• Voting for everything and anthing isn’t always a good idea. The value of each vote is linked to how knowledgable the person voting is in regards to the subject they are voting on.

    The whole retirement age situation could probably have been handled better, but in the end, if the pension fund runs out of money, it runs out of money. It’s a 0 sum game. You either:

    • raise the retirement age
    • pay out smaller retirements
    • collect more taxes

    Either way, people will be unhapy lol

    • I feel like everything should be voted in the parliament, especially when there is a strong opposition in the country. FYI, the retirement reform was not voted in the parliament !

      Retirement system is quite complex in France and is mostly managed by unions except when the gouvernement make a big reform. For the “retraites complémentaires” (the bonus part), there were an agreement between workers’ unions and employers’ federation.