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meanwhile 6-week vacations, high speed trains, walkable cities, generous child benefits, and, well, quality of life salute you from here
by lejalv 9mo ago
meanwhile 6-week vacations, high speed trains, walkable cities, generous child benefits, and, well, quality of life salute you from here
- petcat 9mo agoAll great things for sure. But the French economy has been stagnant for decades. There is no growth. One option would be to allow more immigration, but not allow the immigrants to have access to the public benefits. Obviously that is a divisive political issue they struggle badly with.
- VWWHFSfQ 9mo ago> the French economy has been stagnant for decades. There is no growth. This is one of the biggest reasons why it is trivially easy for USA, China, and Russia to squeeze them (and the whole EU) from all sides.
- ifwinterco 9mo agoThe issue is a lot of French people in the private sector (small businesses, contractors etc.) actually work really hard and often long hours to subsidise public sector employees barely working and retiring at 55. At the end of the day, that just isn't sustainable politically and it's pretty questionable if it's morally correct either
- paganel 9mo agoAt some point the money runs out for all of that stuff, it seems that in France that's just about to happen.
- WarmWash 9mo ago6 week vacation? Europe has been on a 30 year vacation, and it's starting to look like that vacation might need to end.