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Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:41 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:41 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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More power to you, bro. I am simply arguing that Americans, more so than other occidental people, have an affinity to work. If you disagree, that's fine.
No, you went a step further and implied our lack of vacation time is a conscious desire on the part of Americans to WANT to work more. You also invoked "incentives" to explain this fact, apparently entirely unaware that if we incentivized working less via govt mandate American employees would immediately lose their--as you suppose--inherent predisposition towards hard work.
There is nothing ab being American that makes one work harder. Citizenship does not confer a Herculean work ethic. Americans work harder bc of the system we've set up, and if you emigrated to Finland tmrw your children would have a work ethic similar to the natives. There is plenty of scientifically backed evidence showing that working extreme hours isn't worth the social cost, and it makes for less productive and less happy workers. We should strive to change it.
BTW, America's status as the premier economy has everything to do with out abundant natural resources, our ocean borders, and our population size, not some romantic notion of out ability to outwork our neighbors.
Posted on 8/28/14 at 1:28 am to CHSgc
quote:You assume we don't have the power to, yet we do, and we don't change it.
We should strive to change it.
quote:Natural resources in and of themselves do not symbolize wealth. Wealth is the result of transforming raw material into an object of value. For example, if one uses 10 dollars of wood to build a 15 dollar chair, wealth has been created. You can have as many resources as you want, but if you don't have an economy that allows for free people to put those resources to good use, the resources are all for naught.
, America's status as the premier economy has everything to do with out abundant natural resources, our ocean borders, and our population size, not some romantic notion of out ability to outwork our neighbors.
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