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As concisely as possible, could you please connect French retirement age with global warming? Please do not change the subject or go off on a tangent. Simply draw the straightest line.

Now, do it without passing through a billionaire’s pockets.



Not GP but I'll try: retirement age is a similar issue, with a "tragedy of the commons" feel to it. Retirement age falling behind increases in life expectancy is unsustainable, and will likely end up with the system crashing, or effectively crashing (like people receiving notional but tiny and insufficient pensions).

Rather than take some pain upfront and have a better final outcome, the French apparently (I'm not 100% following the news there) choose to protest, deny the issue and risk taking a big one on the chin later on.

In that respect climate change is similar, as people prefer to stick to their current lifestyles at the cost of a tougher future.


As a Swiss watching the French protests: it seems not so much about retirement age but inequality and injustice. People seem to think, after I have worked off my ass for decades I have a right to retire, the one percent be damned!


Okay thanks, I see the analogy. I was under the impression GP thought they were actually directly related somehow.




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