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I guess the engagement bait "please contradict the headline"-title is working well, I always want to keep editorialising to a minimum when sharing videos like this, but this was one of those "what they meant could have been made a little bit clearer, and they knew it"-things.
Really the stuff he is talking about concerning that - mainly initial cost vs long term savings and lack of existing infrastructure/expertise - are just realities that are important to address in the political process. He could have gone into more detail considering Munich's attempt at Linux (LiMux) - where to my knowledge the reason it failed was a combination of lobbying by Microsoft, Conservatives (CSU) winning the local elections, and costs (as well as employee complaints) from having processes be more complicated, the latter mostly thanks to Microsoft's outright obstructionism concerning document format standards, as well as expertise being relatively costly (whereas finding MS-certified anyones in the office space was relatively easy). Those are considerations to have, but I think more and more, the advantages of Linux and Open Source clearly outweigh that stuff in the face of rising costs and enshittification, and he does talk about all the good stuff pretty well in the video.
indeed, the anti-limux stuff was a sort of microsoft marketing campain in disguise.
microsoft lobbied munich to abandon linux after they adopted it while abandoning windows, and also put in great effort to paint the narrative that it was due to linux being bad. they successfully pointed to things that didn't work with linux, masking that the reason these things didn't work were not due to linux but due to not updating or other administrative problems not related to the operating system.
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The previous attempts were about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly,
This attempt is about freeing themselves from an abusive unprincipled data-hungry big data monopoly operating in a fascist country and in cahoots with the regime.
People are downvoting you, but they're too scared to actually argue against it. I'm obviously hoping this isn't the case, but you'd be sticking your head in the sand if you said there was no chance of it happening.
We're already seeing a massive surge of the far right in Europe. Giant media blitzes on social media such as Twitter shoving far right content in their faces.
While the former seems to be the obvious trend and Europe has historically leaned towards it. I don’t see how one results in the other. Whether they stick with Microsoft or not is more economical than political.
[Some*] Europeans just can’t get over their Arab and Muslim-hate despite neither Qatar nor Saudi Arabia posing any threat to Europe and actually being good trading partners. No tariffs, no restrictions, no unfair competition. They adopt many European standards and are a huge market for European goods and services. Yet still the hate is constantly being peddled.
* hopefully a minority but the hate seems to be universal regardless of the political leaning.
Are they democracies? No. Do they respect human rights? Also no.
I don't care as much about them as I care about pointing out the hypocrisy of my people. I have a thing against islam but that has nothing to do with this conversation.
You must have forgotten about why people were so mad at qatar in particular a while back. Remember how many workers died building the stadiums there for the world cup? If you're american i can understand you weren't aware of it since european football isn't exactly popular in america, but it was a huge deal over here with people protesting.
Hell, I'm in Silicon Valley here in California, and some of my friends are also jumping off the proprietary ship because those large firms are willing to work hand in hand with federal agencies.
If you've read the NSA document disclosures by Edward Snowden, it's apparent that there is an open door for data requests. The current administration isn't a huge fan of California's diversity, so we might as well minimize our chances of being targetted...
That might not be so much down to how serious people are but rather just how good Linux has gotten lately (especially for games). Although I do think people are more serious now.
In any complex system or "wicked problem" involving positive and negative feedback cycles, a combination of factors that push into the same direction can cause the system to flip over - sometimes in dramatic ways.
Life long windows user. I switched to Arch a few months ago and I'm not looking back. Will only be using windows in a sandboxed VM if absolutely necessary. Which, I haven't needed to yet.
Installing Arch might be a hassle, I tried it once and couldn’t figure it out so a kept on using Ubuntu and its derivatives. But when I got a Steam Deck I found Steam OS to be easy and the Arch documentation to be thorough and useful.
They didn't just give them a discount, and it was only a very small part of Europe you are talking about. It was Munich, and MS also moved a lot of workplaces to the city, to bribe it...
