I agree that society should be structured more like it was in the post-war era - to the end of a better distribution of wealth, but there are always going to be powerful actors with interests contrary to yours, whoever you are, whatever you believe, whether that power is through business, religion, unions, wealth, or international relations. Solving the issue of billionaires cuts off one head, but it doesn't fix human weakness to influence
And we should not forget the Mozilla call for censorship, cyber-bullying and narrative control on big platforms [1]. I'm glad Firefox is dying, the web is safer without extremist actors like this.
Just to balance the article, I'm french, living in Paris, working near Champs Elysées and never heard about tacos. It seems to be very specific to teenagers or ghettos.
And here I am a world traveler at 40 loving French tacos. I guess perspective is everything. Maybe one just has to break out of their protective shell and not be a snob about "lower class" things.
Rent has been insane for a long time relative to median income in practically every major city across the world. I actually don't think that the rent in Paris is any worse than in Boston, and Paris is nicer to live in.
Move back 15 years, replace tacos with kebabs and whoop, it's still the same. A few older dudes who know the right places to go to, and the chef salade-tomates-oignons-chef-ing mostly young people.
Tossing "and from the ghettos" in there just lands him absurdly right in the middle of the shitty parisian that everyone hates.
Which is quite ironic, because to locals the Champs Élysées is known to be a hang-out place for banlieusards, a place where companies have flashy flagship stores, and clueless tourists who do not expect either of those things. If there is a place to have O'Tacos restaurants in Paris, the Champs are far from the worst place.
Hardly a surprise because it's cheap street food for the lower classes as french Kebab is which they are really just a variation of, meat, fries and industrial sweet sauce that is. The Champs are not really the kind of place where those classes live. Ghetto food seems a bit strong though, you can easily find them outside the rich neighborhoods of the West which suggests me you might find instructive to get out of some time.
