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As good a place as any to remind people German workers have 30 vacation days on average (in addition to 10 public holidays). Somehow the work gets done!
by afterburner 8y ago
As good a place as any to remind people German workers have 30 vacation days on average (in addition to 10 public holidays).
Somehow the work gets done!
- pimeys 8y agoAnd it's quite common to work 40 hours a week, sometimes even less. And get things done...
- rdlecler1 8y agoVery different cultures, education systems, and housing costs. I doubt you could make an isolated change and get the same result.
- maym86 8y agoOf course not but let's start somewhere. Make gradual socitital changes in all the areas needed starting with this bill. Education and housing reform would also be worthwhile.
- dhakker 8y agoYou make a fine argument against isolated and incremental change. I agree. We should aim for nothing less than paradigm shift.
- afterburner 8y agoI believe 35 was standard in France for a while.
- MarkMc 8y agoAnd that Germans work the least out of all OECD countries, working 1288 hours per year vs US citizens 1789 hours and OECD average of 1763 hours. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Average_annual_hours_actually_worked_per_worker https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_time#Average_annual_...
- Loic 8y agoNote that it is because Germany has the highest percent of part-time jobs, especially poor jobs or the mother in a family. The system is built in a way that it is hard to have two real full-time jobs in a family. It works pretty well in the former East Germany but in the former West, the standard is that after 4PM schools etc. are closed. This has improved in the last years, but not to the point to easily have two full time jobs. This my experience from living 5 years in the former East and afterwards moving to the West (already 7 years).
- extralego 8y agoBut the money doesn’t pile as high. That’s the problem. There’s nothing here that Marx didn’t articulate ~150 yrs ago.
- adventured 8y agoWhat does that scenario look like if Germany no longer gets to free ride on the Euro at the expense of Spain, Portugal, Greece, Italy? They get to use an artificially cheap currency (cheap for them) to drive the largest trade imbalances on earth. They're plundering the Eurozone and EU, just look at the trade surplus they have in their own economic region ($180b trade surplus just with the EU alone). Were they using their own currency, their exports would suffer immensely. How long can that destabilizing arrangement continue? Not much longer, judging by several of their fellow Eurozone nations. Even with all of that, their median household net worth is still lower than the US.
- pjc50 8y agoWhat do the internal US trade balances between e.g. California and the rest look like?
- toast_coder 8y agoCalifornia exports to the the rest of us mostly. Lots of food, high end manufacturing, services, and they have a huge slice of the asia-us trade logistics.
- pjc50 8y agoSo ... why does nobody care about trade deficits in the dollarzone? Why isn't this seen as "plundering"?
- WillPostForFood 8y agoLargely shared debt burden via the federal govt?
- toast_coder 8y agoExactly.
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