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Really.... how do you explain the cultural differences in work productivity between south Europe (Greece, Italy, Spain) versus North Europe (Germany, Netherland

by ddalex 4y ago

Really.... how do you explain the cultural differences in work productivity between south Europe (Greece, Italy, Spain) versus North Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland) ?

tokai 4y ago
Protestant work ethic.
- ddalex 4y ago
  What exactly drove the apparition of this work ethic ? or of Protestantism in general ? Go the 5 whys route and you'll end up at the environment.
yunohn 4y ago
You do realise that Italy was previously Rome, and along with Greece, they kickstarted European democracy and governance? And they had (surprise) hot climates?
- ddalex 4y ago
  Do you realise that the fall of the Roman empire (west side) was mainly triggered by climate change? Perhaps the climates 2000 years ago were not as hot as we might think.
  - yunohn 4y ago
    You literally didn’t even try to research this hot take, did you? Climate change is not the same as global warming, though related. TL;DR - Warm weather good, cold weather bad. Plague much worse. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-change-and-disease-helped-fall-rome-180967591/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-ch... > the characteristic warm, wet and stable weather was conducive to economic productivity in an agrarian society > violent sequence of eruptions triggered what is now called the ‘Late Antique Little Ice Age,’ when much colder temperatures endured for at least 150 years. > This phase of climate deterioration had decisive effects in Rome’s unravelling. It was also intimately linked to a catastrophe of even greater moment: the outbreak of the first pandemic of bubonic plague.
  - ztrww 4y ago
    It was warmer actually if we compare e.g. 0 AD to the 19th and early 20th centuries. Climate change you’re talking about resulted in a decrease in temperatures when the “Roman warm period” ended.

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Really.... how do you explain the cultural differences in work productivity between south Europe (Greece, Italy, Spain) versus North Europe (Germany, Netherland

by ddalex 4y ago

Really.... how do you explain the cultural differences in work productivity between south Europe (Greece, Italy, Spain) versus North Europe (Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland) ?

tokai 4y ago
Protestant work ethic.
- ddalex 4y ago
  What exactly drove the apparition of this work ethic ? or of Protestantism in general ? Go the 5 whys route and you'll end up at the environment.
yunohn 4y ago
You do realise that Italy was previously Rome, and along with Greece, they kickstarted European democracy and governance? And they had (surprise) hot climates?
- ddalex 4y ago
  Do you realise that the fall of the Roman empire (west side) was mainly triggered by climate change? Perhaps the climates 2000 years ago were not as hot as we might think.
  - yunohn 4y ago
    You literally didn’t even try to research this hot take, did you? Climate change is not the same as global warming, though related. TL;DR - Warm weather good, cold weather bad. Plague much worse. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-change-and-disease-helped-fall-rome-180967591/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-ch... > the characteristic warm, wet and stable weather was conducive to economic productivity in an agrarian society > violent sequence of eruptions triggered what is now called the ‘Late Antique Little Ice Age,’ when much colder temperatures endured for at least 150 years. > This phase of climate deterioration had decisive effects in Rome’s unravelling. It was also intimately linked to a catastrophe of even greater moment: the outbreak of the first pandemic of bubonic plague.
  - ztrww 4y ago
    It was warmer actually if we compare e.g. 0 AD to the 19th and early 20th centuries. Climate change you’re talking about resulted in a decrease in temperatures when the “Roman warm period” ended.