Re:France needs to read my paper
by any_throw777 on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:29AM
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Agreed. I was in France recently, and it's hard to overstate how much raw disagreement there is between the people there. You think left vs right is bad in the US, you haven't tried 4 or 5 different microshifted pov on either side, all completely in opposition with anything but their own candidate.
People there talk about needing a new constitution. Elections won't fix France, and neither will economic policy. The problem is fragmentation.
Just watch tomorrow.
I too once presumed that those people knew better than me and others. I can not stress how wrong I was.
I was so often flabbergasted at the incompetence and ignorance of those "in the know" that I now believe that their positions have nothing to do with being the best at what they do.
Some of it is Hanlon's razor read forward, but the rest is Hanlon's razor read backwards. Either way, it's terrifying for someone like me who doesn't think themselves as particularly intelligent.
As a country, I host a somewhat large and educated group of humans. Some of them are economists like you. They most certainly have heard about georgism before.
The current issue is not so much that they don’t have enough ideas, but that they can’t agree on which ones to apply.
Sincerely, France.