7/19/2004 11:25:46 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

Looks like 35 hours (which is considered a second job in many parts of the developed world) may not be enough
 
Only 2 per cent of Bosch's 820 workers refused to amend their contracts to allow themselves to work 36 hours. Jacques Chirac, the French president, and his centre-right government have been struggling to regain control of a corporate trend that is growing in political importance across continental Europe.
 
The insanity of a nationally mandated work hour limit is coming to a head.  In short, the capitalists will no longer stand for it. 
 
It is an affront to freedom for a paternalistic government to limit one's ability to work.  What benefits a man to lounge about on another's labor? There's only so much wine and cheese a man can consume (theoretically). 
 
 You want to get paid, you have to work.  Pretending to be paid and pretending to work can only go so far in a noncommunist system.  France may be many things, but with a straight face I cannot quite call it communist.

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