“Do not waste your life earning it”. PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP
CHRONICLE – The place of professional life is giving way to leisure.
Nothing new under the French sun: “pensions: we do not want to spend our life earning it”. The slogan displayed in large white letters on the walls, in Bordeaux in particular, updates the injunction of the libertarian movements: “Do not waste your life earning it”. The biblical curse “you will earn your bread by the sweat of your brow” seems very badly lived with us!
Between the two priorities of the moment – the preservation of purchasing power and the maintenance of “free time” threatened by the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64 years – would the French favor leisure? “A significant proportion of workers, 44%, would be ready to anticipate their retirement, even if it means seeing their pension reduced”, notes not without astonishment the Institut Montaigne, which conducted a survey of a representative sample of 5001 working people. Moreover, “the study confirms a massive rejection (of the project) which crosses all socio-professional categories, all…
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