Gaston wrote:Me too, I know "grandpa boomers" who are in (great) difficulty, but I know at least as many who benefit from a pension higher than my current salary and who live in a house bigger than mine. they paid off in less than 20 years.
Yes and how much? the majority? certainly not!
No era escapes the "class struggle".
So there will always be the wealthy, and the privileged few ...
The "thirty glorious years" allowed the advent of what is called the "middle" class (themselves subdivided: poor average, median average, high average).
The latter made it possible to operate consumption while guaranteeing a relative distribution of wealth *, unfortunately such a process was not included in the algorithm of economic development, it was only a
phase, the phenomenon can also be observed in many countries (eg China).
The error, however, is believe that this phase is normal.
And it is this belief which pushes the populations not to take into account the "system".
It's a bit like the story of the frog immersed in a heated pan, at first it gets cold, then comes a period of comfort, before the irreparable suffering!
* It is the high middle class which pushed a certain number of observers to conclude that the "baby boomers" were the lucky ones, this analysis does not resist an investigation in all the layers of the French company.
"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.
