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"By the time the promised bonuses are distributed, many businesses will already be dead!"

2020-11-25T02:54:44.651Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - The bonus of 500 euros for small businesses to promote their digitization is useless if nothing is done to avoid massive closures of small businesses, says Denis Jacquet. According to the entrepreneur, between 35 and 40% of them will die at ...


Denis Jacquet is an entrepreneur and economic columnist

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500 euros.

You have read and heard it, the government split, after 8 months of crisis, a bonus of 500 euros intended to digitize small businesses.

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Suppress your smile, this is not a joke surfing on social networks, but a real announcement of the French government, endowed I remind you of a very serious Secretary of State for Digital, of which we did not know the talents of comic trooper.

It must be said that he is supported by an excellent Minister of the Economy, who like most of those who presided over this ministry, apart from Christine Lagarde, have never known the business world.

No preparation in 8 months

From the first confinement, we knew that we condemned the businesses to ruin.

And also SMEs and TPE.

But at the time it was believed that lives could be massively lost.

Quickly we realized that this was the case in eastern France, since this legendary "

confessional

"

meeting

which started hostilities, then in Paris, but we still preferred to put the whole of France under cover.

Precautionary principle, when you hold us… Quickly, we also realized that 70% of French departments had less than 10 patients per 100,000 inhabitants in the hospital.

But total containment, which was beginning to be denounced as ineffective by the WHO, was maintained at the risk of killing the summer season of the entire tourism industry.

Borders still closed, as in the days of the occupation.

And so on.

And yet, during the summer, the police were on the backs of restaurateurs, imposing fines and closures.

For trivial and absurd reasons.

I attended it in St Tropez this summer, a police bus closing in full service, a restaurant, without prior warning, for an increase in decibels… Kafka and Pinochet gathered at the beach.

As Woody Allen recalls, life is a fatal disease, but the Westerner seemed to have forgotten it.

We knew that 20% of restaurateurs would not survive it, now it's 35 or 40%, but saving the patient from Covid seems to be the new political eldorado, each of the 5 countries posting the worst results in the world (France, Italy, Spain , Belgium and United Kingdom) competing in coercive measures to achieve this with the consent of a population terrified of self-realization mortal.

Yet, as Woody Allen recalls, life is a fatal disease, but the Westerner seemed to have forgotten it.

Yet the figures and examples to follow are there

And especially since, INSEE tells us that mortality in France has not changed since 2018, except by 5% for those over 85 years old.

And despite the use of contamination figures to perpetuate fear, we realize that hospitalizations are less important than in March, and that the number of deaths is already falling a little more every day.

And the new confinement has almost nothing to do with it, as we also know, but simply because the virus makes people less and less sick and can be treated perfectly as soon as we have the time and the means to treat it.

In Asia, which should have served as a benchmark, management was and remains almost perfect.

This proved that this disease was contagious but not very fatal (less than 100 deaths in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam), and above all very manageable.

But after a few months, at the dawn of the first deconfinement, we were already announcing a second possible wave or more exactly the natural and logical resumption of the contamination contained by the confinement, we imagined a Government, led by a so-called exceptional IQ, ready to face the rest with talent and organization.

All the networks of entrepreneurs had warned and proposed emergency measures

We have all called for asking the essential question of the under-capitalization of French SMEs, and their incredible backwardness in the digital field.

We therefore expected that urgent measures would be taken to prevent Amazon from becoming the master of French consumption.

But no, we preferred to make bombastic announcements without a future, in the field of the relocation of production to France, in which I had the weakness to participate, for love of this country, rather than worrying about the 2nd episode of "

24H Covid Chrono

".

Since then, the numbers have been linked in an infernal and petrifying spiral.

We thus realize that in 8 months, this government simply did not anticipate or prepare anything.

Today all the studies converge to show that these same 5 countries will be the worst victims of an unparalleled crisis.

The worst of all developed countries in the world.

McKinsey, in particular, in its latest study indicates that France will have a bankruptcy rate twice that of all its European partners.

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The international firm specifies that 21% of French SMEs will have disappeared before March 2021. The majority having between 49 and 249 employees.

A bloodbath in terms of jobs.

Human dramas.

And that doesn't take into account the coming weeks.

The figure could then rise to 25% and maybe more, to bring our unemployment to 15%.

An absolute record.

These figures, the government had them upstream, and yet, it offered us the final coup de grace, the apotheosis: to maintain the opening of large-scale distribution and the closure of small businesses, qualified with the insulting term of "

no. essential

”.

Clearly "

they can die

".

Quite the opposite of Germany, which preferred its small businesses.

We would end up wanting to change nationality.

The bonus stuffing

The € 1,500 bonus is still expected by 70% of the companies that have requested them.

When we spend a little time with the presidents of CCI or regional entrepreneur networks, who have gone to stick their ears to the “

carpet radio

” of the Direccte, which is supposed to deal with cases, we realize that only those whose turnover has fallen by more than 70 to 80%, have sometimes touched it.

In other words, we are talking about a premium intended to pay their death costs!

By the time he touches her, they'll already be dead.

I don't dare talk to you about the € 10,000 bonus, which impresses on the 20H newspaper, which would save small businesses, which bet on the end of the year to recover, and are committed to stocks that will constitute the breeding ground for their liquidation.

On average, more than 100,000 € of stock on their hands, not counting all the rest of the costs and charges, which means that 10,000 € will allow them to take the time to go to court and declare themselves in receivership.

Digitization bonus, mortuary bonus

But the icing on the cake is the digitalization bonus.

According to a government yet endowed with a Secretary of State for Digital, a French business in distress, will be able to digitize by January or February at best, by putting € 500 on the table!

If we can digitize an SME in 3 weeks, doors closed, with € 500, then I play the lottery immediately because the chances are greater of winning the Jackpot and I will propose Cédric 0 as the next person to be sanctified at the Holy See.

Digitization requires a global and proactive policy, massive, which calls for investment in service providers capable of providing the necessary digital services, in a sovereign cloud, in capitalization and pooling.

If it was an individual business at 500 €, there would be no more service providers in the world!

How sad to realize such a filthy knowledge of the meaning of the term "

digitalization

" on the part of our rulers.

They are mainly couples of traders, who bet their whole life and especially their retirement, on the sale of a business

Even with a reopening at the end of November, deprived of customers still confined, our businesses will die.

They are mainly couples of traders, who bet their whole life and especially their retirement, on the sale of a business, which instead will end up in the Commercial Court.

Their voices will be added to the concert of those, desperate, who will offer us a president, from the extremes, in 2022. The price of incompetence will add to our economic despair.

Very sad.

Source: lefigaro

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