHI

- The demographic reversal is a major upheaval at work.

He is silent, because demography is working too slowly to make television news open.

However, the median age is the highest in Europe.

France lives under an unprecedented demographic regime: never has our population been so old, never has it counted so many seniors and they have never lived as long as they do today.

The 17 million retirees today will be 23 million by 2060. This is unheard of.

The post-war baby-boom has become a gigantic grandpa-boom that creates tensions on the real estate market and public spending, upsets the distribution of wealth between ages.

You insist on the particularity of the French social model.

How is it hyper sensitive to demographics?

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Source: lefigaro

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