Re:France's homegrown open source online office suite
by well_ackshually on Saturday February 07, 2026 @05:19PM
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The subject is not employers, don't get sidetracked. I don't particularly give a shit about employer's costs either.
The initial claim is "82% of wages go to taxes", which is inaccurate, a lie and a bad faith argument.
Re:France's homegrown open source online office suite
by pqtyw on Sunday February 08, 2026 @05:01AM
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> I don't particularly give a shit about employer's costs either
So you don't care about the size of your salary? Fair enough...
It's all the same to them, whether the social insurance contributions are shown on your payslip or not is just an accounting detail. It's still a tax on labour and no different that the share you are paying.
Re:France's homegrown open source online office suite
by well_ackshually on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:02AM
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No, my employer's costs are not part of my salary. The proof of it being that employers have never raised salaries in response to their social contributions going down.
Please stop being so dense.
Re:France's homegrown open source online office suite
by pqtyw on Sunday February 08, 2026 @08:15AM
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I must assume you are trolling at this point... Or lack a very basic understanding of the of finance and economics.
> never raised salaries in response to their social contributions going down.
Clearly fixable with a very simple law since some other countries somehow managed to achieve this.
How is that bad faith? It's basic common sense to count that together. Total cost is what matters to employers. You can't compare different countries either if you don't hacks like this that try to confuse the workers about how much they are paying.
e.g.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Payroll_...
taxes in Denmark are presumably several times higher than in France?