Thanks for the article, but after reading about how other politicians feel about the pension reform, I have to ask: how do the citizens feel about it?
Legislation, in theory, is supposed to serve the German people—not just be about delivering promised reforms on a specific timeline. Once again, we’re seeing this sickening behavior of pushing through whatever just to justify their presence.
This, in my opinion, is what makes corporations—sorry, governments—such a horrible place to work, and also so inefficient.
Personally, I’m disappointed. Year after year, working and participating in the German economic system feels more like a punishment than a good decision.
Of course, my perspective is different. I’m a young immigrant with 30+ years of work ahead of me and a substantial amount of taxes to pay.
I’d like to hear other perspectives, ones outside my bubble. I don’t care about politicians—99% of them are just playing a popularity contest.
Thanks for your reply Eduardo. That's a very good point, and focusing on how people in Germany are directly affected by this reform is something we'd like to look at in the coming year too, as more details of the reform are hammered out.
Thanks for the article, but after reading about how other politicians feel about the pension reform, I have to ask: how do the citizens feel about it?
Legislation, in theory, is supposed to serve the German people—not just be about delivering promised reforms on a specific timeline. Once again, we’re seeing this sickening behavior of pushing through whatever just to justify their presence.
This, in my opinion, is what makes corporations—sorry, governments—such a horrible place to work, and also so inefficient.
Personally, I’m disappointed. Year after year, working and participating in the German economic system feels more like a punishment than a good decision.
Of course, my perspective is different. I’m a young immigrant with 30+ years of work ahead of me and a substantial amount of taxes to pay.
I’d like to hear other perspectives, ones outside my bubble. I don’t care about politicians—99% of them are just playing a popularity contest.
Thanks for your reply Eduardo. That's a very good point, and focusing on how people in Germany are directly affected by this reform is something we'd like to look at in the coming year too, as more details of the reform are hammered out.
According to this ZDF-Politbarometer survey, 46 percent of respondents (and 50 percent of CDU/CSU supporters) would support keeping the current pension level as the basis for calculations even after 2031. At the same time, 71 percent of respondents say current pension policy disadvantages younger generations: https://www.zdfheute.de/politik/deutschland/politbarometer-rentenpolitik-bundeshaushalt-wirtschaft-100.html
As we've written about before, each generation has to pay more for disproportionately more retirees. Not exactly fair.