Post AXl8acRADeK5AECLHE by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
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 (DIR) Post #AXl8aahkf0P3n5wYr2 by Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social
       2023-07-15T13:22:00Z
       
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       This just in: The rich control everything?!
       
 (DIR) Post #AXl8abHYVt2ja8h9f6 by OutOfExile_IDR_Voice@kolektiva.social
       2023-07-16T05:05:20Z
       
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       @Radical_EgoCom "It's almost as if"??No, it is and has been.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXl8abriLRxzOHc21Q by GeofCox@climatejustice.social
       2023-07-16T16:40:27Z
       
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       @OutOfExile_IDR_Voice @Radical_EgoCom Throughout most of my life the UK neoliberal media has been predicting the French economy would collapse - because 57% of it is in the public sector and over 10% more in other forms of social ownership (co-ops, etc), because the less-than-a-third that remains in the private sector is highly regulated, because French workers have generous holidays and other benefits, but most of all because French trade unions are militant - and successful.But how wrong could the UK media be?  It is in fact their own 'free market' economy that seems to be collapsing, while the French is relatively stable.One thing the UK media seem to have missed entirely is the obvious fact that strong trade unions drive productivity.  Of course they do: if you increase labour costs both public and private sector invest in automation and skills.  The average French worker can stop at their 2-hour lunch break on Thursday and still produce as much as the average Brit produces in the whole week - and as Krugman says "Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it is almost everything".
       
 (DIR) Post #AXl8acRADeK5AECLHE by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-07-16T17:48:56Z
       
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       @GeofCox @OutOfExile_IDR_Voice @Radical_EgoCom As a French person:- Point: it's obvious to me that most of the US/UK press do NOT undertsand any of the things you wrote. Hence, every 5 years, you will have articles about collapse of the French econo;y... & 5 years later, articles about how French people are the best in world.- Counterpoint: Emmanuel Macron is doing his best to bring the French economy to the same "level" of protection as the US & the UK. Which is why he is HATED in France.