Sure, higher quality of life at the expense of those who actually earn the money. But personally it would be depressing to see the lack of motivation and low achievement in those around me. If you look forward to those things, you can enjoy them in France right now. 🙂
Not sure what your point is, in a recent article by the Economist *Ireland* was named the country with the highest quality of life. France and the US (ranked 13th) didn’t even make the top ten. All but one of which, I might add, are European.
1 Ireland
2 Switzerland
3 Norway
4 Luxembourg
5 Sweden
6 Australia
7 Iceland
8 Italy
9 Denmark
10 Spain
None of the countries above exactly have a reputation of being slackers, either. Except those damn, dirty Danes, of course! 😉
On that note, I would really, *really* like to see some statistics regarding how hard folks of the various income classes work. Other than the idle super-rich and unemployed super-poor, I’ll suspect its pretty similar across the board.
