Not even the obvious failures of the French social model in today’s environment – mass unemployment (reaching 25% among the young), huge public deficits, the blockage of social mobility – have diminished its public prestige. It would be much more logical to take inspiration instead from the Scandinavian model of “flexisecurity,” which combines employment flexibility and social security (albeit at the cost of a tax burden that France would not easily accept).
大规模失业（年轻人失业率高达25％）、公共赤字其高无比、社会阶层僵化不变都表明当今环境中法国社会模式明显地失败了。但是即使如此，并没有降低其在公众心目中至高无上的地位。斯堪迪纳维亚的“灵活加保障”模式结合了就业灵活以及社会保障（尽管其税负代价法国无法轻易接受），从中获得启发是更为具有逻辑。