People around 50 to 60 barely find jobs, and are often replaced with younger folks. So not only are they forced to work longer, but because they cannot work they won’t be able to have a better retirement pension, if not worse. And people who had difficult jobs can barely keep up to 62. Currently, most of them are jobless and waiting for the maximum age for retirement (which is 67, if I recall correctly), living off social minima and in precarious situations.
I’m currently working in a museum that specializes in welcoming people who have difficulty accessing to cultural places due to their social, professional or personal background such as jobless people, disabled people, immigrants, people living in difficult neighbourhoods, people with limited income, etc by providing free entries to them. You’d be shocked how many elderly people come in and justifying their free entry by showing they live through social minima.
Many people (especially men) who work in difficult conditions (physical/manual work) barely live long enough to see retirement, considering those people also don’t have the best quality of life either in order to take care of their bodies as well as they should despite all the health care we can get.
It also handicaps women who often don’t get full careers due to childbirth, parenting, etc and are also discriminated against when applying for jobs.
As for younger people, if you start working young, you still have to work for an absurd amount of time (43 years) full time uninterrupted to be able to retire with a full pension.
With the current system, not only do they want to make you work two more years, but the motion requires you to have a full career, which is incredibly difficult for the majority of the population, in order to receive that full pension.
The only exceptions that manage to get a full career early on are the people from high social class, who get into a good company and manage to keep their position. Which, again, is not accessible to everyone and disadvantage women. Of course, some people from middle class can manage to get higher positions, but it is *unlikely*. Not impossible, but unlikely.
This motion will not only widen the economic gap between lower/middle class and higher class, but also widen the poverty threshold altogether, while profiting companies.
TLDR ; The age itself isn’t “that dramatic” but all of the small policies make it catastrophic for the working class, especially for people who already struggles which constitute the majority of the french population.
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