I think chat nailed it.
You can look at small parts of different economies and one country might be “better” and one thing over a smaller period of time
But overall the US economy is greatest economy in the world. And there isn’t a close second
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Medieval Peasants had more days off than a modern worker
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Too many Nigger victims to follow the Nordic model
Were medieval peasants better off in their lives than modern workers as a whole? Honest answer please
Sure but let’s not act like modern middle class ppl have these lives of leisure. American workers work more than the ppl in most countries around the world and more than most ppl in history
Why would you think that’s a good thing?
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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-average-working-hours-by-country/
Interesting graph.
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Because America is more productive than any other country
Production as kn make things that are cutting edge and innovative and efficient.
How do you think that happens?
No one likes to work. But If you want a safe country / a strong military / a huge healthcare fund and social security.
You have to work for it
Spoken like an American that has never travelled or seen how other people in less developed countries actually live. You do know that people in 3rd world Countries essentially are scraping by everyday just to survive. The idea of a day off or a holiday is a concept that they wouldn’t even know.
Their poverty starts at birth, and many don’t even know the innocence of childhood. So spare me the “woe is the American middle class with their phones and air conditioning”. Get out more and understand that the usa isn’t the entire world
It’s a shame China isn’t on it - that would have been interesting to see. Some people there work like dogs, but a lot of the people I knew were able to pursue lives of greater leisure than I could here in the U.K. They weren’t rich at all, but travel within China is cheap, eating out is cheap, buying stuff is cheap, and so on, so they didn’t actually need a lot of money to achieve the lifestyle they wanted. I haven’t been there for about 15 years now, so perhaps that’s changed, but not that I’ve heard from my friends there.
Seeing Germany at the bottom reminds me about the question of productivity. I’m not sure how it’s measured as a metric, but there are occasionally news pieces here about trying to make our economy or workforce as productive as Germany’s. In a services-driven economy such as ours I doubt it’s as easy to determine as in a manufacturing economy, for example. There have been experiments in which a company works one day fewer per week and productivity increases - in fairness there have also been experiments where it decreases.
There’s a good book called Drive, by Daniel Pink or Pinker or something like that, that includes some interesting bits on how performance at tasks given different forms of motivation differs, and sometimes not in obvious ways.
Yes. China’s 996 work culture. This is something that they do to “distinguish” themselves from the other workers.
Those who do this will move up.
Whether they do or not isn’t important but when there’s billions of others you are fighting with to move up. You do anything to achieve it.
Something foreign to Western cultures
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There’s also a daft level of competition for university places. I was never a teacher, but I was nevertheless asked for help with studying by a lot of people there, and the questions they’re expected to be able to answer are ridiculous. The trouble is that once they graduate they’ve basically made it, and motivation goes off a cliff for a lot of them.
I grew up in Panama and have traveled to over 30 countries. The ppl in Panama worked WAY less than Americans. Europeans also work less than Americans.
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A lot of Americans that have never traveled have a cartoonish idea of what it’s like in other countries. lol at sending kids into the mines to work being normal in anywhere but the shittiest African country
They don’t understand how far our standard of living has fallen and how much the rest of the world has gone up.
I’d just like the same standard of living as my parents or grandparents
I’ve supported a family of 4 on my income for years on end.
5 would be doable as well.
“muh starving youths in China”
Also the tariffs are bullshit. He sells it like other countries are paying tariffs. They are not paying Unites Stares businesses are paying and they will past those costs to us.