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Is there a gini co-efficient type thing useful in here somewhere? Churning out more cash with fewer workers might not be the best metric - France could reasona
by jgamman 10y ago
Is there a gini co-efficient type thing useful in here somewhere? Churning out more cash with fewer workers might not be the best metric - France could reasonably respond with "work allows people to build a better life - we promote a quality of life philosophy. we are OK with that"
still - that's a big as economy bro.
- rhapsodic 10y ago> France could reasonably respond with "work allows people to build a better life - we promote a quality of life philosophy. we are OK with that" I wonder if all those unemployed people in France would agree with that.
- bmer 10y agoWas speaking with a French professor, visiting us at the university for a couple of weeks. He was telling us about how the French public view Hollande's "liberalism" (in France, a "liberal" government prefers lax rules on business---in North America, the word "liberal" no longer has quite the same meaning), which lead to weakening of social service nets, as a major cause of the current unemployment (employment laws were made much more lax).
- rhapsodic 10y agoIt seems intuitive to me that the more expensive and difficult a government makes it to hire and fire workers, the fewer workers businesses are going to hire.
- bmer 10y agoActually, businesses fired a lot of people after the government made it easier to fire people, especially for "out-source-able" positions. Hmm, seems that your intuition is generally wrong.
- rhapsodic 10y agoSeems you believe correlation proves causation.
- bmer 10y agoRather, in the absence of personal experience, I choose to believe someone who is well educated and generally involved in the politics of the country they reside in, rather than coming up with my own fantasies to fit whatever agenda I want to push.
- rhapsodic 10y agoDo the French no longer believe that raising the cost of something will lower demand for it?