In the video, he talks about examples of European governments specifically switching to Linux, like a police station using an Ubuntu based distro, and foss software like LibreOffice. I don't think android, Mac or BSD are mentioned.
What's wrong with going back to pen and (e-)paper for office? My point is, if you are going to post something in the community, the word "linux" shall at least be in the title.
Good title example: Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft for Linux
It's nobody's fucking business when someone ditching Microsoft, then adopt BSD, Solaris whatnot. What matters to this community is someone adopting or ditching Linux, or they do something remotely related to it.
Point is (again), it takes zero effort to cross post a video or article here. Windows is historically having a high market share ratio, and people are migrating to Linux nowadays. That's good news to the Linux world. Even someone merely mentioning ditching Windows has an implication of adopting Linux instead.
But what if more and more posts implying this by only mentioning how bad Windows is? Is this a community for Windows circlejerk, or do we share informative stuff that's directly related to Linux? How about we share more article about how great Linux is (or can be), instead of how bad the competitors are becoming?
The European Union regulates the market so much it's hard to call it capitalism, the biggest european companies are basically EU projects like Airbus (every government funds it) or too big too fail like Siemens and/or they would use: "strategic industry" and be done with it.
Edit oh and I almost forgot it, or they are like Inditex, basically not European it's just an European getting rich while exploiting poor people all around the world, but I think this is actually capitalism and that guy isn't exactly appreciated by ruling dictator, I mean party, in Spain.
Actually, most of them already do have deals for a limited time. Skype is still available; they needed a new contract since teams does not work without communicating with Microsoft.
OTOH most things they do is via webclient.
If Microsoft was to release a mandatory update that has a single thing that required it to communicate with the organization, by law the whole governmental EU would not be able to use it.
The German state of Bavaria once did something in the direction of moving away from MS. When Microsoft put their German headquarters into Munich the idea was scraped.
And at the same time we have the Jugendmedienstaatsvertrag in Germany (and with Germany as a strong force in the EU most likely everywhere in the EU soon) that will make all operating systems without fully integrated age restrictions illegal heise.de/en/news/Minors-protec…
Manufacturers of operating systems must then ensure that "only apps that correspond to the age specification or that have been individually and securely activated can be used". The installation of programs should only be possible via distribution platforms such as app stores that take the age rating into account and have an automated rating system recognized by the Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media (KJM).
This part of the law alone is impossible to implement on a open platform like Linux.
According to the revised Interstate Treaty on the Protection of Minors in the Media, operating systems must soon ensure they include a "youth protection device".
To make something illegal by law it is needed to have a valid reason for that law to exist. This is the case at least in every jurisdiction that has a somewhat functional separation of powers.
Due to this can't just make it illegal to use Linux, but with a Law like the Jugendmedienstaatsvertrag it comes as a free bonus.
Ok, but how to prevent programs installed as Appimage, by source compilation or just downloaded binaries from running? You need a way to prevent this methods of installation to be legal
Microsoft already has the S-Mode in Windows 11 that only allows to execute apps that come from the Microsoft Store. So it is already possible in Windows.
The law doesn't say that the option has to be active for everyone and all the time, but it has to be fully integrated into the OS so it can be activated fast and easy when children/teenagers want to use the PC.
Since it is impossible to implement on Linux, it may just be flagged as adult-only software.
This would render Linux unfit for use in Schools, Public Libraries, Youth Centers and other places where Children and Teenagers have access to PCs.
It is, in addition to that, possible that internal regulation of government offices prohibit the use of adult software. Not sure about it, but it would IMHO fit the mindset of bureaucrats
Hopefully this helps increase adoption. Maybe in a few years GNU+Linux will have 10% of the desktop operating systems market. Maybe even Wine won’t be necessary anymore except for legacy software.
I think that if Linux is to be more widely adopted a more easily used distro needs to become mainstream. Let's face it, the average computer user barely knows how to use Windows, just because you find Linux easy doesn't mean they will.
Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?
Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?
Yes. Set automatic package updates, Install firefox with ublock and put it on the taskbar, and bookmark Facebook and Youtube for her. It is the same thing as under Windows.
I would argue that for the most "tech illiterate" users the Linux experience can be made even easier than the windows experience, because you have to set up everything for them anyways.
Completely "tech illiterate" broser-only users are fine. It gets difficult once they happen to actually want to do something.
I have an older relative in that boat, and she was doing fine until she wanted to install some VPN to access foreign Netflix libraries. That was more difficult. Especially because she already paid for the service and that service didn't support her distro, thus there was no guide on how to use it.
Both of my grandmothers are dead, but I did teach my aunt to use Linux. She had a laptop that "ran" Windows 10. It would take 30 seconds to open the Start menu. One SSD, one RAM upgrade and one install of Mint later it's a whole new machine. She can Firefox and Mahjongg just fine.
Teaching people without computing skills to use linux is actually easier than teaching windows. Most trouble people have with linux comes from being used to windows and having difficulty to adapt.
Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?
My 50+ yo mother uses Linux Mint daily with fewer problems that when she used Windows. Her crowning achievement in IT is learning how to use email.
I helped my 93 yo friend switch from Windows 10 to Linux 2 years ago. He called me 3 times in the first 2 weeks to ask how to do something, but hasn't had a single problem since that's related to the OS.
Linux Mint, Bazzite, Fedora, and several other Linux distros are already easier to use than Windows. The only thing holding most people back is fear of change.
There are some people who have specific setups in Windows or a large number of "Windows only" apps, but these people are in the minority. The average person can't even tell you which operating system they're currently using, and wouldn't notice the difference if you swapped the OS but kept the same web browser.
Actually, my mother knew how to use Debian before she could use Windows. Her first pc came with Windows XP, switched that for Debian as its been my main OS since 2000.
We already have those. Arguably Windows is much more of a hassle to use than your average "works out of the box" distro. And don't start talking about the terminal, that's comparing apples and organges. A more apt comparison to the need of using the terminal on Linux is the need to apply registry tweaks or use powershell on Windows. As if "average users" would need to do that. They install software via the "app store", change settings via the GUI and run updates when prompted, all of which are seamless on most of these distros. If something breaks, they can't fix it themselves, but then they just go to someone else to help them, just like on Windows, which they also can't fix by themselves. Maybe they manage to reinstall, which isn't any harder than on Windows, if not easier these days.
The group you're actually talking about (and likely belong to) are the Windows power-users that would need to rethink things, and would be capable of rethinking things, if they wanted, which they don't. I know some of these people myself, complaining all day about Microsoft and the privacy nightmare that they put in huge effort to mitigate, but sadly they absolutely need to rely on this one "critical" piece of freeware from the 2000s that they are sure won't run on wine (not that they've tried) or a cracked copy of Photoshop they use for cropping and changing the brightness of desktop backgrounds, but it's the industry leader, so they obviously won't use "inferior" software for that, face the facts Linux users. They think package managers are much harder than downloading and clicking through Setup.exe for the 100th time in a row, and they've had this one bad experience with "rm -rf /" 10 years ago which is why they don't "trust" the terminal, yet routinely double-click on downloaded .bat files without thought. 🤷
Thank you for the article. It brought up something quite interesting that i wasn't aware off before:
But why does Spain rely so heavily on Russia despite the almost global disapproval? The answer lies in this country’s extensive regasification capacity, which stands at 67.1 bcm - the largest in all of Europe. This enables Spain to receive LNG shipments on behalf of other countries that lack the necessary infrastructure, making it a critical hub for European energy trade.
So it seems that Spain is also taking the flak here for other EU countries that want to profit from Russian gas but not be directly associated with it.
How Spain Uses Natural Gas Europe is one of the most important markets in terms of natural gas and is home to some of the largest consumers of the fuel in the world.
