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How do the people there manage the cognitive dissonance of being extremely inefficient with time and productivity with being a poor country dependent on the EU

How do the people there manage the cognitive dissonance of being extremely inefficient with time and productivity with being a poor country dependent on the EU to keep economy from collapsing?

tluyben2 11y ago
That is a good question. For me it works and for a lot of people it works. But for a country as a whole I don't know. Travelling a lot between Spain, UK, Netherlands, Portugal I must say that for instance a very bad economic country like Portugal has people working like maniacs. And they are going worse than Spain; in the UK the people I meet are punctual but very inefficient with time overall and they do great. Netherlands are super efficient in a lot of ways, so those meetings are the best; usually 5 minutes and done.
- rrss1122 11y ago
  Punctual and inefficient with time sounds like the US too. Must be the shared English heritage.
sdalfakj 11y ago
That's cute and all but > the cognitive dissonance of being extremely inefficient with time and productivity [all the while] with being a poor country dependent on corporate corruption to keep [the] economy from collapsing ftfy
pvaldes 11y ago
Well, they seem to cope surprisingly well with this. The first and sixth place in the best world restaurants in 2015 are from spanish companies for instance. Some of those strange and inefficient creatures make also excelent vines, create superb cheeses, first class olive oil and delicious cold meats, cultivate a big chunk of the fruit and salads that citizens of many central europe countries eat... A few of those are in the list of the world's richest persons, or renowned film directors, actors, opera singers, biochemists, engineers, sport players. Some even launch satellites to the space or work for google. Is a mystery how they did all of this with just a mexican poncho and two sticks.

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How do the people there manage the cognitive dissonance of being extremely inefficient with time and productivity with being a poor country dependent on the EU

by mason240 11y ago

How do the people there manage the cognitive dissonance of being extremely inefficient with time and productivity with being a poor country dependent on the EU to keep economy from collapsing?

tluyben2 11y ago
That is a good question. For me it works and for a lot of people it works. But for a country as a whole I don't know. Travelling a lot between Spain, UK, Netherlands, Portugal I must say that for instance a very bad economic country like Portugal has people working like maniacs. And they are going worse than Spain; in the UK the people I meet are punctual but very inefficient with time overall and they do great. Netherlands are super efficient in a lot of ways, so those meetings are the best; usually 5 minutes and done.
- rrss1122 11y ago
  Punctual and inefficient with time sounds like the US too. Must be the shared English heritage.
sdalfakj 11y ago
That's cute and all but > the cognitive dissonance of being extremely inefficient with time and productivity [all the while] with being a poor country dependent on corporate corruption to keep [the] economy from collapsing ftfy
pvaldes 11y ago
Well, they seem to cope surprisingly well with this. The first and sixth place in the best world restaurants in 2015 are from spanish companies for instance. Some of those strange and inefficient creatures make also excelent vines, create superb cheeses, first class olive oil and delicious cold meats, cultivate a big chunk of the fruit and salads that citizens of many central europe countries eat... A few of those are in the list of the world's richest persons, or renowned film directors, actors, opera singers, biochemists, engineers, sport players. Some even launch satellites to the space or work for google. Is a mystery how they did all of this with just a mexican poncho and two sticks.