DOOM: French

[AtW]

“French have got even lazier, study shows, with vast majority happy to work less

Study appears to boost Leftist claims of ‘right to idleness’ as French happy to earn less for more leisure time

Famed for their marathon holidays, extended lunches and 35-hour working week, the French have long basked in the enviable image of enjoying life’s pleasures while, somehow, getting the job done.

But the Covid pandemic has taken the French view of a proper work-life balance to new extremes, with a new study claiming that France has succumbed to a “laziness epidemic” in which swathes of the country say they "can't be bothered" to work hard, go out or even socialise.

Many people in France are quite happy to work fewer hours even if that means earning less money, according to findings by Ifop and the Jean-Jaurès foundation.

In 1990, some 60 per cent of French people said work was “very important” in their life, compared to 31 per cent for leisure. Today, those who view work as a high priority has plummeted to 24 per cent while 41 per cent view leisure as very important.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...ajority-happy/

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“French have got even lazier, study shows

No it hasn't. And no headline like that is worth reading the article.

[Protagoras]

Maybe the UK has started an epidemic of 'Lazy Old Men' ...

Doing nothing is a highly underrated activity.

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In that article, being lazy is a right according to a green MP. There's a slightly longer version in the DE:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/scien...loyment-macron

Green MP and radical eco feminist Sandrine Rousseau, for instance, has argued that people deserve a “right to idleness”, sparking fury when she claimed that working hard is “essentially a Right-wing value”.

She said: "We have the right to idleness. We have the right to change professions, we also have the right to take breaks in our life and, above all, we need to regain time, a sense of sharing and a four-day week."

How loony can you get? Not that people should not make their own choices, but they should not expect others to pay.

[Protagoras]

Not that people should not make their own choices, but they should not expect others to pay.

Leftish values / poor / exploited etc - expect 'someone else' to pay for the things they are not getting (subsidies)

Rightish values / wealthy / corrupt / incompetent - expect 'someone else' to pay for the things to which they are entitled (bailouts)

The middle way is to bend over and pay up. Curiously, both camps seek to destroy the middle, which will rather inevitably leave them with no one to help them out.

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Rightish values / wealthy / corrupt / incompetent - expect 'someone else' to pay for the things to which they are entitled

Don't disagree with that. Some of the handouts are daft. Not as well off as some of you lot, having contracted in technical sector, but I've still got plenty of dosh, yet my electric bills are near zero. Still, impossible to check who is really needy when a government has to make quick decisions.