This France situation confuses me.
1. Why are young people rioting over pension reform that doesn't even affect them yet.
2. How does raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 even make that big of a difference?
3. Did any of these people stop and think that maybe the retirement age was raised because they couldn't AFFORD it?
This seems like a low IQ riot to me.
1. As for most of the Western world, welfare is a sacred cow: as long as you tap on taking pensions away or lower them, you'll rally both political sides against you.
2. We used to have retirement at 60 but was pushed to 62 in the early 2010s. It wasn't the first time.
3. Most people don't but for those who do understand the necessity of this reform, they also see the amount of money Macron sends to Ukraine, and most likely are behind the Anti-NATO protests.
