Jean-Luc Melenchon, the hard-left French presidential hopeful, will pledge to raise the minimum wage and restore the country’s retirement age to 60 when he launches his 2027 election programme on Saturday.
Jean-Luc Melenchon, the hard-left French presidential hopeful, will pledge to raise the minimum wage and restore the country’s retirement age to 60 when he launches his 2027 election programme on Saturday.
You are right that they use less resources and cause less damage if they don’t work, at least as long as our economical system does not internalize external costs and does not discourage using non-regenerating resources. From that point of view it’s probably better they do nothing worse than being retired. In a better system they would do something beneficial.
I just wanted to oppose the notion that they unlocked the “prosperity” achievement (i.e. we now have prosperity forever thanks to them) through hard work and have deserved to retire at 60.