France's pensioners pull higher median income than people actually working. Not including their assets. This is what happens when you protect social programs for 40 years while younger generations get squeezed into gig work and contract positions. The real story: Boomers bought apartments in Paris for next to nothing in the 70s, sold them for millions, and now live better than the workforce that's supposedly supporting the system. The math on intergenerational theft writes itself.