My Life on this planet.

14/03/2023: Post at Facebook about French pension protests How unions and journalists live in dreams instead of working with governments for good pension reforms.  We know we live longer, whether we like that or not. And thus, pensions will become too expensive, but also boredom may settle in for many. Instead of union bosses who ask to be fired to show their members that is the way to have good benefits until their real retirement, they should explain employees and employers that, as we can enjoy a longer life, it is logic we need to work longer.  How can unions contribute to good pension reforms? First by accepting we need to work longer. Then argue that pensions should be based not only on the final years of their earnings so workers can descent the career ladder, certainly when they finished paying their mortgage while their children left home. Of course, a certain age is not the only milestone as the length of the career, but also the toughness of a profession is importa...

What is a solution against an ageing population? More children as Hungary's PM Orban thinks ? Than and because the PM's measures of giving away presents, i.e. tax exemptions to women who produce at least 4 offspring, the country's debts will increase for the next about 20 years when finally the children start to earn money and thus pay taxes until those women have 4 children. Visit of Budapest, a beautiful city, as a student when it was still behind the iron curtain Thus, the PM accepts more active people are needed and thus there is space for refugees of whom many are young and thus can work and pay taxes now that can be used to finance an ageing population. When refugees come from countries as bad as Syria there is no choice but to help, including providing safety for Syrians in their country by e.g. imposing a no-fly zone. When people come from less prosperous countries and thus indeed can be considered to be economic migrants as we have many in Europe, than we ...