The rebellious deputy of the Somme castigated the accumulation of the billionaire and called for a better distribution of wealth.
François Ruffin has never hidden it: he is very critical of the fortune of French billionaire Bernard Arnault. And on the set of France 5 Thursday evening, the rebellious deputy affirmed that the “merit” of the boss of LVMH was not linked to his success and his fortune.
“The origin of Bernard Arnault’s fortune is a lie he tells the workers in my area. He promises them that he will keep them in the textile industry and finally, he lays off everyone and the only thing who keeps it is Dior. And it is on this that he will build his luxury empire”, denounces the deputy of the Somme.
The director of Thanks boss points above all to Bernard Arnault’s accumulation of wealth, which this month has become the world’s first fortune ahead of Elon Musk, boss of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitteraccording to the Forbes ranking.
“Disproportion, it no longer raises the question of merit”
To accumulate such wealth, an employee paid minimum wage would have to work for several tens of thousands of years. “Imagine the seamstresses sewing Kenzo costumes on their machines from prehistoric times in their caves until today”, launches François Ruffin.
“The disproportion, it no longer raises the question of merit, we cannot say that Bernard Arnault has 400,000 times more merit than a worker”, he denounces.
“And who deserved, during the Covid crisis? Who deserved? Who made the country go round? Who continues to make the country go round every day?” asks the deputy, who praises the work of those on the “front line” during the health crisis. “It’s not the shareholders, it’s not Bernard Arnault, it’s not the business leaders!”
François Ruffin also criticizes the fact that “no reward” has been granted to these workers. According to him, their situation has even deteriorated over the past three years. “There is a first sentence: inflation without wage indexation. And a pension reform where it is they who will pay two more years,” he denounces.
