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by skitout 7y ago
It's worth noting that the income tax use to be more than 90% on the very rich...
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Police brutality against French journalists: a worrying situation(mappingmediafreedom.org)
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What Is Real and What Is Not in the Global FDI Network?(imf.org)
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Toussaint Louverture(en.wikipedia.org)
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by skitout 7y ago
I use LeechBlock on my browser to set a maximum time I can use some websites, according the day, hours... (typically restrict myself to go too much on news site during the day)..;
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$5.2T of fossil fuel subsidies in 2017 says the IMF(imf.org)
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If Burundi goes 0 emissions tomorrow it hardly matters If California does, it matters : - It shows it is possible, and increase political pressures on others - It create a pressure and market (California is big enough and Burundi or A
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by skitout 7y ago
There are heavy subsidies to fossil fuel (4.7 trillons a year globally says the IMF)... Mostly negative externalities. Carbon tax can be seen as a tax... or as the end of a subsidy, allowing to get the most efficient solutions for the peopl
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by skitout 7y ago
By the way, IMF says that globally, fossil fuel subsidies represent $4.7 trillion / year... https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/05/02/Glo...
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by skitout 7y ago
Carbon generates negative externalities paid by everyone : current system heavily subsidies carbon (and many polluting stuff)... IMF says "Globally, subsidies remained large at $4.7 trillion" https://www.imf.org/en
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With a lot of energy efficiency, heat/cold storage, electricity storage and demand-response you can go a long way while limiting the extra "capacity to account for times when they aren't producing at 100%"... . But of c
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Jean Marc Jancovici say that cost "should" not be relevant ; however currently this an important criterion of choice (if you double the price of energy tomorrow, you get riots) Renewable + heat/cold storage + electricity stor
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Ask HN: Why so few posts about blockchain in HN?
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Laziness Does Not Exist(humanparts.medium.com)
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Why do Bitcoin and crypto have no future(medium.com)
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Many are protesting to avoid the collapse...
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by skitout 7y ago
Don't you ?
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Note that 35h did not applied to everyone, relabeled some paid break time as unpaid work time... Most importantly it was "sold" by allowing companies more flexibility with the workers... gain in productivity, more pressure (and a
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by skitout 7y ago
So much more is paid every month for this perk than for normal worker. Note that SNCF is not in deficit every year, but generally post some profit. Though they have a unhealthy debt burden, mainly due to enormous investment needed to create
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by skitout 7y ago
(In French) For rail worker: https://www.la-retraite-en-clair.fr/parcours-professionnel-r... For "normal" workers: https://www.la-retraite-en-clair.fr/parcours-professionnel-r...
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That is why they can't recruit math teachers for example...
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@user5994461 is wrong Train worker do pays "much more" every month for their special pension... But currently this is not enough and the system is heavily subsidized... But the biggest part of this disequilibrium is that there use
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Debate and a referendum would be the democratic way. Current French Republic was dubbed "presidential monarchy" (in no other democracy a single person had this level of power)... Since 2002 French President has even more power...
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France lack 4 millions jobs at least... hurry to find or accept a job don't change this !
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I was in the protest with my friend entrepreneur, tour-guide, teacher, unemployed, artist-assistant and a bartender... Special pension is only one point of many, and there are different ways to deal with it. Note that for some special pensi
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Why ? As automation and robotization increase it seems eminently reasonable that a typical working career would be smaller (working less every week, or less years "full time")
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The protest is not about SNCF - they are only part of the pic. Let's talk about the pension reform in general, not about the SNCF (with some sloppy info btw)
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What you say also work for corporation (and rich people) and things like tax level, tax break, regulation... The only differences is rich people and some corporation can move to a different country (or threaten to do so), most people can&#x
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Most protestors don't want train driver to retire at 52... most protestors just don't want a system where everybody has to work longer, for less (despite a high rate of unemployment)...
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by skitout 7y ago
Not saying he is god. Just saying that different people, including well-know experts, has different opinions... and that this article is misleading.

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