I believe overall French workers (on average) work the lowest number of hours per year, due to shorter work days and longer vacations relative to workers in the industrialized world. If my memory is correct, they also get paid considerably more per year based upon their actually work time. I consider this a GOOD thing, BTW.
There may indeed be less variability in pay scale from the wealthiest to the poorest, as well, which I also think is a GOOD thing. The US (which is supposed to be a "classless" society), has some of the greatest disparity between workers salaries. France also has some of the best child oriented social programming in the industrialized world (another GOOD thing). For being the wealthiest country, the US is still below many for child mortality rates, average life span, literacy, the medically uninsured and other values normally considered important in an enlightened society. They do, however, lead the world for percentage of their population in prison. It isn't all about cheap film processing. ;-) Art Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Roger writes: > > >>I did not know that, in spite of being an >>european myself... >> > > Many Europeans do not know that they are making far too little money for the > work they do and are paying far too much for goods and services. That in > itself is not surprising. The weird thing is that, of those who _do_ know, > most think it is just fine; they seem to equate a decent standard of living > with evil, or something. In any case, their (voluntary) loss is the United > States' gain. > > >>... here in Spain I am paying 3.00 Euro >>per E-6 (or C-41) 120 processing (2 hours). >> > > Is this a pro lab, or a so-called consumer lab? > > I haven't found any non-pro labs that develop 120 here in Paris, although > there might be some, somewhere. I certainly wouldn't mind getting it > developed for ¤3 a pop. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
