Chapter 60: The Problem of Non-Existence
The content of the government meeting quickly appeared in the newspapers, and of course the matter of inheritance tax was naturally deleted, and Ferdinand did not want to do anything yet!
Now everyone's concern is focused on the pension, how to establish a long-term and stable pension system?
The pension systems of European countries have been whipped out, no matter which country's system, they are only considering the short-term problem, once the aging society comes, it will face a funding gap.
Unlike other countries, Bulgaria's traditional strength is still strong, and the current pension system relies on children to provide for the elderly.
There are also some people who have a retirement salary, of course, this is only a minority. Usually it is only the great hero of the enterprise, and after retirement, the capitalists will pay a certain pension to buy people's hearts, and ordinary people still don't think about it.
The window paper has been pierced, and many people are calculating how many years the pension insurance can last, and the final conclusion is not optimistic, and the future can only rely on government funding.
Many scholars have proposed that with the improvement of medical and health conditions, everyone's life expectancy will become longer and longer, and in the future, there will be a social status quo of four generations and five generations living together.
Once the pension system collapses, then the sixty-year-old man needs to support the octogenarian, and the octogenarian may still have a centenarian alive.
That's right, according to the most pessimistic estimates, by the 50s of the 20th century, the average life expectancy in Bulgaria will exceed 80 years, and in the 21st century, it is not a problem for the average life expectancy to exceed 90 years, and the conjecture that the average life expectancy will break 100 years in the future has also been proposed.
At the same time, it is also proposed that with the deepening of industrialization, the birth rate of the population will gradually decline, and the number of elderly people will exceed the number of young people, which is also just around the corner.
The Population Office also released a set of survey data, taking the United Kingdom and France as examples, the birth rate of the population has been declining year by year after entering the industrialized society.
This has not happened in Bulgaria with more than 20 percent of the country's annual financial investment, but it is also a question whether this investment can be sustained.
The whole society is talking about this issue, and even the international media are joining in the fun, and many people suddenly find that their pension system may collapse in the future, and governments have to stand up to refute the rumors.
Politicians know that no one knows what the future holds, as long as it doesn't explode in their term of office.
In order to establish a lasting pension system, some people even proposed to print money and let the whole society bear this figure through currency depreciation, and then soon people were speechless.
Playing currency devaluation in the era of the gold standard will only be done by idiots! People with a little common sense know that the issuance of currency is not one-to-one with gold, which also includes the existence of government credit!
It is not that you print 10 percent of the currency that will depreciate by 10 percent, which will actually cause the collapse of the credit system, and may even depreciate by 50 or 60 percent!
The pension system has not been established for a long time, but the social assistance system has been established smoothly, with full government allocation, and the actual cost is not much.
There are very few people who meet the criteria, and there is a prerequisite that they have contributed to Bulgaria, do not have a moral criminal record, (i.e. have committed a crime in law and violated morality) and are in financial difficulties, and their children are unable to afford to provide for themselves.
According to the Population Department, the number of people who meet this condition will not exceed four figures.
The main reason is that there are not many elderly people now, many people are over sixty years old, but they have not lost their labor force, and now there is a shortage of labor force in the whole country, and the government naturally does not formulate a law on compulsory retirement, and many people will work in a company to death.
Under the power of tradition, these old employees are the heroes of the enterprise, and the capitalists usually cannot be dismissed casually for the sake of fame, at most they can only change positions, as long as they are healthy, and they do not take the initiative to retire, they can continue to do it.
And most Bulgarians have a lot of children, and there are still very few children who have no ability to support the elderly.
After carefully examining the data, Ferdinand came to a strange conclusion, that is, the current pension problem in Bulgaria basically does not exist!
More than 90 percent of the more than 2 million elderly people who are over 60 years old are still struggling, and they still have their own jobs to support themselves.
The people who are really retired are mainly engaged in heavy physical labor, and they are really unable to do it when they are old, and there is no way to complete the re-employment. And most of these parts do not meet the criteria for receiving a pension!
Most of the Bulgarians who were born and raised in Bulgaria served in the army when they were young, and many of them have made military exploits, not to mention those who are eligible for military merits and land, they all have property and there is no pension problem.
Even ordinary people have a military dependent, and most of the enterprises they have professionally resettled in are more economically profitable, and even if they are unemployed again, they can ask the government for help and re-employment.
Their social status is very high, and most of them work locally, for these people, the capitalists cannot be dismissed without cause, so as long as they do their duty, there is almost no unemployment.
When they get Bulgarian citizenship, the younger ones are fine, mainly the older ones, and the capitalists will not sign long-term employment contracts at all.
This group of people is the last army of the unemployed, but most of them do not contribute enough to the country and are not eligible for pensions.
If it weren't for the outbreak of the world war, Ferdinand recruited a large number of soldiers among the immigrants, and it is estimated that this situation would be much more serious, because of the factors of the world war, Bulgaria gave birth to millions of local tyrants.
Although their land is not fully developed, it is still possible to support their families. When the children are rich, the parents' pension problem naturally does not need the state.
This conclusion was not only made by Ferdinand, but also by many intelligent people in Bulgaria, and as the discussion continued, the data were published in the newspapers.
Even those who advocate the establishment of a pension system are collectively dumbfounded.
Those who are eligible for pensions do not have pension problems; People who have pension problems are not eligible for pensions!
In the end, experts and scholars came to a conclusion that in Bulgaria, there is a return, and the problem of pension is not the current social problem!
Then, everyone began to study again, and the employment system of Bulgarian enterprises was even more surprising.
