Quote: (08-14-2016 08:39 AM)Cobra Wrote:
The reason people in America enjoy the standard of living they do is because everyone works and work hours are higher. Reducing them across the board is a careless idea because it will affect productivity significantly where it's needed and affect it marginally where it's not needed.
The reason people in America enjoy the standard of living they do has nothing to do with long working hours. These are the real reasons:
1)America won the WW2
2)America won the cold war
3)American dollar is the reserve currency
4)America has the strongest military in the world and can enforce beneficial trade agreements
5)America has the fed and is the only country that can print out money out of nothing.
6)America aggressively exports it's culture worldwide trough Holywood and McDonalds.
As for longer working hours - try telling that bullshit to Swiss, Norwegians, Swedes, Dutch and Germans - all those countries have a higher standard of living with less work, the only things bad in these countries is feminism and Muslim immigration.
Also Sales is not a real job. It's business. A miner, plumber, electrician, teacher, nurse or factory worker who doesn't get a percentage from his job and only has a fixed salary has a different attitude towards work than you. But their work is more needed then yours.