It would serve the French right if every single man, woman or child with an ounce of creativity and/or any entrepreneurial ambition at all, just got up and left. Of course, the idea of a bunch of Frenchmen going all "Galt's Gulch" is a bit amusing, but hey...
And yet they don't. It's as if perhaps there is some value to the people, culture, and values of France that justifies the cost of doing business there rather than in the fetid, lawless gulches of objectivist fantasy.
Or perhaps when one lives in the country of their friends and family, one needs to be pushed quite far by the state before abandoning the people they love in order to keep majority of what they earn.
It's a bit soon to say that, eh? This law just passed. And, as the other commentator says, connections to friends and family also weigh into the decision. And since people are not actually totally rational, utility-maximizing, spock-like agents, sometimes they choose things based on those "soft" factors. Which is totally fine.
But if the State pushes far enough, and hard enough, people will eventually lash out and strike back in one form or another. I think the historical record shows that quite clearly. No "objectivist fantasy" (whatever that is) needed.
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It would serve the French right if every single man, woman or child with an ounce of creativity and/or any entrepreneurial ambition at all, just got up and left. Of course, the idea of a bunch of Frenchmen going all "Galt's Gulch" is a bit amusing, but hey...
And yet they don't. It's as if perhaps there is some value to the people, culture, and values of France that justifies the cost of doing business there rather than in the fetid, lawless gulches of objectivist fantasy.
Or perhaps when one lives in the country of their friends and family, one needs to be pushed quite far by the state before abandoning the people they love in order to keep majority of what they earn.
It's a bit soon to say that, eh? This law just passed. And, as the other commentator says, connections to friends and family also weigh into the decision. And since people are not actually totally rational, utility-maximizing, spock-like agents, sometimes they choose things based on those "soft" factors. Which is totally fine.
But if the State pushes far enough, and hard enough, people will eventually lash out and strike back in one form or another. I think the historical record shows that quite clearly. No "objectivist fantasy" (whatever that is) needed.