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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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.
What would they say if you reminded them that French companies doing x compete with companies in other countries doing x, and that if the French ones do it badly, they'll go out of business and all those jobs will be lost?
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One answer they might give is that the economy shouldn't be as global and connected as it is today pricesely because of that reason.
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Exactly, it’s a terrible thinking loop!
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French companies are much more aggressive as business operators/competitors outside of France.
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“Then the government should help French company because [insert populist reason]” Reasons usually include : - the Americans do it - China is cutting labor costs - we pay taxes for that
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That this system is perverse, pitting poor people from every countries against each other, and that we should get rid of it. They don't see firing as a means to continuously evolve and improve for customers and employees, they see a social murder for money.
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And in France, with our high unemployment, getting back can be very hard when you fall through. So there's some truth in their perception.
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They really don’t care. France is a socialist country, a deeply socialist one with powerful communist unions. The job market is highly regulated, workers can’t be fired, they get 45 days of vacations, stock options and retirement benefits. For the State employees, it’s even...
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...worse with pension payments starting at age 50, 4 months of paid salary/year and full pension at 2x the national average. Macron wants to change that, but 72% of the French are for the strike which currently paralizes France.
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