Any bit of user base growth helps get the ball rolling for future MS/USA missteps. Linux has just been getting better and easier year after year. It's been a 30 year marathon ready for another 30+ years of development
The same stuff over 200% increase in 2023 so others can say we dont buy stuff to Russia we buy it to Spain (who bought it to Russia). This source even points out the liquid gas that arrived by boat from Russia wasn't sanctioned.
As we say in Spain "hecha la ley, hecha la trampa"
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A change regarding Peertube federation with Lemmy certainly does appear to be coming in Lemmy 1.0 ^[1]^, but it's currently unknown to me if it does actually fix the issue.
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I think we are looking in the wrong direction. China is the place to watch for an explosive growth of Linux and the exclusion of M$-Mossad. They have committed to replacing Windoze on all government computers and servers with KylinOS by 2026. This is not a city here and a city there, but the entire country. PC and Laptop makers will then offer units with openKylinOS. Not sure if phones will follow suit, or switch to Harmony Next.
Attacking the source instead of disproving the article.
You have hands, you can sources of your favorite side of the political spectrum, or ask an LLM.
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La UE redujo sus importaciones de gas natural licuado (GNL) en 2024 en un 19% y, dentro de ella, España fue uno de los países donde más cayeron un 28%, aunque...
It looks like the problem are the contracts. They could go faster breaking the contracts? Yes. But it's Naturgy and Repsol, both private, not the government. Or are you suggesting that the government has to do a take over of the energy enterprises? 😉
La Comisión Europea cree que la normativa para prohibir las importaciones de gas ruso servirá de paraguas legal ante los procedimientos de arbitraje que da por hecho que Moscú planteará dado que los contratos establecen una cláusula por la que las co…
First you doubt the claim. Then you attack the source, now you find excuses.
Did they or didn't they increase almost 200% the acquisition of energy from Russia in 2023? Is the Russian Federation a major provider of gas and oil for Spain (and other European countries) or not?
If you notice I am here only to point the hypocrisy of Europe, which they undoubtedly are and Spain is no different.
I don't know if you work for a company with business in Russia, I did when this whole thing started and contracts didn't matter much when sanctions came but I guess we weren't big enough to make excuses.
You gave your sources and I gave you mine. And sadly I'm not working.
About the hypocrisy of the Union and the Spanish government, I know both have a truckload of it. But to each its own. The main problem are Naturgy and Repsol. And yes, the Spanish government should grow some balls and tell them to stop at once. But there aren't balls enough in this government to do the right thing.
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After the politicization of the courts, made obvious by several years of potato judicial results, pleading the fifth is just something you do; because the star chamber will find something, if it deigns to do so, and you can't sue for cruel and unusual until after you suffer it.
I don't think most people see that has happened and accordingly can't process the consequences.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that China is ready to work with other countries in building a global network for dialogue and cooperation among civilizations.
Hey Xi, you really think any other civilization exists beyond the monstrosity of western industrial capitalism? Look all around you, unless you climb the high hills of China, all you see is western industrial capitalist disaster.
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Concerning LiMux - and take this as anecdotal hearsay stories - but, to my knowledge, the reason it failed was a combination of lobbying by Microsoft, Conservatives (CSU) winning the local elections, and costs (as well as employee complaints) from having processes be more complicated, the latter mostly thanks to Microsoft’s outright obstructionism concerning document format standards, as well as expertise being relatively costly (whereas finding MS-certified anyones in the office space was relatively easy). Those are considerations to have, but I think more and more, the advantages of Linux and Open Source clearly outweigh that stuff in the face of rising costs and enshittification.
open-source, slowly but surely, wins in the end! It's not an opinion: it's a fact. The only problem is, the normies are too scared to experiment with anything related to computers. We have been too comfortable with being convenient, that we dont take risks for the greater good. It's time people realised this and start taking back the power which was taken away from them...
