Economist Koen Schoors: “La riforma della pensione è inevitabile, ci stiamo dirigendo verso un muro di cemento”

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An economist providing arguments like “We are driving to a concrete wall,” or “The current system must be reformed or it disappears.” and with the “scientific” argument of “hey look at population age”…

This is just neo liberal ideology. The evidence shows that in all predictions according to population studies, the pensions are totally sustainable. A pension cost of 15 or 16% of GDP is actually supported by some countries nowadays (France)

And you should not look only to “how many people are working”, you must see how many products and services are they able to produce. Or you think that with all the robots, machinery, IT, AI etc, nowadays half of the employees can´t produce 2, 4 or several times more goods and services than in the 60s?

Yes, it is very intuitive to think that ageing population will make the pensions impossible, but it was also intuitive to think in the Middle Ages that Sun was revolving around Earth.

Plus, why don´t these “impartial economists” explain why and how the rules of 3% deficit and 60% debt in EU were established? Maybe because those were almost random and inconsistent values? [scientific study source](https://www.elgaronline.com/view/journals/ejeep/17/2/article-p111.xml)

Attack and reduce public pension system is not a “mandatory scientific measure”, it is an ideological option that goes in favor of neo liberal parties and private business, like banks and private pension plans.

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Start with reforming the government.
Optimise the government, cut costs there…