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I agree with you, and French people have nothing against riches as long as they don’t try to evade taxation. We have plenty of rich people who just contribute t
by pjerem 3y ago
I agree with you, and French people have nothing against riches as long as they don’t try to evade taxation. We have plenty of rich people who just contribute to the social system and live their life.
What French people don’t like is when elites try to steal our social system.
However your example isn’t really fair to be honest : Arnault and Bettencourt are really not self-made families, they are both from historical bourgeoisie. But we do have our fair share of new millionaires from the startup ecosystem.
- homarp 3y agoBut Niel is a good example on how you can get rich in France.
- pjerem 3y agoYes, but that’s also the only one self made billionaire I can think of so that make him more an exception than an example. Granted I limit myself to people who created successful businesses with real added value and mostly satisfied customers : businesses that are positive for the society.
- forty 3y agoYes, I was just illustrating that we don't eat the riches, it's indeed not good examples of becoming rich in France (though the truth is our traditional "social elevator" is being broken more and more as free public schools are left in a worse and worse state by politicians who send all their kids to fancy private schools, which makes it harder and harder to move to the upper class)