Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds

Post by ionised » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 2:35 PM UTC

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I'm not entirely certain that a nation as a whole being a superpower is good for the people if the people living in it are miserable. "The economy" is not, in fact, a direct measure of how happy people are - it's an indicator which may have something to do with it in a broad sense, but can be gamed, especially once you get down to attempting to maximise arbitrary single numbers (GDP, stock market indicators, etc).

I really don't think the US as a whole is "miserable". Anyone living in this country certainly can not complain about how they lucked out. Sure it has its problems, but we don't have to worry about wars on our soil, widespread famine, warlords, human rights violations, etc. Are there better quality of life countries? Debatable. But there is a reason people are still trying to get into the country to make a better lif…

Post by AnimalMuppet » Thu, Oct 20, 2016, 3:57 PM UTC

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> Is it a coincidence that both countries have the most rich in the world... It is not true that both countries have the most rich in the world[sic]. Russia was never a rich country like the US - not before Communism, not during, and not after. It could create a good facade and a strong military, but that's not the same thing...

I believe he meant rich individuals, billionaires, oligarchs.

Post by massysett » Fri, Oct 21, 2016, 12:22 AM UTC

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not really, once you have kids in picture its a whole different math. also the whole buying vs renting thing. to drive the seriousness of this home, Elizabeth warren did a study back when she was a prof & found that for every 10 point deviation from median in school performance house prices went up by 20 points.

Yeah the amount of influence you have is very minimal, especially when you consider changing jobs, are you supposed to move each time you do? I think that is an often claimed adage (like the whole trickle down effect one) that is much less true in reality.