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EDITORIAL. The words of the elected ecologist on the right to laziness furiously evoke the attitude of the nobility of the Ancien Régime towards work.
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By Sebastien LeFol
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OWe would willingly subscribe to the defense of the right to laziness by the Green MP Sandrine Rousseau. The elected Parisian, permanently on the grill, is right to emphasize the need to “taking breaks in life”of “find time”.
But the criticism of work by this left oozes too much contempt. We find in his mouth the same disdain that the French nobility displayed for labor in general and mercantile activities in particular.
Under the Ancien Régime, it was forbidden to engage in commerce under penalty of losing one’s “privileges of nobility”: derogation was a degradation. For the left today, to work means to fall. Those who lower themselves to it are not worth tripette. They chose servitude, indulging in vile activities.
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