Might be; though - having worked in Germany as well as in the US - it seems like the work ethics of the German workers as well as their productivity resulting from those are hardly ever reached in the US workplaces I've encountered.
While Germany is getting more and more "americanized" (creative destruction of the health insurance system, drastic cut back of most social services, cutting back on sick leave and vacation), it is also another country whose supreme court early on established the status of "juristical personhood" for corporations.
As far as turning a language into an imperial tool for military and commercial conquest... I believe that the German effort under the label of "Reich of a 1000 years" lasted only a considerably shorter period of time.
As far as the Finn from Sweden is concerned, for all that I know, he's working in the US... luckily not for Microsoft, though.
It seems to be as bad, if not even worse, when looking at certain lizards. Annecdotally, only about 30 pairs of bearded dragons where brought out of Australia before their government banned their export. Thus, all the bearded dragons currently available in the trade descend back to a relatively small gene pool. It's even worse, when considering how much in-breeding must have happened to "create" morphs like the sandfire, or several of the albino types.
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Sean's thesis may not be accessible, but other works based on it are:i _econ_ geog.pdf
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Might be; though - having worked in Germany as well as in the US - it seems like the work ethics of the German workers as well as their productivity resulting from those are hardly ever reached in the US workplaces I've encountered.
While Germany is getting more and more "americanized" (creative destruction of the health insurance system, drastic cut back of most social services, cutting back on sick leave and vacation), it is also another country whose supreme court early on established the status of "juristical personhood" for corporations. As far as turning a language into an imperial tool for military and commercial conquest ... I believe that the German effort under the label of "Reich of a 1000 years" lasted only a considerably shorter period of time.
As far as the Finn from Sweden is concerned, for all that I know, he's working in the US ... luckily not for Microsoft, though.
It seems to be as bad, if not even worse, when looking at certain lizards. Annecdotally, only about 30 pairs of bearded dragons where brought out of Australia before their government banned their export. Thus, all the bearded dragons currently available in the trade descend back to a relatively small gene pool. It's even worse, when considering how much in-breeding must have happened to "create" morphs like the sandfire, or several of the albino types.