> You are right that I'm not French, I'm Swiss and we have 5 years longer until pension. I would love to have solutions which can keep it as low as in France, b

> You are right that I'm not French, I'm Swiss and we have 5 years longer until pension. I would love to have solutions which can keep it as low as in France, but I must wonder, how come no other country in the world (except Greece, which defaulted) was able to apply them already? You can check the government report on which everything in this pension reform is based on https://www.lexpress.fr/economie/retraites-ce-qu-il-faut-retenir-du-dernier-rapport-du-cor_2180059.html https://www.lexpress.fr/economie/retraites-ce-qu-il-faut-ret... Article fails to mention covid killing off a bunch of old people but the timing of that helped too. We don't do capitalized pensions aka "putting money aside" and we don't want to. We pay for the currently retired with the dues of those currently working in real time Some of the same people would show up in the streets for reduced pensions or increased dues if it came down to a deficit (which isn't the case right now), but nothing like May