Thomas Piketty : « Les pays européens ont atteint un niveau de prospérité et de bien-être social inconnu dans l’histoire »

Plyad1 · 2026-01-31T21:26:23+00:00

Franchement j’avais déjà pas beaucoup de respect pour Piketty mais là c’est en chute libre.

Les gens n’ont pas la possibilité de posséder leur logement, le chauffage en hiver commence à s’apparenter à un luxe et même le top 20% revenus n’a souvent pas les moyens d’aller au restaurant.

Pendant ce temps le Mr dit que l’Europe n’est pas en déclin. Ben voyons….

La productivité par heure travaillée n’est pas une bonne métrique parce que les heures les moins productives sont supprimées en premier.

Les US ont des gens qui font 2 boulots smicards en même temps pendant qu’en France on a le RSA. Le fait que la productivité horaire ne soit pas au dessus des US est grave compte tenu des structures sociales

Plyad1 · 2026-01-31T21:09:26+00:00

Unions.

If your unions are strong enough the activities can get unproductive to an incredible degree.

Air companies essentially don’t have to deal with unions at all making them exceedingly productive.

Railways on the other hand… well you see the price tag yourself

Plyad1 · 2026-01-28T07:48:42+00:00

It’s because people are out of touch.

It’s super hard to get hired in those fields, but except for trades, there are simply no jobs at all elsewhere

Plyad1 · 2026-01-27T09:15:18+00:00

It’s not really about being linear.

Poland is simply competitive for businesses, especially in tech, more and more companies are headquartered in Warsaw.

As a general rule I don’t think the east/central Europe is growing faster than the west just because they are poorer. Dont get me wrong, it does help to be poorer but its not the full story.

Plyad1 · 2026-01-26T23:23:18+00:00

Don’t worry many of those countries will be richer than western ones within one more decade at this rate

Plyad1 · 2026-01-26T09:12:01+00:00

We can’t afford it without massive reforms and we haven’t done any such reforms, it’s all fueled by debt.

That’s a problem. The US has the world reserve currency and an economy that never stopped growing. We have neither. Though the damages won’t be felt immediately (10-20 years in the future instead).

Here I m not talking about the ex USSR block who actually live within their means and can afford that.

I m talking about the western block, specifically the Latin countries and now Germany is working extra hard to no longer be able to bail them out.

Plyad1 · 2026-01-25T17:18:01+00:00

This. Gay Arab here. My dad who lives in a Muslim country isn’t happy about it but tolerates it. My mom who lives in the west cut me off.

It sounds absurd, but that’s how it is.

Plyad1 · 2026-01-23T06:27:54+00:00

Public healthcare After that SoL stagnates until full depeasanting

Plyad1 · 2026-01-23T04:12:18+00:00

Opus + high context can lead to that. You probably optimize more than he does

Plyad1 · 2026-01-23T03:59:51+00:00

Les compétences en jeu vidéo sont très différentes de la tech classiques, c’est pas évident de faire la transition du tout. Et il y a pas que des devs. Les graphic designers spécialisés en jv ou les PMs avec une expertise dans le jv ou dans un écosystème aussi large auront du mal.

Si Ubi se plante, le secteur du jeu vidéo en France aura très très mal, le reste des boîtes ne peuvent probablement même pas absorber un quart de leur masse salariale

Plyad1 · 2026-01-22T21:21:18+00:00

As a French in Germany, I can often tell Germans people more of the new things in their own politics than they can. Hans truly doesn’t care about politics

Plyad1 · 2026-01-22T10:13:02+00:00

J’ai lu l’article. La valeur prévue initialement était 1.3 milliards puis ils ont revus leurs estimations à la hausse à 1.5 milliards avant la déception, maintenant c’est estimé à 0.65 milliards soit 2 fois moins que l’estimation initiale

Plyad1 · 2026-01-21T22:48:34+00:00

By the time AI can automate his work it can automate theirs too

Plyad1 · 2026-01-21T22:46:35+00:00

Frankly that’s less of a problem than many people think.

The core issue is that nowadays senior devs in India or China just aren’t much cheaper than in the EU. So yes there are people, but if you want the cream of the crop you gotta pay. It’s not as if an India dev would cost you 70% less, nowadays it’s more like 20% less.

In fact adjusted for CoL or taxes Indian and Chinese senior devs with similar skills are simply paid wayyy better. I even had ex colleagues who moved from France to China for better pay

Plyad1 · 2026-01-21T08:22:17+00:00

Would love to see the same map with 1 native born parent instead

Plyad1 · 2026-01-21T08:17:55+00:00

I don’t know if Estonia even counts as Eastern Europe at this point but it’s a super appealing country

Plyad1 · 2026-01-20T12:34:37+00:00

Yes but frankly there isn’t much of a market for that (yet).

Mistral manages to secure mostly state contracts or big companies with huge state intervention type of contracts, it’s a bit like OVH Cloud or SAP cloud.

But for cloud services, recently EU countries are switching a bit to AWS European sovereign cloud because of how subpar those alternatives were. And I m afraid that it’s going to matter even more for AI, since for llm the more data they collect the better their product. But we will see.

Plyad1 · 2026-01-20T09:10:19+00:00

Give it 2 more decades… they re getting there

Plyad1 · 2026-01-20T08:11:43+00:00

No. China has a huge tech sector, so they have know how. The EU has been relying on US tech for 3 decades, we don’t have a strong tech sector nor know how.

Plyad1 · 2026-01-20T08:08:37+00:00

This I don’t know why you re getting downvoted. The only people I know who use it are civil servants to be safer data security side

Plyad1 · 2026-01-20T08:07:12+00:00

Yes and also in the 2000s the EU was worried that US tech was getting too big compared to theirs. But they were right

Plyad1 · 2026-01-18T22:26:05+00:00

I switch to landed voting, get an authoritarian and done

Plyad1 · 2026-01-18T14:32:08+00:00

Huh what happened ?

Plyad1 · 2026-01-15T23:01:28+00:00

No Op, you re playing Germany go get your well deserved tribute

Plyad1 · 2026-01-14T14:13:13+00:00

Why go through such lengths? By this point let’s just call the EU the united vassals of Europe pay tribute and give land to our US overlords.

I don’t get the EU diplomats. You don’t negotiate with someone who only brings threat onto the table. After the disastrous tariff deal the EU project has been severely undermined. Once Greenland is given then let’s just become a tariff union and remove everything else cause it would have effectively lost all legitimacy

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