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France has never known so many seniors, and they have never been so rich. In “The boomer parenthesis”, the essayist François de Closets denounces a privileged generation, that of the baby boomers. The children of the post-war period would, according to him, have ruined our country thinking only of their own interests, leaving it to subsequent generations to manage the public debt, the pension bomb or the massive influx of French people into old age. An observation shared by the economist Maxime Sbaihi, author of “Great Aging”, in a great interview in our columns. L’Express looked at these ever-increasing demographic inequalities: people over 60 now hold 60% of financial and non-financial assets. But this divide between age groups is not just material. The gap is also widening in terms of values, with young people who shun the ballot box, are less attached to their work, but are deeply concerned about the ecological crisis. Will France avoid a generational conflict? The Express investigated.