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Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. | | French term or phrase: le pays s’alimente en matière salariale | I intend to use up my question allowance today!:
Talking about government's attempts to manipulate the consumer price index by freezing prices of the items used to calculate the index, and the uproar it caused:
Une manifestation de cet état d’esprit fut « l’exposition des 213 articles » organisée à Paris en mars 1956 par les Chambres d’agriculture aux fins de ridiculiser l’indice [...] Une affiche reproduisait le texte suivant: "Cette exposition permet l’étalage dans toute sa substance nocive d’un non-sens national dans lequel le pays s’alimente en matière salariale. Le grotesque prétentieux y est en concurrence directe avec l’indigence psychologique et intellectuelle. |
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| | the absurdies fuelling national pay/wage (control) policy | Explanation:
A bit of a risk, translation wise - using "non-sens" as absurd. It is based on the desire of controlling pay (and by implication pay increases) by manipulating the price index - as the trigger for wage increases - through freezing the prices of its constituent parts.
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