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"No, the self-employed have not become assisted"

2020-12-06T01:16:07.396Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - Guillaume Meurice's column in the Siné Mensuel newspaper is full of resentment towards small independent traders, Eric Verhaeghe analyzes. According to the former ENA student, not renting out your work force to an employer is both an object of desire ...


Éric Verhaeghe is the founder of Tripalio, a start-up on union life.

A former student of ENA, he has held positions in the business world and assumed various joint mandates.

He was notably administrator of social security.

He is the author of

Do not help you and the State will help you

(Éditions du Rocher, 2016).

Guillaume Meurice, columnist for France Inter, delivers a bitter post in

Siné Mensuel

, where he criticizes the self-employed for claiming compensation for the closures of establishments imposed by the government.

This request would show that, fundamentally, self-employed workers have a mentality of assisted living.

A perfect example of the resentment that some tax-financed employees can harbor for those who choose to work freely.

Here's why you have to love Meurice instead of hating him.

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Guillaume Meurice's

very “

Aunt Danielle

” post in

Siné Mensuel

has aroused a great deal of exasperation among those who, for years, have been fighting against the galloping bureaucracy and fiscal oppression to continue to live on their own work.

To be frank, I find this acrimonious reaction to a secondary text quite disproportionate.

Despise Guillaume Meurice, if you will!

But don't stoop to giving him back his resentful hatred!

You deserve, free spirits, better than this abasement to impotence ...

Guillaume Meurice or resentment

It is first necessary to understand what wood is the fire of the echotier financed by the taxpayer.

Guillaume Meurice belongs to that class of people called “

bobos

”, for whom to live on his own work, not to rent his labor power to an employer, is both an object of desire and repulsion.

It is an object of desire, because freedom smells of drunkenness and joy.

The self-employed person does not report daily to an employer who gives him orders.

He is the wolf who refuses the dog collar, as La Fontaine had so well sketched.

And that is such a pleasurable privilege that it makes men of resentment like Guillaume Meurice dream.

The thought of Guillaume Meurice vis-à-vis the craftsman is that of the graduate who resents the holder of a CAP, a professional bac that he despises, to live better than him, and with more dignity than him.

But if freedom has no price, it has a cost, and that is why it arouses the repulsion of well-meaning public service columnists.

Being self-employed means giving up a monthly payslip and the guarantee of employment.

It is to risk.

And accept the psychological burden of risk, a man of resentment like Guillaume Meurice does not necessarily feel capable of it.

This is why he throws up this dream which he feels unable to fulfill.

The thought of Guillaume Meurice vis-à-vis the craftsman is that of the graduate who is angry with the holder of a CAP, a professional bac that he despises, to live better than him, and more with dignity than him.

And on this point, we must read in a clear and transparent way the jealousy of the plumitif vis-à-vis a baker, a small neighborhood bookseller, a provincial hatter: they have a second home, they have a heritage, they have employees.

Everything that makes the piss-copy envy, but which he did not dare to risk having, because it is easier, more reassuring to hire his labor power than to keep the property.

His acrimonious post perfectly illustrates the resentment, described by Nietzsche, Scheler and Girard, that the powerless harbor for those who have dared.

Let's reward Guillaume Meurice instead of denigrating him

Instead of hating Guillaume Meurice, I suggest that we weave him a laurel wreath and award him the prize for the best man of resentment for 2020. Because it takes a certain courage to unveil with such clarity and frankness the baseness of the feelings that drive you.

It takes a real dose of self-denial to cry out to the world about your own powerlessness, your own bad faith and the petty envy that you feed towards those who dare to live freely.

On this point, we would like to thank Guillaume Meurice for putting things into words and simplifying the work of all those who seek to “

debunk

” the traps of the newspeak bobo.

Thanks to him, we read in black and white that the welfare state should only benefit employees, and especially not the self-employed.

Even if the self-employed are bled dry by the contributions and taxes they pay to collective social protection and to the State.

Basically, for a Meurice, it is normal that the local bookseller is obliged to leave 75% of his annual income to national solidarity without ever benefiting from it.

Because the solidarity of the sores is to receive without ever giving, without ever giving back, and it is punishing those who refuse to submit.

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The brulôt de Meurice is liberating. He bluntly admits that state "

protection

" is really punishment and a strategy of social control. Basically, Meurice wrote us a very beautiful chronicle of the ordinary hatred of the stashed for the heroes, and a very beautiful demonstration on the toxic and normalizing role of the Welfare State. Thank you, Guillaume, for this moment.

Source: lefigaro

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