> isn't that the whole point? It isn't. The grand-parent post implied that paying €2 for every euro in the employee's pocket what a terrible disadvantage for F

> isn't that the whole point? It isn't. The grand-parent post implied that paying €2 for every euro in the employee's pocket what a terrible disadvantage for French companies. My point was to show that, all things considered, it was not a huge disadvantage, and that it might even not have been a disadvantage at all, if we knew how to communicate about it. May I add that employees are, on average, more risk-averse than entrepreneurs. So the lower-risk, lower-reward compromise enforced by France will be more seductive to many of them than the quasi-libertarian approach adopted in the USA.