Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most • Hacker News Board

Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by smt88 » Mon, Nov 23, 2015, 7:26 PM UTC

cft wrote: post #97

smt88 wrote: post #48

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I'd prefer to live in a country with low GDP growth and have an enjoyable life than kill myself with work.

But your great grandchildren (if any) will prefer that you had different preferences.

First of all, it may be a false tradeoff. There certainly is a lot of evidence that happy people with balanced lives are more productive.

Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, and Australia have very high quality-of-life (according to the Economist Intelligence Unit) and very high per-capita GDP[1]. Note that Switzerland's and Australia's GDP per capita are more than double Japan's. Sweden's is close to double.

Second, my grandchildren will be able to move to any country they want. If they prefer a soul-crushing job, they can easily find one.

1. https://trulysingapore.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/per-capit...

Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by irixusr » Tue, Nov 24, 2015, 3:43 AM UTC

TulliusCicero wrote: post #40

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The EU block's GDP is also the highest in the world though, with little room to grow. Furthermore, the only Asian country if comparable GOP/capita is Japan which has smaller growth than Europe for two decades...

South Korea has a similar GDP/capita to many European countries. Not the richer ones, but some countries in Southern or Eastern Europe.

Sure S. Korea is great Taiwan also. But before insinuating that europe's economic woes are due to their summer holidays, I'd look at curroption and the like.

Re: Study Finds That Asians Take Fewest Vacation Days, Europeans Take Most

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Post by irixusr » Tue, Nov 24, 2015, 3:56 AM UTC

cft wrote: post #97

smt88 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd prefer to live in a country with low GDP growth and have an enjoyable life than kill myself with work.

But your great grandchildren (if any) will prefer that you had different preferences.

Well there won't be any Asians either. Japan has a celibacy problem, sekkusu shinai shokogun. Their young have given up on sex altogether. They've killed even the two most physical and the most primitive joys in life - sex and the parenthood.