I'm really happy that the EU is moving further and further away from the US, they have ALWAYS been an unreliable and aggressive partner. My hope is that after the current administration over there ends they won't forget that the problem was never Trump, it's the unfathomable grip of the United States on all the world. Haven't watched you in a while, good to see you're still at it.
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Statements made by Benjamin Netanyahu in 2011 shed surprising light on his policy toward Iran. It could be that revisionist Zionists see themselves as protectors of the West.
🇵🇸Gaza : un camp de concentration pour enfermer toute la population
Le ministre de la Défense israélienne a annoncé qu’il avait ordonné à l’armée de préparer un plan visant à transférer tous les Palestiniens de #Gaza dans un camp de concentration dans la ville détruite de #Rafah.
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Qui veut gagner des milliards ? En finir avec les niches fiscales injustes
Alors que le gouvernement prépare des coupes budgétaires sans précédent, Attac et l’Observatoire de la justice fiscale publient une note qui dénonce le coût des niches fiscales profitant aux plus riches et aux grandes entreprises.
Nous proposons une revue de ces dispositifs et des réformes ciblées permettant de récupérer jusqu’à 19 milliards d’euros pour financer les réponses aux crises sociales et écologiques. L’austérité n’est pas une fatalité : un autre budget est possible et nécessaire !
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At the same time, the #UK has added nonviolent anti-genocide activism group #PalestineAction to its list of banned terrorist organizations for opposing the #Gaza holocaust.
At the same time, the Israeli prime minister who is carrying out that holocaust has nominated the American president who is helping him perpetrate genocidal atrocities for a Nobel Peace Prize.
At the same time, Israel has continued its ban on foreign journalists entering Gaza, while also arresting the Israeli journalist who helped expose the #IDF officials who cooked up fake atrocity propaganda about burnt babies on# October7.
At the same time, the #Trump administration has enraged its MAGA base by concluding that Jeffrey #Epstein had no client list for any kind of sexual blackmail operation and definitely committed suicide.
The western empire is one nonstop insult to our intelligence. The peace advocates are terrorists, the genocide architects deserve peace prizes, the journalists are dangerous, and Epstein was just a wealthy socialite who made a few mistakes.
They do everything they can to make us stupid via #propaganda, Silicon Valley information control, and indoctrination schooling systems, and then they treat us like we’re morons for the rest of our lives.
The empire depends on ignorance. The more stupid, racist, gullible, and easily distracted we become, the nastier agendas the empire can roll out. Now here we are watching a live-streamed genocide unfold right in front of our eyes for nearly two years while being tube fed a daily diet of the most ridiculous lies imaginable.
As Aaron Bushnell said, this is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.
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Die Woche fing doch ganz normal an – und nun das: der israelische Ministerpräsident Netanyahu fährt nach Washington und schlägt Präsident Trump für den Friedensnobelpreis vor. Ein vom Internationalen Gerichtshof (IGH) gesuchter Kriegsverbrecher schlägt einen anderen – der, nach einem Gutachten des wissenschaftlichen Dienstes des Bundestages, einen völkerrechtswidrigen Angriff gegen den Iran geflogen hat – für den Friedensnobelpreis vor.
Nebenbei terrorisiert und tötet der eine von Beiden die Bewohner der Westbank und des Gazastreifen, während der andere hart arbeitende Menschen aus ihren Häusern oder direkt bei der Arbeit bei Walmart, im Straßenbau oder von den Feldern holen lässt, um sie in menschenunwürdige Gefängniss in Mittelamerika einsperren zu lassen.
Alles was uns dazu einfällt ist die Erinnerung an das Buch 1984 von George Orwell und die bittere Wahrheit "Big Brother is watching you". Das Wahrheitsministerium schreibt mit der neu entwickelten Sprache Neusprech die Geschichte. Und sie schreibt sie tagtäglich um, je nachdem Den Ereignissen den aktuellen Ereignissen.
