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.
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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Haha very nice. Or le président!
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The country that gave us the guillotine won’t allow firing. Ironic.
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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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Wouldn't that extension be something like "as long as the football team is performing well in the championships, no player should be fired"? If so, I'm not sure that I would be as convincing as you think to the people cited in the first tweet...
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The individual-level competence
performance link seems to be universally acceptable in sports.
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You’re a smart guy, but this is Europe. Ask them how they’d feel about having to marry a new mistress, and not being allowed to reverse mistakes on that front.
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French care about more panache - losing but with grace - in sports over winning over and over again. And on the perception of firing/hiring it is hard to explain why dad can’t love you anymore. And when it happens we ask mommy (the state) to put us back on our feet at all costs.
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