[extropy-chat] Jack's right, he's not ready for reality

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On 11/20/05, Olga Bourlin <fauxever at sprynet.com> wrote:

> > ### Minimum wages and labor laws. Illegitimate and destructive.
>
> Yeah, Rafal, why not go back to the days of the free lunch, as in "let them
> eat cake"?
>
### Well, actually, pre-Revolution France had an elaborate system of
labor laws, designed (just as today's laws in France) to suppress the
outsiders, and to benefit the incumbent. Why do you think the Arabs
are rioting in France now, not far from where the good queen's blood
was spilled on the pavement two hundred years ago?

Not because they are Muslim, no, it's because the French state has
never learned the lessons, and it still uses illegitimate and
destructive minimum wage laws to suppress competition from outsiders.

A pity that the Chiracs and other bureaucrats are unlikely to share her fate.

Rafal