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Laurence de Charette: "Retirement, in search of lost time"

2023-01-19T19:35:00.898Z


THE NOTEBOOK - In a world where time seems to have disappeared, retirement appears to some as the unsurpassable grail. Proof that our relationship to time is not based on quality but on quantity.


"Mr. René will have plenty of time to do what he couldn't before / Tinker, tidy up the garage / Sleepy mornings until nine o'clock, baby-sitting for small children / The pavilion, gardening...",

sings Bénabar in one of his delicate chronicles of ordinary life.

In a few words, he thus portrays the clichés attached to retirement,

"this operation of high magic which transforms a schoolmaster into an annuitant",

wrote Marcel Pagnol, willingly portrayed in the popular imagination for decades as the terrestrial variation of the heaven.

deep springs

Emmanuel Macron rightly insists that it will be necessary to

“work more”

to ensure the sustainability of the system, this great alchemical machine capable, we are told, of making everyone in need happy.

The polls tell him that the French would not want to waste a crumb of the blessed time that has been promised to them.

Read alsoJean-Pierre Le Goff: “The consumer and leisure society has upset the relationship to work”

Mechanically, however, the increase in life expectancy proportionally reduces the time spent at work over the duration of…

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Source: lefigaro

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