In France, “inequalities still exist” between the working and wealthy classes in terms of income, as well as heritage, academic achievement and even health, according to a report from the Inequality Observatory released Thursday.
In recent years, public debate has focused primarily on inequalities related to skin color, age, or gender, to the point where analysis “in terms of social standing” might seem “disqualified,” lamented Louis Morin, one of the study’s two authors. this report condemning on this occasion “widespread hypocrisy in different political camps”.
However, managers are not only paid much more than workers and employees (the richest 10% earn almost three times as much as the poorest 10%), but they also suffer much less from job insecurity and poor housing conditions. They also suffer less from certain health problems, to the point that a manager “can expect six extra years of life” compared to a worker, the report elaborates.
“What is shocking is the gap between public discourse about equal opportunity and reality,” said Louis Morin, director of the Observatory of Inequality, an independent body that takes stock of inequality every two years in France.
School ‘doesn’t reduce’ inequality enough
In addition, a “social breakdown” is clearly felt in the school, which, of course, “does not increase inequality”, but “does not reduce them enough”. In general, the French population is becoming more and more skilled, but in this area the gap between social classes is not closing, stressed another author of the report, Ann Brunner. Thus, over the period from 2010 to 2020, the proportion of children of workers or employees who received a bachelor’s degree + 5 doubled, from 6 to 13%, and the proportion of children in managerial and secondary professions also increased from 22 to 40%.
Despite at least 30 years of decline in the working world, differences between social classes “remain a powerful driver of division” and therefore tension in society, the authors of the report insist. So they call for a discussion about a more equitable redistribution of wealth, but without focusing on the “handful of super-rich” because in that case, in their opinion, “we won’t settle anything at all.”
Source: Le Parisien
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