Convergence of Catastrophes by Guillaume Faye & Jared Taylor

Author:Guillaume Faye & Jared Taylor [Faye, Guillaume & Taylor, Jared]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Political Science, Social Science, Future Studies, Political Ideologies, History & Theory, Nationalism & Patriotism
ISBN: 9781907166464
Publisher: Arktos Media Ltd
Published: 2012-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

It is not difficult to understand that, in a world of generalised competition, as soon as one country shortens its workweek, it grows poor and becomes proletarian, especially when this minimum wage is accompanied by (and at the same time causes) growing tax burdens and payroll withholding. The situation is aggravated by the masses of people on public relief and mouths to feed with no skills that are pouring out of the Third World.

The result is that French businesses are the ones in Europe that invest most heavily abroad. This is not a victory, but a defeat. They are moving away from their local communities; they are fleeing France (just as foreign investors do), where the cost of labour grows (because of the cost of entitlements) in proportion to the shrinking of its productivity. At the same time, business executives and young college graduates are leaving France en masse — the elites, those who want to work and love to work — replaced by unskilled immigrants. France’s outstanding trump card, the legendary quality of its workforce, is rapidly degrading.

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There is also a significant correlation between the unemployment rate and the reduced workweek. This is quite logical: the work of one group creates jobs for others. The less a country — or a business — works, the less it ‘sends orders’ to neighbouring suppliers. If the French worked a 45-hour workweek, like the Americans, instead of 35 hours a week, their businesses would create that many more jobs in France itself. Work creates work. By augmenting the objective cost of work in France, the reduced workweek obliges businesses that take orders, both from French and foreign, to turn away from French suppliers. Recently, a large publishing house drove a French printer into bankruptcy when the printer raised its prices because of the 35-hour workweek. The publisher chose a Spanish printer. Hospitals, similarly, have been obliged either to hire supplementary personnel — thereby increasing costs and leading to two-tier medicine where the wealthy receive better care — or to cut back on the quality of healthcare.

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