Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining

[henry_flower]

Смотрите-ка, нахальная рука патернализма, оказывается, может приносить пользу:

Paying €1,365 a month to a smicard [1] costs his or her employer anything between €2,200 and €2,500 due to the highly complex social insurance schemes whose premiums the employer pays on his employees' behalf.

The result is that it is cheaper to go capital-intensive, install automatic checkout counters in supermarkets, automatic ticket controllers at subway stations and giant street-cleaning machines to sweep the streets, rather than employ smicards to do these lowly tasks.

[1]	Those who earn only a minimum wage in France.