If, like me, you didn't know who Sarah Saldmann was before seeing the new film by Gilles Perret and François Ruffin, you will quickly get to know her. A brief sequence is enough to discover, astounded, the existence of this lawyer with preppy phrasing who does not hesitate to affirm that the unemployed are welfare recipients and profiteers. In fiction, the character would seem far too cliché to convince. But this person is real: from “Grandes Gueules” to “Touche pas à mon poste”, she multiplies ultra-reactionary speeches in several sadly popular shows.
Invited by François Ruffin, exasperated by his words, to come and live for a while in the shoes of a person living on minimum wage, the columnist agrees to try the experience for a few days. The challenge is biased in advance: it will in fact involve introducing her to a certain number of professional activities practiced by those at the bottom of the salary scale – and from which she believes they could earn much more provided you show more ambition and less laziness.
However, living on the minimum wage is not (only) that: it is also worrying at every moment about not being able to end the month other than in the red, caught in the throat by incompressible bills that cannot be reduced. then leave only crumbs. It means having to give up most of the leisure activities you dream of, putting aside most of your projects, dressing usefully instead of dressing pretty, giving up health expenses that would make you feel better, etc. In short, it has little to do with a simple immersion course in a fishmonger or with a care assistant, which we would carry out like a role play before returning to our luxurious home.
I will go to work for you
But we have to start with something: like Valéry Giscard…
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