Very decent of Charles Smyth to order Gorz. I am not so decent. I've read enough of Reisman to reinforce my view that laissez-faire capitalism is power-centric, ahistorical and promotes a barbarism shrouded in the ideology of individual freedom for the capitalist and mystifyingly to a lack of freedom, in the name of freedom, for the non-capitalist.

As suggested, I have placed an order for the André Gorz title, recommended by Lodziak, so as to gain further insight into contempoary counter-capitalism philosophy. Lodziak may wish to reciprocate by reading: Capitalism, A Treatise on Economics by Prof. George Reisman.

French labour is suffering from the consequences of its demands, as executed via their wilful misuse of democracy. The massive disparity in executive compensation, in comparison to the average which French labour enjoys, is simply the outcome of replacing what would be more rational under capitalism, with a very limited and politically acceptable alternative, as described by the likes of William and Kenneth Hopper (The Puritan Gift) and Peter F. Drucker (The Practice of Management). This is not limited to France, but persists in Germany, the UK and the US, etc., all of which, unlike Scandinavia, do not have a population more in proportion to the value of their productive capability.