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.
@basedbagel
1 : because France, I don't think the young even know what they are rioting about.
2 : it does make a bit of a difference, French people do not save money for retirement, they are wholly dependent on governement in their old age.
3 : nobody is thinking straight. Everyone want more welfare and less taxes.
@Lorgar Ah thank you for explaining that I had no idea.
@basedbagel Some people will capitalize a little bit (myself included of course) but in order to do that I had to put a third of my income living with the bare minimum for 10 years (between 20 and 30 years old) in order to achieve it. Thanks to that I have been able to untie myself from what can only be described as a giant spiderweb.
@basedbagel Most people are not willing to do that. They wake up in their thirties realizing they will be slaves for the rest of their lives and, worst of all, if you managed to free yourself from the system, they will resent you and call you an egoist.
@basedbagel
Today I am free and profiting from the inflation while the blue-pill normies slowly sink into an ocean of shit. I will shed no tears for them. They are nothing but parasites and now that the host is dying, they eat each other. Good, blood for the blood god! Skulls for the skull throne!
@basedbagel You must be American. In France (and I suppose Europe in general) taxes DESTROY you. The money of people is in 2 things: their house and their pensions. The pensions are based on repartition. The workers in activity pay for the retirees. That’s why the taxes are so high and of course it makes everyone wholly dependent on the state.