Lizard_King wrote:

Zebco Fuckface wrote:

France isn't the economic nightmare conservatives think it is; French productivity is close to that of the US, and higher than the UK's. Unfortunately, I can't find the source for this at the moment; I remember it was in an OECD table.

Individual productivity, sure. I can believe that. I bet I'd be more productive per hour if I only had 30 hours a week to work in, and was getting paid overtime for each hour beyond that. But I'd have to be delusional to think that an employment framework like that was efficient in the long term.
It is the general economic stagnation, based around structural problems like the fact that the only growth sector at any given time in a long while has been the public sector, which creates the illusion of a profitable balance of employment in the country. The picture gets much worse when you remove the massive proportion of people that are simply representing a recycling of tax money rather than wealth creation.

If you want to criticize France, criticize them for their unemployment rate. Those who do have jobs make about the same that we do.

Totally in agreement there.