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>France is not a great place to make business, but the quality of life is fantastic. France is a privileged country from the geopolitical point of view. I am

>France is not a great place to make business, but the quality of life is fantastic. France is a privileged country from the geopolitical point of view. I am from Spain, and if you compare it with it has much more water flows, most of the country is plain and easy and cheap to transport things by rail or rivers(without so much mountains in the middle), the soil is rich and is irrigated, and it is in the centre of Europe. It have access to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. It has warn weather. I also have traveled a lot. Could you compare France with Morocco or Lybia? China? Russia? The only country that I personally know that is as privileged as France in the world geopolitically is Argentina. Argentina is richer than France, the political system has lots of similarities and it is an absolute mess. Other things that you mention has not so much to do with the political system but with History. E.g French, Italian or Spanish people love to eat well, good food, as part of our culture, while anglo saxons in general do not consider eating healthy a priority. IMHO the political system is France is sh^t, with other system they would be much wealthier. It is very centralised so Paris is very different from the rest of the country. Bureaucracy is so high (bureau is a French word). What saves France is competition with other systems in Europe when they do crazy stuff like putting a 75% tax on the rich, people can move easily to neighbour countries and their politicians reconsider things.

saiya-jin 3y ago
> Argentina is richer than France Can't agree here, France has cca 2x GDP of Argentina, and TBH Argentina is a typical South America mess, could be worse than some neighbors, could be better (ie Chile). As much as I like bashing France for some weird aspects of their mentality and correspondingly not reaching a fraction of the potential its population has (from somebody living in Switzerland this is painfully obvious anytime I visit, which I do constantly, but Spain doesn't fare better in my eyes in this, in contrary), it is a progressive nation, modern, labor force is smart and effective so they don't need to pull overtimes just to match expectations, relatively (or absolutely if considered globally) rich, stable, with astonishingly beautiful nature - no wonder its year after year the most visited country in the world by tourists. Poor don't just bow down and work endlessly barely surviving, destroying their lives to support rich classes, chasing some pipe dream of emerging as a winner of some absurd rat race if you work yourself to death, quality of life looks different to them (and I agree 100% here, life is too short for that crap). But yes for opening business its outright horrible place, state is your enemy and if you are above median income, they go after your money without even trying to hide it or act fairly. Somebody has to sponsor that western Europe communism and its not going to be poor burning cars on barricades or blocking roads or city centers. But these are rather just very visible details, overall what I wrote above stands.
tyre 3y ago
> The only country that I personally know that is as privileged as France in the world geopolitically is Argentina. Argentina is richer than France, the political system has lots of similarities and it is an absolute mess. What. Argentina has inflation >100% per year, their currency has a thriving black market to be useable at all, many people stockpile dollars in their homes because the banks won’t give it back, they block exports, etc. They’re not more geopolitically privileged than the United States, for one, which has the global reserve currency. > Bureaucracy is so high (bureau is a French word). ~30% of English has roots in French so I don’t think this is relevant. That includes words like legume, but they don’t hold a special place in the nut or vegetable markets. (For fun historical reasons, what English calls legumes is largely associated with nuts but the French word refers to vegetables.)
tyre 3y ago
> The only country that I personally know that is as privileged as France in the world geopolitically is Argentina. Argentina is richer than France, the political system has lots of similarities and it is an absolute mess. What. Argentina has inflation >100% per year, their currency has a thriving black market to be useable at all, many people stockpile dollars in their homes because the banks won’t give it back, they block exports, etc. They’re not more geopolitically privileged than the United States, for one, which has the global reserve currency. > Bureaucracy is so high (bureau is a French word). ~30% of English has roots in French so I don’t think this is relevant. That includes words like legume, but they don’t hold a special place in the nut or vegetable markets. (For fun historical reasons, what English calls legumes is largely associated with nuts but the French word refers to vegetables. This is also true of prune/plum and grape/raisin.)
- BiteCode_dev 3y ago
  Yes because the US with the oil, the gigantic land, the isolation from enemy states and all possible flora, faunas and weather is not priviledged.

saiya-jin 3y ago

> Argentina is richer than France Can't agree here, France has cca 2x GDP of Argentina, and TBH Argentina is a typical South America mess, could be worse than some neighbors, could be better (ie Chile). As much as I like bashing France for some weird aspects of their mentality and correspondingly not reaching a fraction of the potential its population has (from somebody living in Switzerland this is painfully obvious anytime I visit, which I do constantly, but Spain doesn't fare better in my eyes in this, in contrary), it is a progressive nation, modern, labor force is smart and effective so they don't need to pull overtimes just to match expectations, relatively (or absolutely if considered globally) rich, stable, with astonishingly beautiful nature - no wonder its year after year the most visited country in the world by tourists. Poor don't just bow down and work endlessly barely surviving, destroying their lives to support rich classes, chasing some pipe dream of emerging as a winner of some absurd rat race if you work yourself to death, quality of life looks different to them (and I agree 100% here, life is too short for that crap). But yes for opening business its outright horrible place, state is your enemy and if you are above median income, they go after your money without even trying to hide it or act fairly. Somebody has to sponsor that western Europe communism and its not going to be poor burning cars on barricades or blocking roads or city centers. But these are rather just very visible details, overall what I wrote above stands.

tyre 3y ago

> The only country that I personally know that is as privileged as France in the world geopolitically is Argentina. Argentina is richer than France, the political system has lots of similarities and it is an absolute mess. What. Argentina has inflation >100% per year, their currency has a thriving black market to be useable at all, many people stockpile dollars in their homes because the banks won’t give it back, they block exports, etc. They’re not more geopolitically privileged than the United States, for one, which has the global reserve currency. > Bureaucracy is so high (bureau is a French word). ~30% of English has roots in French so I don’t think this is relevant. That includes words like legume, but they don’t hold a special place in the nut or vegetable markets. (For fun historical reasons, what English calls legumes is largely associated with nuts but the French word refers to vegetables.)

tyre 3y ago

BiteCode_dev 3y ago
Yes because the US with the oil, the gigantic land, the isolation from enemy states and all possible flora, faunas and weather is not priviledged.