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How serious is the inequality between the rich and the poor in France?

In the minds of most people, the romantic and charming France is a rich country. But the truth is far from what people think.

How are the commoners, the middle class and the rich defined by income and family size? What is the size of the property of these three? The French Inequality Observatory has made the latest analysis report.

Property represents not only living comfort, but also habits, environment, social circles, opportunities, and the possibility of future generations. Due to the high development and solidification of capitalism, the boundaries between the civilian areas and the wealthy areas of French cities represented by Paris are distinct.

In France, the wealthy 10% of the population own about half of the total wealth of society, while the 40% of households who are not wealthy own only 2% of the total wealth, well below the OECD average of 3.3%.

Let’s first look at the explanation of the French Bureau of Economic Statistics. The slowdown in France’s economic growth has led to an increase in unemployment, and this phenomenon is the first to hit the bottom people.

The characteristics of France are that the inequality in inheritance is very prominent, and there are also shortcomings such as unequal opportunities and insufficient social mobility. Michael Förster, an economist at the OECD who specialises in inequality, points out that it takes six generations for a child from the poorest households in France to achieve an “average” income , compared with four to five in other countries.

The economic crisis had a huge impact on France. One in 10 of the homeless population was evicted after 2008. Foster pointed out that the elderly and young people in France are getting poorer. The current face of poverty in France is: youth, unemployment and single-parent families.

As he said, although the government’s tax adjustment (lowering the tax amount for low-income groups and increasing the tax amount for high-income groups) should play a role in easing the gap between the rich and the poor to a certain extent, it cannot offset the economic situation. negative impact.

Going further, in France, the income disparity caused by the wage problem is gradually becoming the most prominent problem in economic inequality, especially in the increasing number of temporary workers.

Some scholars have clearly pointed out that the strict limitation of labor time in French law makes employers tend to sign labor contracts in a short-term way, which directly affects the salary level. Among these temporary workers, 63% of the employed population are women, and even 46% of the jobs are obtained by young people under the age of 30.

Looking further, in the context of world development, economic globalization is also one of the reasons for the increasing gap between the rich and the poor in France .

Because with the acceleration of economic globalization, the global economic pie continues to grow, but Western countries are not the expected beneficiaries, and their low-end manufacturing industry workers have also become victims. Due to the reallocation of resources by capital on a global scale and the prevalence of outsourcing, not only has the manufacturing industry been hollowed out, it is also hollowing out the traditional middle class, and the gap between the rich and the poor has been virtually widened.

The French government has also taken a series of measures to address the widening gap between the rich and the poor, but the growing gap between the rich and the poor now tells us that it is far from enough.

The French economy has recovered to some extent. We hope this is a good sign, and we expect the French government to seize the opportunity and do more.

In fact, for both developed countries and developing countries, the gap between the rich and the poor must be resolved.

Now that China is in the great journey of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, it should pay more attention to the same problem of widening the gap between the rich and the poor, and upgrade the prevention of polarization and the resolution of social conflicts from the policy level to the legal level.

After all, if the gap between the rich and the poor can be solved through national legislation, the various solutions and programs formulated by the state will be effectively implemented, thereby effectively curbing the widening gap between the rich and the poor.