Counterpoint: Inequality between the working and middle classes has increased plenty in homogeneous nations like Japan as well. U.S. median income ranks 6th in the world. Crime is way down. The U.S. is less corrupt than Japan, Korea, Ireland, France, or Taiwan.https://twitter.com/toad_spotted/status/1042758946010918912 …
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The biggest French political corruption scandal in recent memory did end up with a minister spending 3 years in jail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahuzac_affair … what would be the US equivalent?
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This is the biggest one I can remember: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahuzac_affair … A minister had an undeclared foreign bank account (with $800,000 on it) and cheated on his taxes. It ended with a 3-year jail sentence. It was an enormous scandal. In the US this would lead a slow news day, maybe
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I don’t disagree with you but I also have the feeling that French media don’t investigate much. Mediapart is an exception and they report that Sarkozy has received millions from Khadafi.
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