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⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - Retirees in France now have higher incomes than workers

This isn’t a stable political equilibrium:

“Not only do French pensioners receive larger cheques from the government than their counterparts anywhere else in the west, they start getting them several years earlier.

The result is a situation in which over-65s now have higher average incomes than the working age population — unique both internationally and in France’s own history.”