L'avenir incertain des seniors. De la mutation espérée des fourmis en cigales et du vieil assisté oisif en stimulateur de société

The Uncertain Future of Senior Citizens
Today, people of 50 or over (often known from now on by the term “senior citizens”) represent practically a third of the French population. They receive around 45% of incomes and hold about 50% of the net property of households. “Their rise in power, over fifteen years, has been indisputable” even if they have not – as some people anticipated -fundamentally created a new social dynamic.
Their number and proportion in the total population is destined to rise. But this increase and their demographic influence is in no way sufficient reason, asserts Alain Parant, to believe that the market which they represent will be tomorrow’s Eldorado.
Many uncertainties remain regarding the future of the income of this population whose performance within the society of tomorrow could be quite different from what it has been up to now.