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Was 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 "libera
by bmer 10y ago
Was 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?