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You obviously never been out of your first world bubble. Sure, there are some industries in USA who work very hard. But you got options. You don't get into fin
by alecco 8y ago
You obviously never been out of your first world bubble. Sure, there are some industries in USA who work very hard. But you got options.
You don't get into finance/medicine/tech startups to have an easy work life balance.
In many other industries American workers are considered lazy by Latinos and Asians.
- adrianN 8y agoDon't you think it's reasonable to compare a first world country like the US with another first world country like France or Germany?
- alecco 8y agoAre those Amazon competitors? Europe is highly regulated and unionized within its borders. Realistically think of Mexico, Canada, and China.
- chobeat 8y agoCountries don't compete with companies. What are you even try to say?
- adrianN 8y agoI don't understand your comment. Germany and France don't compete with Amazon, they're countries. Are you saying that Amazon can't exist unless they get to use their workers in ways that wouldn't fly in other first world countries? What's the Mexican Amazon competitor?
- kazen44 8y agothere are some quite good competitors to amazon in many european countries, especially in regards to fullfillment. Amazon in europe also is not the cheapest (by a far margin). Bol.com/Conrad come to mind for instance.
- orbifold 8y agoTo a European lots of parts of the US don’t feel first world at all. Then again I would say the same about some Paris districts.
- bildung 8y agoOf course you always find a country with worse working conditions, but usually those are very poor in comparison. But what insight can you infer from the fact the people in Mexico work more than in the US? Comparing apples to apples, the working conditions/ living conditions in the US are significantly worse than those in most other industrial countries, including working hours, paid vacation, employment protections, maternity/paternity leave, pensions, health care, life expectancy, child care, ... Comparing living quality in relation to GDP per capita, living in the US is a pretty bad deal.
- walshemj 8y agoThat is because those countries have "horrific" working conditions and that is a direct quote from a friend was a former president of UNI a big Global Union Federation. And workers in those countries have been conditioned to these conditions ask any Indian colleagues how workers are treated back home.
- chobeat 8y ago> You don't get into finance/medicine/tech startups to have an easy work life balance. I work in tech and I have a perfect work-life balance, because I live in a country where the working culture cares about this stuff and law enforces it to some degree. I save 50% of my salary while having extremely relaxed working hours (like 3-4 hours of effective work per day). Probably you never been out of your "MUH FREEDOOM" workerist bubble to believe USA is anywhere near the working conditions of Western Countries.
- dang 8y agoNationalistic flamewar will get you banned on HN, regardless of which country you're for or against. Please don't post like this again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 8y ago> You obviously never been out of your first world bubble. Personal swipes are not allowed here. Please edit them out of your posts to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- alecco 8y agoApologies. I can't edit it now.