On this point, I suspect something: (Some) Europeans work more hours, but less efficiently Go to a supermarket in Germany, see how quick a cashier rings your

On this point, I suspect something: (Some) Europeans work more hours, but less efficiently Go to a supermarket in Germany, see how quick a cashier rings your order. (yes self-checkout does exist) And this is not only a North/South (or West) divide. Germans have their way of wasting "work energy" in some micro-bureaucracies in one way or another (and still they are more efficient than the average worker) Some other southern countries will waste more time doing some things while in some other areas they will be the fastest/least-bs players around. > But Americans definitely love talking about how hard they work; way more than we do. Can't disagree with this.