Many people find that more than 50% of Bulgarians have worked in a company all their lives, and many elderly people insist on not retiring, and there are not a few who are left by the company to clean and watch the door.
Career for life! Well, this is not Ferdinand's first initiative, it has been seen in many places before this, and in traditional family businesses, there is no such thing as retirement at all.
Before the capitalist economy developed, many people worked for a family for generations, such as Ferdinand's men, there were many people who served the Kohali family for several generations, including the squires, guards, butlers, etc., who were all mixed with his ancestors for generations.
Their ability may not be the strongest, but the victory lies in loyalty, the whole family is mixed up, and has been brainwashed for hundreds of years, how can he not be reused?
On the one hand, Bulgaria's labor law prohibits layoffs without cause, and on the other hand, under the influence of traditional forces, people are reluctant to change jobs.
This kind of employment mechanism, whether it is good or bad, at least many social problems do not exist.
The leading role is powerful, Ferdinand's companies did this, other capitalists followed suit, and the ancestors used people like this, so everyone did not find it strange.
The results of the research of sociologists show that the question of the enterprise employment mechanism promotes the stability of the whole society; This stable social form promotes the development of the economy, and finally makes up for the enterprise.
Economists, on the other hand, believe that such a fixed employment model cannot give full play to the vitality of the enterprise and stimulate the potential of the individual, which is not conducive to maximizing the benefits of the enterprise.
Which of these two views is correct is still in dispute. Ferdinand now finally knows why there has not been a general strike in Bulgaria.
On the one hand, the salary level in Bulgaria is not low, and everyone can get by; (The standards are basically set by him, and other companies can only follow suit, so naturally they will not be too low.) )
On the other hand, they have been working in a company all their lives, they are all old employees, and many problems can be discussed directly with the boss.
As long as it's not a last resort, who will follow the strike? Just because your company is not well treated doesn't mean that other companies are not treated well? It's a big deal that you change jobs!
After a long time, everyone has feelings for the company, and will only hope that the company will get better and better, so that everyone's job can be guaranteed. It's impossible for them to make a big deal out of sympathy for your plight and ruin their own jobs, right?
Having figured out this problem, Ferdinand's worries suddenly disappeared, and now it is difficult to have an impact on Bulgaria, no matter what kind of thoughts.
As long as his enterprises are stabilized, Bulgarian society will be stable, and when the society is stable, will anyone still want to rebel?
The issue of establishing a pension system continues to be hotly discussed, but the topic has gone astray, and the quarrel has been ruptured about the superiority of the Bulgarian system.
Even the topic of the whole of Europe has been brought over, and many international media have criticized Bulgaria's conservative system, which is not in line with the development of the times.
The Bulgarian media, on the other hand, slammed them for their moral depravity and their penchant for money. The Bulgarian daily newspaper also published an article that it doesn't matter if it doesn't fit the times, as long as it conforms to the development of Bulgaria.
The London Daily accused Bulgaria of lifelong employment as restricting the development of enterprises and making it inhumane for the elderly to continue working.
The Sofia Evening News took out a set of survey data to prove that this is a voluntary act of people, many people have a good family background and can retire a long time ago, but people are unwilling to retire from the show, this is people's freedom.
I don't know if it's free, but Marshal Popov of Bulgaria, after his retirement, actually became a cobbler and repaired shoes on the street, which surprised him.
After figuring out the situation, Ferdinand couldn't cry or laugh a little, it was people's childhood dream, and now that he has retired and relaxed, he naturally wants to realize his dream.
This kind of strange thing, there is more than one case, this group of outburst aristocracy, what are they doing now, in addition to cobblers, there are also chefs and blacksmiths, most of them will do their own farming after they go home.
Don't give them any reason, that is, they are willing, they have willful capital, and it is the freedom of others to do whatever they like.
First the Bulgarian media and the London media fought each other in the air, and soon the European media were involved in supporting the views of both sides, almost equally.
Anyway, everyone knows that only when there are topics that the people care about, can newspapers sell well. As for whether the argument is correct or not, it doesn't matter what the result of the argument is.
And then Marshal Popov, who was the most famous, became famous again, and unlike before, now he was famous for his freedom of life, and before he knew it, he became a representative of liberalism!
As an alternative among the aristocracy, the Bulgarian eruption aristocracy also went to the world. Those who support them see them as the nobility of the new era, who seem to represent a free life, while the opposition sees them as a cancer among the aristocracy.
Many old nobles also protested to Ferdinand, demanding that their titles be abolished, and that they not let this group of scum tarnish the honor of the aristocratic class!
Well, after receiving this strange request, Ferdinand directly chose to ignore it, what era is this, and he can't see the situation clearly, and he actually wants to point out the country?
Although Ferdinand also thought that their people's practices were somewhat strange and unacceptable, but this was their own choice, and they did not violate the laws of Bulgaria, so they simply didn't bother to care.
In the midst of controversy, the issue of pensions was directly ignored by everyone.
A person who is able to receive a pension does not need a pension; People who need a pension are not eligible for a pension!
So why build a pension now? There is no need to waste the government's precious administrative resources and increase the burden on young people.
In a responsible manner, UNFPA officials conducted another questionnaire on the elderly, although the scope of the survey was limited to those who were eligible for pensions.
Finally, the results of the survey show that most people are not interested in pensions, they say that they have the ability to support themselves and do not want to become a burden on society!
And then there is no then, even they themselves are not interested, Ferdinand will naturally not be interested, this question will be talked about in the future!