You wouldn’t believe how many French people believe that profitable businesses should be forbidden from firing employees. I suspect it’s a double-digit percent of the population. Hard to explain why it’s a bad idea to people unable to think in systems.
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One way to make it clear to them would be to ask if this principle extends to the football team they support.
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Don't think it would be convincing. In my understanding, they believe that the role of the economy is to provide jobs, not to be "the best". An analogy with an extremely competitive sport will just convince them that "capitalism" is just for the elite.
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Elected office same?
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You won't believe it but there were some media stories about poor former MPs who were thrown into unemployment when Macron's MPs were elected.
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That is ridiculous, but...at the same time: Hard to fire => hard to hire. And hard to hire is not easy for those who are unemployed.
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