Today's Episode:
The concept of living out your golden years somewhere warm, wallowing away the hours in the garden or on a beach has gone from the idea of luxury (100-200 years ago) to the expectation for all. In a world with declining fertility rates (i.e. people aren't having babies) and some larger generations approaching their twilight years, some countries are seeing pension spending rising to over 10% of GDP. Put simply, generational demographics (gens getting smaller in many developed countries) and people living longer mean that, when the old outnumber the young, it's going to be very hard to support our pensioners. We're seeing attempts to reform ahead of this pension timebomb, but people do not want to give up money they've come to expect and to continue to work. Nowhere are we seeing this clash happen than in France, where the clash is really quite literal.
This also forms a nice follow-on to our episodes on striking - is this the real life example of trade unions taking it to far? All this and more in today's hot-take episode. Excuse the cursory research into the details of the pension reform in France - further reading has revealed that a large part of the anger towards this policy is that it will hurt poorer people harder than bureaucrats and public sector workers.

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