Wir können diesen Zynismus der beiden Egomanen nur mit einem weiteren Vorschlag auf die Spitze treiben. Schließlich hat ja auch der US Präsident Obama den Friedensnobelpreis bekommen, obwohl er durch seine Unterschrift unter die tagtäglichen Drohnentötungen auch – je nach Zählung – 5-7 Menschen pro Tag in seiner Amtszeit auf dem Gewissen hat.
Soll der nächsten Nobelpreis doch an die Präsidentin der EU Kommission Ursula von der Leyen gehen, die bereits konkrete Kriegspläne mit einem festen Datum äußert: "Der vollumfängliche Krieg wird 20230 neue Realität" und dazu wird Europa - sie meint natürlich nur die EU - in den nächsten vier Jahren 650 Milliarden Euro an "Verteidigungsinvestitionen" mobilisieren - und mit diesem "Sondervermögen" meint sie natürlich nur Schulden für uns, unsere Kinder und Enkel. Neusprech lässt grüßen.
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Introduction
-Pourquoi les États-Unis et Israël veulent détruire l'Iran ?
-Quel est le bilan de la guerre de 12 jours ?
-Une conséquence de la chute d'Al-Assad ?
-Pourquoi Israël a attaqué maintenant ?
-Nucléaire iranien : fausses négociations ?
-Trump c'est la paix ? (“souverainistes” de droite)
-Un revers pour Washington et Tel Aviv ?
-Conséquences régionales et mondiales
-Pourquoi l'UE n'a pas condamné l'agression d'Israël contre l'Iran ?
-Trump, les États-Unis et l'OTAN veulent la guerre
"La classe moyenne voit son pouvoir d’achat stagner, ses enfants s’exiler, ses repères vaciller"
Par La Fonderie du Réel
« La Fonderie du Réel », collectif de dirigeants, de hauts fonctionnaires et de professionnels venus du terrain, dénonce dans cette tribune le mépris croissant envers la classe moyenne, symbole d’une méritocratie et d’une justice sociale en déclin. Dans une France frappée par la désindustrialisation, la promesse, longuement bâtie depuis 1789, d’une démocratie à la fois politique et économique, semble trahie. Ils appellent à une revitalisation de la classe moyenne.
Ils n’ont pas compris. La classe moyenne est en train de décrocher, et l’élite regarde ailleurs. Pourtant, depuis quarante ans, nous avons laissé se fissurer ce qui faisait le socle de notre pacte républicain : une promesse d’égalité des chances, la stabilité d’un État protecteur, la reconnaissance du travail comme vecteur d’émancipation. Cette promesse, c’était celle d’une démocratie politique et économique, patiemment construite depuis 1789. Aujourd’hui, elle est trahie. Le déclassement ne frappe pas uniquement les plus précaires : il ronge les familles qui font tourner le pays. Employés, fonctionnaires, petits entrepreneurs, professions intermédiaires… Tous ceux que l’on appelle par facilité la « classe moyenne » voient leur pouvoir d’achat stagner, leurs enfants s’exiler, leurs repères vaciller.
Le mépris des élites ou le sacrifice de la classe moyenne/
Et face à cela ? Le silence ou pire : le mépris. Comme si cette souffrance n’avait pas droit de cité dans le débat public. Une enquête nationale menée sur les Cahiers de doléances du Grand débat (2018-2019), récemment analysée par le CNRS, révèle pourtant une parole puissante, structurée, lucide : les citoyens ne réclament pas des aides, mais de la considération ; pas des promesses, mais de l’équité ; pas des slogans, mais des actes.
