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Sure, sorry Europe does not have innovations like Twitter and we need to stay with automobile, machine engineering, medical, chemical innovations, built the lar
by Uchikoma 15y ago
Sure, sorry Europe does not have innovations like Twitter and we need to stay with automobile, machine engineering, medical, chemical innovations, built the largest commercial plane and sell more commercial planes than the largest US producer. We suck at innovating.
Concerning the labor laws cited for Germany: The changed labor laws are credited for managing the financial crisis better than other countries (flexible working time accounts, short time working helped companies to keep their talent, power up their production lines much faster and reduce recruiting cost after the crisis was over).
Not wanting to stir up a flamewar, but these articles are pointless.
- mhd 15y agoCouldn't agree more. Not saying that a good article about the differences wouldn't be worth the while, but what I've been reading lately here is just the usual mumbo-jumbo of "Italy has no Twitter" and "Wharbargl, socialism!". Never mind that calling all that technological innovation is a bit of a moot point. Maybe there's a bunch of articles where Germans make fun of US cars in economic magazines, and this are just the well-deserved replies...
- Uchikoma 15y agoAlthough it might be considered "Pro"-European, I think http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_European_Dream http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_European_Dream is a good book on the topic of US and European differences.
- mhd 15y agoConsidering the recent financial difficulties (and heck, the fact that the UK is still not quite in there), I wonder how large the mindshare for a pan-European dream is right now. But thanks for the tip, I'll add it to my reading stack.