Morzine works hard in the summer to please tourists: a multi-pass, subsidised with your accommodation, works on the ski lifts, the ice-skating rink and the 50-metre outdoor swimming pool, with more dramatic views along the valley.
They choose to pay less because of a business model that sees the workforce as a cost to be driven down in the pursuit of ever higher profit, often linked to bloated bonuses and share options for a gilded few at the top – and subsidised with billions in publicly funded tax credits.
The school will be subsidised, with the government paying two-thirds of fees and parents covering the remaining third, 3,000 Danish kroner a month (£344).
The tenant will be subsidised with housing benefit – the second biggest welfare programme in the UK, already costing £24bn a year.
Ethanol production from corn is heavily subsidised, with output running at more than 13.5 billion gallons annually.
Private media firms such as Netflix and Amazon could be subsidised with public money originally taken from the BBC's budget to pay for rural broadband, the public broadcaster has claimed.
Harvard's students may pay for their teaching, but the university's research, which Mr Summers urges firms to emulate, is heftily subsidised with public money along with hand-outs from the university's huge endowment.Public support gives most universities a financial stability that companies do not enjoy.
But thanks to the Belt and Road infrastructure project – a revival of the Silk Road route that Mercator had read about in the travelogues of Marco Polo, this time subsidised with billions of dollars by the Chinese government – the port is fast becoming Europe's central logistics hub.
The purchase of E-scooters is subsidised with EUR 250 500.
The scheme is heavily subsidised, with contributions from Oxfam covering running and other excess costs (Poletti et al. 2007).