Ils dénoncent l’effondrement des services publics, l’abandon des territoires, l’injustice fiscale. Ils formulent des propositions concrètes, réclament une meilleure répartition des ressources, une démocratie plus proche, une école plus juste. Cette parole est ignorée. Les témoignages que nous avons recueillis dans plusieurs régions françaises disent la même chose : une vie qui se tend, des métiers qui ne permettent plus de se loger, de se soigner, des enfants qui partent, un sentiment d’inutilité sociale. L’angoisse de tomber, même en travaillant. « On n’est pas pauvres, mais on n’a plus de marge », résume Sabine, cadre dans le secteur public, mère de deux enfants. « Moi je vois ma vie comme une stagnation », confie Dominique, enseignante dans une ville moyenne. La peur n’est plus celle du chômage, mais celle du déclassement, mais aussi de l’invisibilité. Car il ne s’agit pas seulement d’une crise matérielle.
Comme le montre Pierre Rosanvallon dans Les Épreuves de la vie : Comprendre autrement les Français (Seuil), il s’agit d’un manque de respect. Ce que demandent les classes moyennes, c’est d’être vues, entendues, considérées. De ne pas être réduites à des statistiques ou à une « variable d’ajustement » électorale. Or, tout dans le système actuel – de la technostructure parisienne aux grandes métropoles – les tient à l’écart. Christopher Lasch dans La révolte des élites : et la trahison de la démocratie (Flammarion), avait prévenu : une société où les dirigeants vivent en vase clos, sans plus de lien avec la majorité, finit par se disloquer. Nous y sommes. Les élites, dont tous ceux qui écrivent ou lisent ces lignes font partie, n’ont pas trahi par cynisme, mais par paresse : fortes de leur réussite individuelle, elles ont abandonné leur responsabilité collective. Elles pensent que leur réussite personnelle est justifiée par leur mérite propre et que si les autres ne réussissent pas, c’est qu’ils ne le méritent pas.
La France, l’un des pays développés où le travail paie le moins
Elles ont pensé que l’ascenseur social continuerait de monter tout seul. Qu’il suffisait d’invoquer la start-up nation pour apaiser les angoisses d’un peuple désorienté. Pire encore : elles ont cessé de croire au rôle de l’État comme acteur de justice et d’égalité. Elles ont abandonné les politiques industrielles, laissées en jachère l’éducation et la santé, fait de la décentralisation le seul axe de l’aménagement du territoire. Résultat : une perte de souveraineté économique, une fuite des compétences, une dégradation du système de soin, une explosion des fractures territoriales. Les usines partent ailleurs, les hôpitaux ferment, les jeunes s’exilent, les infrastructures se dégradent, et l’on s’étonne de la colère.
De plus, et comme l’a récemment souligné Antoine Foucher dans Sortir du travail qui ne paie plus : Compromis pour une société du travail au XIIe siècle (Éditions de l’Aube), la France est devenue l’un des pays développés où le travail paie le moins – surtout pour les classes moyennes. Non pas parce que les salaires seraient anormalement bas, mais parce que l’addition des prélèvements sociaux, des seuils fiscaux et de la dégressivité des aides finit par neutraliser tout gain réel d’effort. Pour ces familles qui ne bénéficient ni des dispositifs sociaux les plus généreux ni des revenus les plus élevés, chaque promotion, chaque heure supplémentaire ou chaque prise de risque professionnel peut se traduire par une perte nette. Il n’est pas rare qu’un couple avec enfants, gagnant entre 2 500 et 4 000 euros par mois, voie ses prestations baisser plus vite que ses revenus n’augmentent.
La classe moyenne travaille, paie, mais ne progresse plus. Elle s’épuise dans un système qui lui fait payer pour les autres sans jamais lui tendre la main. L’ascenseur social grince, l’effort n’est plus récompensé, et le contrat implicite sur lequel repose la démocratie sociale – celui qui dit que le travail assure un avenir meilleur – est en train de se rompre.
