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> ... or to the benefit their friends owning private companies. Yup this one in France is really a big problem. The public sector spendings officially represe
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
> ... or to the benefit their friends owning private companies.
Yup this one in France is really a big problem. The public sector spendings officially represents something like 58.1% of the french GDP (official "Insee" numbers from 2023, for 2022)... France is not far from a planned economy and, unsurprisingly, it's a particularly harsh environment for real small private SMEs (i.e. those without friends at the state) and for entrepreneurs, for they're getting trounced by taxes.
And that gigantic state (percentage wise of the GDP, not on the world stage) still cannot prevent days of riots and drug-dealers from ruling the streets (like in the city of Marseille).
A deeply corrupt state where public servants are planted so that taxes can grow and, in return, the people don't even get safe streets.
But all is fine and well for these corrupt politicians because soon they'll be able to prevent comments such as yours or mine from being read by anyone.
- WeylandYutani 3y agoFrance has always been pretty bad at running an economy. Ofcourse for the rest of Europe this is a good thing- French military ambitions have been consistently sabotaged by this oversight. Good military, brilliant engineers and capable bureaucrats but terrible merchants. And wars are won on the stock market.
- bombolo 3y ago> Ofcourse for the rest of Europe this is a good thing For the kings sure… for the people much less. Imagine england being defeated and india being free of colonialism.
- pmontra 3y agoAlmost no part of the world was free from European colonialism. France was one of the largest colonial powers. If England lost to France maybe India would be speaking French instead of English now.
- bombolo 3y agoAnd we can all agree that french revolution values are much better than whatever crap the rest of europe was pushing?
- pmontra 3y agoLiberté, Égalité, Fraternité: yes. What actually happened, the Terror and an Emperor: no.
- bombolo 3y agoI mean, study some history… with the emperor they still fared much better than before. Which is why they loved the emperor. But I understand that the anglosaxon history might be a bit biased and edited.
- Yoric 3y agoI'm not so sure about that. For one thing, France is and remains one of the richest countries in the world. For a second thing, I seem to remember that France is currently outperforming both Germany and the UK (I read this in both German and British newspapers, but I don't remember the details). Is it perfect? Far from it. But French bashing feels pretty counter-productive.
- ever1 3y agoThey are so terrible that they manage to get the 2nd place in arms export... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/france-challenging-russia-as-second-biggest-arms-exporter-behind-us https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/france-challen...
- anthk 3y ago>Marseille The US has Detroid, LA gangs, SF with the streets filled with homeless people...
- pb7 3y agoThere are more homeless per capita in Paris than in SF.
- FrenchDevRemote 3y agoFrance is really far from a planned economy. Marseille's worst neighborhoods are really chill compared to the bad parts of any American city. The streets are pretty safe. Your comment is kinda ridiculous, stop watching TV. Yeah there are lot of taxes, but those taxes come in handy when you can get 2 years of unemployment benefits when starting a company. Or when you know, get a cancer that would cost a few millions to treat.
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- embwbam 3y agoMy girlfriend had a poorly aimed egg thrown at her late at night in Marseille on a kebab run for wearing a short skirt in a Muslim neighborhood. Seems pretty rough to me!
- sudosysgen 3y agoYou can find far worse anecdotes for any large US city.
- FrenchDevRemote 3y agoWhich neighborhood/district? I don't know what you mean by muslim neighborhood. Most of the city is really multicultural.
- ever1 3y agosource: trust me bro
- Slava_Propanei 3y agoIf Frances streets are any safer, it is due to a less retarded population and not due to any successes by Le goubernement. Of course, France is striving to import a more retarded and dangerous populace as quickly as possible, so who knows who will win that contest.
- micadep 3y ago