Get ready for riots. Macron trying to increase pension age in France

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It doesn't make sense when we're going to need to begin creating UBI's as a kind of "any age pension" sooner than later.

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If you think wages should be raised to account for inflation, you must also think that the retirement age must be raised to account for longer lifespans.

Nope. Because automation is happening, longer lives doesn't mean healthy longer lives, and if we can afford to make it easier for people to save up for an earlier break from work then we should.

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Slighty off topic, but I wonder whether Macron would actually lose if the 2022 election was re-run now?

One thing to note is that Macron made this unpopular policy a campaign promise . I actually respect Macron a lot for doing that. The warnings were clearly there, anyone who cared so much about pensions could have voted for icky Le Pen.

I was about to make the same comment.  It seems to me if this pension reform was a deal breaker then the French electorate could have just voted for Le Pen who was clearly against this move.  They did not so it seems to me Macron has a mandate to move forward.

Just because they viewed Le Pen is worse than pension reform, doesn't mean they voted for pension reform, nevermind Macron having a "mandate" for pension reform.