Rebâtir une classe moyenne solide
Alors que faire ? Il est temps de reconstruire un projet collectif, de réaffirmer le rôle et l’autorité de l’État là, et uniquement là, où ils font sens et de relancer une vraie mobilité sociale. Il s’agit de rebâtir une classe moyenne solide en redonnant de la marge de manœuvre à ceux qui travaillent dur, mais n’arrivent plus à vivre décemment de leur salaire. Bien sûr, si l’on veut redonner confiance aux classes moyennes et redresser le pays, il faut aller au-delà des incantations sociales et proposer un véritable cap productif. Ce cap passe par une stratégie résolue de réindustrialisation, d’efficacité dans l’éducation et la santé, de réinvestissement des territoires, adossée à la révolution technologique en cours. La croissance ne renaîtra pas du passé.
Il faut investir dans le capital humain et la technologie pour créer les conditions de la croissance de demain. La digitalisation, l’intelligence artificielle, la robotique ou l’ingénierie quantique ne sont pas des lubies d’ingénieurs : elles seront au cœur de la création de valeur, des gains de productivité et de la souveraineté économique. Il faut une alliance entre innovation, production, services publics et enracinement local. Cela suppose d’investir massivement dans les secteurs stratégiques : énergies décarbonées, semi-conducteurs, biotechnologies, technologies industrielles avancées, mais aussi dans les infrastructures numériques nécessaires à l’émergence de champions technologiques locaux. C’est ce cap que la France et l’Europe doivent assumer pour sortir de la stagnation et redonner de l’élan à la démocratie sociale.
L’Europe doit construire son propre modèle productif, durable et compétitif. L’industrie de demain ne sera pas concentrée dans des zones denses, mais distribuée, flexible, ancrée localement. Elle doit s’appuyer sur des bassins de vie, des compétences existantes, des lycées professionnels, des plateformes technologiques régionales. C’est aussi en investissant dans les écosystèmes territoriaux que l’on redonnera de l’emploi, du sens, et de la fierté aux populations aujourd’hui déclassées.
Ce n’est pas le passé qu’il faut restaurer, mais la promesse républicaine qu’il faut tenir. Celle d’un pays où chacun, quel que soit son lieu de naissance ou sa profession, peut espérer un avenir meilleur. Le pacte n’est pas rompu, mais il est fragile. Il est temps de le réparer. Nous sommes comme les gens que décrit Christopher Clarck dans Les somnambules : Été 1914 : comment l'Europe a marché vers la guerre (Flammarion) : des somnambules. Il faut faire vite.
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in reply to berber • • •I guess the engagement bait "please contradict the headline"-title is working well, I always want to keep editorialising to a minimum when sharing videos like this, but this was one of those "what they meant could have been made a little bit clearer, and they knew it"-things.
Really the stuff he is talking about concerning that - mainly initial cost vs long term savings and lack of existing infrastructure/expertise - are just realities that are important to address in the political process. He could have gone into more detail considering Munich's attempt at Linux (LiMux) - where to my knowledge the reason it failed was a combination of lobbying by Microsoft, Conservatives (CSU) winning the local elections, and costs (as well as employee complaints) from having processes be more complicated, the latter mostly thanks to Microsoft's outright obstructionism concerning document format standards, as well as expertise being relatively costly (whereas finding MS-certified anyones in the office space was relatively easy). Those are considerations to have, but I think more and more, the advantages of Linux and Open Source clearly outweigh that stuff in the face of rising costs and enshittification, and he does talk about all the good stuff pretty well in the video.
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berber
in reply to AbnormalHumanBeing • • •indeed, the anti-limux stuff was a sort of microsoft marketing campain in disguise.
microsoft lobbied munich to abandon linux after they adopted it while abandoning windows, and also put in great effort to paint the narrative that it was due to linux being bad. they successfully pointed to things that didn't work with linux, masking that the reason these things didn't work were not due to linux but due to not updating or other administrative problems not related to the operating system.
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in reply to berber • • •I'm gonna say if the OS of a public administration can run while not being updated that's the OS's fault and not fit for purpose.
Nothing keeping you from changing that if you manage the distro. But still.
Now that I'm done with my popcorn, I thought the video was fairly even handed.
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Unknown parent • • •The Youtube version will give you a transcript.
Monkey's paw curling at its finest.