From the height of his omnipotence, President Macron tells us; "we will have towork more, we have to produce more", and working more means first agreeing toraise the retirement age to 64 years old. According to this gentleman, it isimpossible to do otherwise, demographics oblige, economy obliges... ---- Sothere, congratulations
to the artist: this gentleman needs a good dose ofcontempt and a hell of a nerve to dare to tell us that he there is no money forpensions: every day, the media announces the extraordinary profits of Frenchcompanies, one day it's Total, the next day it's Stellantis, Engie, LVMH, Airbus,etc. ., etc.... ---- Even companies that were struggling like Air France, Renaultor the Post Office are announcing comfortable profits. Never have Frenchcompanies done so well, never have they been so profitable. In total, hundreds ofbillions that will fall into the pockets of shareholders who, at least many ofthem, will invest this money in tax havens or buy luxury goods (yachts, villas,etc.).If these companies make a profit, it is first and foremost thanks to thecommitment of their employees. Workers in France have never produced so muchwealth, but they do not benefit from it. While inflation is cutting into thepurchasing power of families, the number of people below the poverty line isincreasing, this is the moment that Mr. Macron chooses to announce that we willhave to work more, and longer .The laws of economics, he tells us, rule, but he is careful not to explain whywhat had been possible for decades has become impossible when the economicsituation of large French companies was much less flourishing than it seemed. istoday, when national wealth production was a small fraction of what it is in 2023.In fact, the reason is simple: pensions are essentially financed by contributionsdeducted from earned income and proportional to this income: the higher the wagebill in the country, the more the pension contribution bill increases; however,during the last decades, the proportion of the national wealth produced going towage-earners has decreased significantly and, of course, the share of capitalincome has increased in inverse proportion.All these tens of billions of profits made by the stars of the stock market areso many salaries that are not paid to employees, hence billions in less pensioncontributions. We have been witnessing for decades a slow but continuous relativeimpoverishment of wage earners in this country: the economy produces more andmore wealth, but wage earners receive only a very small part of this surpluswealth, the capitalists reserve the bulk.It is therefore in fact a real theft that they are indulging in at the expense ofthe workers, something that Mr. Macron will of course never admit. If thedistribution of labor income/capital income had remained the same, there would beno problem of funding pensions. To justify the gifts he made to the very rich,Mr. Macron explained to us at length that we had to believe in his trickle-downtheory: the wealth of the privileged class would, according to him, naturallytrickle down to the poor classes.In fact, we find that this is not the case and if the fortune of the very richincreases, the poor and the middle classes become even poorer, but since thegreed of the very rich class is limitless, they seek to get ever richer and thisenrichment is done to the detriment of all the others. Their willingness to makeworkers pay for pension fund deficits, the logical consequences of their greed,is proof of this.The struggle wage-earners have engaged in to make them back down on this point isa moment in the struggle which opposes the class of workers to the class ofcapitalists, it is a stage in this age-old struggle which opposes labor tocapital and which does not will end only after the victory of the Social Revolution.http://cntaittoulouse.lautre.net/spip.php?article1305_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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