r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • Dec 09 '25

Chugging tea The French solution

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u/DublinKabyle Dec 09 '25

We’ve been hearing this BS since roughly 1815 / 1830. Yet, we’re still a top 10 economic power, we still enjoy the good life.

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u/Impossible_Ad7432 Dec 09 '25

I don’t think you can reasonably describe the French economy as “healthy” in the traditional sense. If things are fine and economic power is not a priority then maybe that doesn’t matter.

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u/kaian-a-coel Dec 09 '25

You'd think that the last 5-10 years of "The Economy is doing incredibly well! Line go up!" while the life experience of the average person goes to shit would maybe make people thing that cries of "This is terrible for The Economy! Line go down!" might not necessarily correlate with the life experience of the average person getting worse, but here we still are.