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66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work

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Re: 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work

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Post by tommek4077 »

quonn wrote: post #130
tommek4077 wrote: post #75

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BS.

Some sources: 35.000-45.000 for the Bachelor alone. https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/geld-versicherunge... (Verbraucherzentrale, semi-public consumer protection agency) 10.000 per year: https://m.faz.net/aktuell/finanzen/meine-finanzen/frag-den-m... (one of the top quality newspapers in Germany) 36.000 und 75.000 per child: https://www.sparkasse.de/pk/ratgeber/bildung/studium/studien... (Sparkasse, pretty mu…

You are mixing live costs with tution costs. That way even jobs are costing you money. So it stays: BS

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Post by orwin »

pleoxy wrote: post #263
orwin wrote: post #148

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We not only have a better life expectancy (6years for men?), we also have a better 'good health' expectancy. Economic growth is stagnant because energy production and energy import are stagnant. This has little to do with policy. It's 2011 all over again, when we heard all sort of 'southern Europeans are lazy/corrupt' and other shit. I even bought it like a good child. No. Southern Europeans economies used to depend…

> Economic growth is stagnant because energy production and energy import are stagnant. This has little to do with policy. I can't think of an area of the economy anywhere that is more policy based than energy.

Electricity is 50% of the energy France use. That is policy-based, maybe. hydro is maxed out, we can't install more renewable because producers in Asia are at capacity. The only part we really control is nuclear power. So 30% of French energy depends on policy.

Area more depending on policy: construction, food production, Healthcare, education, military.

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Post by mrkeen »

veave wrote: post #168
rpadovani wrote: post #56

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I count 10 European companies on this list, and 20 US. Maybe is not as bad as you think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...

I only count 6. Switzerland and the UK are not part of the EU. (The article is about the EU, not Europe)

> The article is about the EU, not Europe

The thread you're commenting in is about whether workers can still do good things even if they get breaks, not whether they're currently a member state.

A cursory googling says that Swiss workers get 4 weeks and UK workers get 5.6.

Re: 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work

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Post by rpadovani »

quonn wrote: post #308
rpadovani wrote: post #196

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Beginning 2013, there is the semester tickets for students, which is twenty euros per month. Before that, 70 euros? Where were you living, Freising? Two external rings were around 50 euros at the time, and many students rent inside the (old) 4 inner rings, or the first external one if you study in Garching

Munich. And TUM is at Garching. And I paid 70. I know what I paid. It was 70 every month, year after year.

I believe you paid 70 euros. I just wanted to highlight that, beginning 2013, that's not a problem anymore thanks to the semesterticket.

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Post by pandaman »

Mordisquitos wrote: post #114
lionkor wrote: post #4

> While the average American is lucky to get 11 vacation days WHAT? Does that count sick days as well, or is that a myth? Here in Germany, I get 30 vacation days per calendar year, plus any sick days, and thats fairly normal. Edit: Sure the absolute salaries here are lower, but the cost of living is vastly different and the social support structures and healthcare are different, too. That should definitely be kept in…

Also, I'm amazed at the very idea of having a specific number of available sick days which I understand is the standard in the US. How on Earth is that something that is expected to be planned and accounted for by the employee? How can one "run out of" sick days? How do I see stories about US workers "donating" their unused sick leave days to a colleague with cancer or other long illness? I'm too lazy to look up the…

"Sick days" means the company will pay you for that number of days missed being ill, if you are ill for longer then you will have to make a claim against your short term disability insurance and long term disability after that. So it's kinda like Spain except you get paid for the first 1-3 days (namely the "sick days" from your company) and then get paid in full eventually cutting down to 60% by the insurance.

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Post by dang »

bitcharmer wrote: post #307
dang wrote: post #306

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You posted nationalistic flamebait several times in this thread. That's not ok, regardless of which country you have a problem with. Please don't post like this to HN again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Of course not. Note the word "regardless" above.

Re: 66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work

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Post by sn9 »

Longhanks wrote: post #286
auselen wrote: post #281

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it helps with everything when there are lots of safety nets in society…

That’s just offloading the responsibility to the public / to the government.

Do you go through life without insurance?

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Post by danaris »

Longhanks wrote: post #286
auselen wrote: post #281

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it helps with everything when there are lots of safety nets in society…

That’s just offloading the responsibility to the public / to the government.

Yes; that's what we call "civilized society".

Humans take care of each other. It's what makes us strong.

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Post by jdthedisciple »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #320
jdthedisciple wrote: post #237

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I'm sure it's comfortable and works for most people. To me there is just a difference between comfortable and great . > What is there to do except 'wage-slave' like this? We're just born here and make the best of it. :) To put it concisely: Becoming independent and doing what you truely want to do without having to worry about opportunity cost, monetary compensation, or societal repercussions for "wrongthink".

> Becoming independent and doing what you truely want to do without having to worry about opportunity cost, monetary compensation, or societal repercussions for "wrongthink". Ironic considering there's very few paths to FIRE in the US (work in tech, be born rich). Whereas the average person in the EU has a safety net that "independent" people in the US have to slave for.

And it is precisely said safety net that holds you back. Yes you are safe, just kind of like a sheep or cow can be safe. You are not free.

Few paths to FIRE in the US? Well definitely still more than in the EU.

The primary reason people aren't all going FIRE in the US is stupidity. Seriously, how can some people make 300k a year and not be a millionaire within a decade, then retire for the rest of their life in some LCOL place at 35??

You would have to force me to somehow blow that much money on retarded nonsense, as most of them seem to do.

For anyone who is not completely clueless about money FIRE is relatively attainable in the US.

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