OPINION: France's Lobster scandal leaves a very bad taste over rich elite

Redistribution by the French state does at least still keep the country’s income inequality below the OECD average. Nevertheless, the OECD economists Laurence Boone and Antoine Goujard warn that social mobility has stalled in the country. They say it would take more than six generations before somebody at the low end of the revenue scale reached the average in France. Only Hungary scores worse. Inequality of opportunity and an education system in dire need of reform are the real failures that explain the furor around “lobster-gate.”

Source: Iol.co.za

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Freedom of speech • French Third Republic • Lobster • Taste (sociology) • Wealth • Elite • Nation state • Economic inequality • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development • Social mobility • France • Hungary • Economic inequality • Education • Lobster •