Let's light up Paris once again

Poor Saucy does not even come around anymore. Ah the arguments we have had over France's cities becoming total dumps.

He will be back when Russia collapses.

How cooked is Germany? If Germany is proposing this France is cooked^2 with their current retirement age ranging from 62-62

This is going to be Canada. Ill never see my OAS or CPP I paid into.

Better bring a couple million more immigrants to keep the Ponzi scheme alive.

That was the great running theory for the last 10-15 years that explains globalist actions. The west isn't reproducing so lets import a bunch of young labor that will fund the tax obligations, makes sense on paper doesn't it? In reality, huge swathes of the people they brought in are a net negative contributor, so you created another liability.

Around where i live, you have migrants that basically receive all forms of subsidies. Housing, food, transportation, healthcare. The thing if this was like a 'until you get on your feet' ordeal that'd be one thing, but it ends up being like 10 years or sitting on these programs. Wtf is the incentive to go do some shit job making 15 bucks an hour when if you do you lose most of your state subsidies?

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Oct 7 2025 09:13am

Raising the retirement age to 73 (it's currently at 67) was a proposal made by a commission of so-called experts, no idea about their ideological background or funding though. It is not the official government position, and never will be. In any case, proposals from neoliberal economists along the lines of "if the populace became serfs again, that would be really great for GDP and state finances" have been popping up every other year.

My guess is that this is an attempt at "anchoring", with the true goal being raising the retirement age to 70, which is where all of Europe and the Western world is headed to anyway. Denmark already passed a law gradually raising their retirement age to 70, to name one example. The demographic outlook in places like Japan and South Korea is even more dire btw. Even Canada and the US aren't that far behind in terms of demographic crisis.

With AI, automation and robotics taking off, sustaining the economic output with a smaller workforce might turn out to be a less severe problem than previously feared. It's the financing and redistribution aspects which might turn out to be the heavier lift.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Oct 7 2025 09:48am

Everyone expects some sort of UBI is only a few years away. So far what I've seen is more of the same, publicize the costs and privatize the profits, at least that's the case in the US. Think more of the same is on the horizon until we get to a breaking point and corpos will throw a few crumbs from the table to keep people going French Revolution route.

Yes, pretty much this. The op-ed Bernie Sanders wrote for Fox touches on some of the same notes.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-sanders-ai-benefit-everyone-not-just-handful-billionaires

Maybe that's a topic worthy of its own thread...