We had a revolution here back in 74 it was bouncing towards a sort of communism. One day I got hold on the resumes of a bankrupted factory from such time, it was a time when all meetings were attended by workers as "working commissions" to govern the factory. It was pure non-sense what was going on: the production engineer said it would be best to produce some sort of wood that France was interested on, but a guy that was cutting boards at the back of the factory said it would be better to produce something else; the factory voted with this last guy.
The problem isn't if the skilled will vote or not, the problem is that they will be overruled by unskilled. Got the difference?
I got the problem but could give you opposite examples. There is a library that went bankrupt in my city, called "les volcans". The workers actually decided to buy it back for the 1€ symbolic price and managed to make it back on its feet. Now it's the biggest library in the city and you can get whatever you want from here.
Overall, studies showed that collective intelligence is more efficient than individual skill in most situations. It's untrue in very technical subject but on more general decisions it's the case.
Though I would be interested in studies you might object me.
And if your population isn't able to take the right decision, then at least it should suffer the consequences of its own choices. And please tell me how the people could screw it more than our current governments xD
About the French public service:
- Here -
at the winning side of Euro 2016 
- sending your tax report over the internet is possible since 2004, no longer accepted on paper form since 2011 and now is even automatic, you don't need to fill anything, unless you want or have other income to declare...
Sorry I don't follow football :3
But it seems we're late yeah, but 6 years late isn't "middle aged" man, it's just a bit late ^^
Yes, an ATM stands for "Automatic Teller Machine" or a "machine that gives money in the streets". Just for an example, Le Louvre is at the center of Paris, right? Which is the capital of France, so a big city... I was looking for an ATM, from there I'd to go over the river, walk across several small roads for nearly 2km to find one.
Lol! I mean here you're just unlucky or really not good at finding things xD
I live in France and never had any problem with ATMs, you're just taking a very specific example and generalizing it :3
(and maybe you're the one a bit blind because I don't think there is a circle of 2km without an ATM in Paris ^^)
Then to take care of something with the public services it all have to go through someone, who is always in Monday mood and took a dozen of lemons for breakfast, and isn't because I'm foreigner, they don't seam any different with natives.
That's very different, that's linked with the status of people working for the state, status which is a bit outdated I give you that.
Paris in particular look like had a good infrastructure, at the 70's or 80's, now looks old. And love those plates saying something like "Road under repair, we're sorry for the inconvenience - We must finish before August 2010"... seeing these at 2016, and the working still going on, really warms you up, doesn't it?
I understand that France is a bit big so things may take some more time, but yes, from the countries I'd to deal with is one of the most outdated. Spain is pretty much as big, but way more up-to-date.
Well seems you had a general bad impression ^^
Though I'd have to say it's difficult to counter argument you because... Well because it's just an impression you had. You're not pointing out specific problems so hard to give you any figure.
Anyway I think France is also a bit late in lots of things. Contrary to other countries we've always worked by steps. We don't evolve and then BOOM REVOLUTION BITCH and we go ahead of our times by 30 years at least. But last revolution was some time ago. Might be just the right moment for a new one... I hope.
