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Is the labor shortages as bad elsewhere in the world? Plenty of places with great social safety nets, not just now but all the time. Treating the vast majority

Is the labor shortages as bad elsewhere in the world? Plenty of places with great social safety nets, not just now but all the time. Treating the vast majority of people as wage slaves seems particularly American.

adventured 5y ago
> Treating the vast majority of people as wage slaves seems particularly American. The vast majority of people (75%?). Fascinating claim. I bet you can't support it. Americans earn higher wages at the median than: Canadians, Germans, Swedes, French, British, Spanish, Italians, Russians, Japanese, Chinese, South Koreans, and so on. Americans are also richer at the median than either the Germans or the Swedes (which should be impossible if you buy in to the propaganda). And that's despite the massive demographic shift at the median in the US over the past 40 years (comparing demographics to demographics, Americans are far richer than either of those two nations). So, why are Germany's workers so poor? Why are Sweden's workers so poor? Why have incomes stagnated so horribly over 20 years across most of Europe (as with their economic growth which has been mostly net flat since ~2007)? Treating people as wage slaves must be a particularly European thing.
- sys_64738 5y ago
  Americans work longer hours per week and get less holidays. A typical European 37 hour work week and 3 additional weeks vacation adds up to about two months more work by US workers than Europeans. So it's not really that they're paid more in the USA, it's that US workers get less vacation and longer hours.
  - refurb 5y ago
    Nah, US workers are generally paid more even accounting for the 2-3 weeks vacation that skilled laborers get.
- dv_dt 5y ago
  Americans also live shorter lifespans while going bankrupt for things like medical debt while enjoying less vacations and well, living than Europeans.

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Is the labor shortages as bad elsewhere in the world? Plenty of places with great social safety nets, not just now but all the time. Treating the vast majority

by presentation 5y ago

adventured 5y ago
> Treating the vast majority of people as wage slaves seems particularly American. The vast majority of people (75%?). Fascinating claim. I bet you can't support it. Americans earn higher wages at the median than: Canadians, Germans, Swedes, French, British, Spanish, Italians, Russians, Japanese, Chinese, South Koreans, and so on. Americans are also richer at the median than either the Germans or the Swedes (which should be impossible if you buy in to the propaganda). And that's despite the massive demographic shift at the median in the US over the past 40 years (comparing demographics to demographics, Americans are far richer than either of those two nations). So, why are Germany's workers so poor? Why are Sweden's workers so poor? Why have incomes stagnated so horribly over 20 years across most of Europe (as with their economic growth which has been mostly net flat since ~2007)? Treating people as wage slaves must be a particularly European thing.
- sys_64738 5y ago
  Americans work longer hours per week and get less holidays. A typical European 37 hour work week and 3 additional weeks vacation adds up to about two months more work by US workers than Europeans. So it's not really that they're paid more in the USA, it's that US workers get less vacation and longer hours.
  - refurb 5y ago
    Nah, US workers are generally paid more even accounting for the 2-3 weeks vacation that skilled laborers get.
- dv_dt 5y ago
  Americans also live shorter lifespans while going bankrupt for things like medical debt while enjoying less vacations and well, living than Europeans.