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Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds (bloomberg.com)
Americans are addicted to their jobs. U.S. workers not only put in more hours than workers do almost anywhere else. They're also increasingly retiring later and taking fewer vacation days, reports Bloomberg. From the article: A new study tries to measure precisely how much more Americans work than Europeans do overall. The answer: The average person in Europe works 19 percent less than the average person in the U.S. That's about 258 fewer hours per year, or about an hour less each weekday. Another way to look at it: U.S. workers put in almost 25 percent more hours than Europeans. Hours worked vary a lot by country, according to the unpublished working paper by economists Alexander Bick of Arizona State University, Bettina Bruggemann of McMaster University in Ontario, and Nicola Fuchs-Schundeln of Goethe University Frankfurt. Swiss work habits are most similar to Americans', while Italians are the least likely to be at work, putting in 29 percent fewer hours per year than Americans do.
Where is the Silicon Valley of Europe? What has replaced Google, Facebook, and (dare I say it) Slashdot in Europe?
Where is the innovation that is far outstripping American workers?
Prove to me why you think an average European produce more than an average American, against all studies and measures of the subject and "I am your man!"
Aren't you forgetting that the US is the primary danger to peace in most countries to begin with? Or that the countries 'protected' by the US pay protection money in the form of very unfavourable trade deals, constant meddling and having to deal with the mess the US creates around the globe by propping up dictatorships and giving terrorists funding and weapons?