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Re:Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing... by namdnay on Friday March 26, 2021 @06:37PM (#26597853)
In France your jobseeker's allowance is 80% of the average salary of your last 12 working months. Whether your last employer was for 10 years or 10 days. It starts slowly ramping down after the second year of searching I think
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Re:Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing... by barry-cotter on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:22PM (#26598567)
French unemployment has been well above US unemployment since the 70s. This isn’t a free lunch. If the state makes employing people more expensive employers will employ fewer people.
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Re:Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing... by paledot on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:17PM (#26599609)
Given sufficiently generous unemployment benefits (ie. mincome), I fail to see how that's a bad thing.
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Re:Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing... by barry-cotter on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:23PM (#26599641)
Because most people who do work are being productive, doing useful things, serving their fellows. And being unemployed if you’re of working age and without some other productive role is awful.

Unemployment is bad for society generally and for the unemployed. Maybe one day we’ll get to fully automated luxury gay space communism but France is not there. Those extra unemployed people are having their talents and productivity wasted by economic mismanagement.

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