It's said that if monkeys hack long enough on a typewriter, than they will inexorably end up writing something that makes sense.
Let's see if this is also true for scientists...



Thursday, 21 October 2010

Periodicity in French strikes?

Yep, the French strike against the gouvernement's plan to increase the minnimum retirement age from 60 to 62 (!!)
Even A-level students strike against it. As if they cared…
A 57-year old American colleague here told me that he would never work in France, because he would not accept that he has to stop working at 65 …
Another colleagues' father (65) intended to stop working now, but since their home had a costly flooding problem to be repaired, he will be working a couple of years more to pay it off. In France he would have to retire.

A recent book review article in SCIENCE talked about the suggestion that economical crises are caused by people's mood in a periodic manner, as opposed to economics shaping peoples' moods.
Is there a periodicity in French strikes?

No comments: