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Productivity can be measured for example by GDP per hours worked, and Germany's productivy is very clearly above Spain's. These are facts, which do not demean

Productivity can be measured for example by GDP per hours worked, and Germany's productivy is very clearly above Spain's. These are facts, which do not demean Spanish engineers, so no need to be defensive here. You are just taking one incident and using it to brush over economic facts.

eli_gottlieb 7y ago
> Productivity can be measured for example by GDP per hours worked, and Germany's productivy is very clearly above Spain's. Productivity per hour measures capital investment and labor skill within the same quantity.
narag 7y ago
Economic facts that don't mean what you think they mean. Lack of productivity has nothing to do with individual performance, but with automation, industrial capital, organization and regulation. Spain suffers from an antiquated labour regulation, including perverse incentives. As an example, many companies refrain from growing over certain size because it triggers a nightmare of regulation and expenses. Also there are other barriers... I could write about that for hours, but it's sad and I'm tired.
- allendoerfer 7y ago
  That is why I wrote, those facts don’t mean, that people are better. Germany is just more productive.
pvaldes 7y ago
Reading people repeating again and again the same stupid fairy tales about the lazy southern europeans and the diligent northern europeans is frankly annoying. For example the author says that: > "I don’t think they have siestas in Germany…" A wild siesta cliché suddenly appears. You are really funny. For your information, workers in Spain don't have "siestas" since XIX siecle, we have electricity and cars also. I can understand how for many young europeans the entire experience of Spain can fit in a blurry weekend in Magaluf, a bleeding nose and maybe a broken arm after jumping to a pool, but the country is a little more than that.

eli_gottlieb 7y ago

> Productivity can be measured for example by GDP per hours worked, and Germany's productivy is very clearly above Spain's. Productivity per hour measures capital investment and labor skill within the same quantity.

narag 7y ago

Economic facts that don't mean what you think they mean. Lack of productivity has nothing to do with individual performance, but with automation, industrial capital, organization and regulation. Spain suffers from an antiquated labour regulation, including perverse incentives. As an example, many companies refrain from growing over certain size because it triggers a nightmare of regulation and expenses. Also there are other barriers... I could write about that for hours, but it's sad and I'm tired.

allendoerfer 7y ago
That is why I wrote, those facts don’t mean, that people are better. Germany is just more productive.

pvaldes 7y ago

Reading people repeating again and again the same stupid fairy tales about the lazy southern europeans and the diligent northern europeans is frankly annoying. For example the author says that: > "I don’t think they have siestas in Germany…" A wild siesta cliché suddenly appears. You are really funny. For your information, workers in Spain don't have "siestas" since XIX siecle, we have electricity and cars also. I can understand how for many young europeans the entire experience of Spain can fit in a blurry weekend in Magaluf, a bleeding nose and maybe a broken arm after jumping to a pool, but the country is a little more than that.