The economics of *Le Monde*
It seems the newspaper is going under. Here is one snippet:
In France, firing a printing plant employee is hugely expensive. The gent is paid €50,000 per year, works 32 hours per week and 164 days per year. Firing him costs about €466,000 – that’s a French government estimate…
It is worth reading the article in full, as it makes many other points. For the pointer I thank Sam Bishop.