I’ve always heard the phrase

I’ve always heard the phrase
>North Americans live to work, Europeans work to live
Is this true? What is the work culture like in Europe?

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In Southern Europe the work culture is non existent, in Northern Europe it's almost like Asian work culture just slightly more relaxed

We are good christians.
Work is a divine punishment.

Good cuck

work is meditation

this

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balkan/east euro is a bit different than regular euro..
>everyone owns a home, so you dont lose 1/2 of income to rent
>no one pays taxes, so you dont lose other 1/2 on tax
>2/3s of your income are pure cash, aka unreported and untaxed/hidden
>you work if you need to or feel like it
>never met a homeless person or indebted person (except to the local drinking hole, each and every one of us owes tens of thousands of dollars to the local drinking hole)

meanwhile outside of this place
>vacationless lifestyle, less days off than feudal serfs had in religious holidays alone
>lose 1/2 of money to rent
>lose another 1/2 to tax
>you saw homeless people in your life
>you saw minorities in your life
>you know people in debt, heck it may even be family members jesus christ
>all income is reported, taxed, known
>gotta work non-stop probably

feels like just as we dodged communism everyone else accepted it

fucking based Balkans

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I always find this Americlap thinking where they think "More work hours = more shit gets done"
Like these faggots never heard of diminishing returns
There is a reason why Germanic countries, despite having the distinction of worker drones that do nothing but work, compared to more Southern-Euros, have the lowest number of work hours in a year.

This is just straight up bad fucking capitalism, and Americlaps "pride" themselves on being NUMBAH WAN CAPITALST NASHON, despite their retarded work hours, and lack of time off having been proven time and time again to actually be a detriment to a business and actually reduces the possible income and earnings a company can make from its employees.
An exhausted, overworked, crippled ox plows no fields.

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your country made all its wealth from oil

1. I mentioned Germanic countries, not just Norway.
2. Norway was already one of the richer countries in Europe before oil was found. Oil just pushed the country even higher on the list.
3. Nice cope, my Amerilard friend.
What's that I hear
I think Joseph Shekelberg, your boss, is calling for you. Sounds like your 5 minute lunch break of the day is over.
Time to go back to your 16 hours work day.

I work labor, I don't take breaks. Breaks are for people on disability.
Your country made all its wealth from oil

>Breaks are for people on disability

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sounds like cope from the 1920s that's being stretched to try and cover modern situations

you are weaker than me

I'm not Norwegian, I'm Icelandic.
But yeah lets just assume that Norway made all its money from Oil.
That still leaves Iceland, Faroe Islands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland (Can basically be considered Germanic in this case), Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Parts of Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
And secondly, you're still coping
Of course you don't take breaks, you're a wage slave cuck.
I've worked labour jobs before, carpentry and public maintenance, and even in them we had breaks
You're just a little bitch that lets his employer use and abuse yourself
And I've still yet to hear your counter argument against anything of what I've said before.
And no, saying a country made its wealth via X thing is not valid, because I bet you wouldn't say Texas is only wealthy because of its Oil and not because of its "Capitalistic" values.

>You're just a little bitch that lets his employer use and abuse yourself
My boss tells me to take breaks multiple times a day but ignore him because my body slows down. I also don't eat lunch. My 'boss' is a relative who lets me do anything I want and lets me take as many vacations as I want.
Texas does owe a large portion of its wealth to oil.

>but ignore him because my body slows down
So you are a bitch, who's weaker than the two you replied to before
If you can't work properly after taking a break because your body "slows down", then it sounds like you got a medical condition called being a weakling

Imagine it like this, which do you think a company would rather buy?
A machine that can start and stop on command, one one that can't stop or else it will stop working correctly?

You see, we are not really a country in the traditional sense. We essentially exist to find/create financial success in a way that is tangentially just mutually beneficial enough for us to have a functional society. We are sustained by our greed and competitiveness

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Objects in motion stay in motion, objects at rest stay at rest. You said you've worked labor but I get the feeling you worked on a large team or were a pencil pusher. You would have no idea how to handle a job that relied solely on you to manage and complete it within a set time frame. You are weak mentally and physically.

I agree.
America is run by people that think only of greed and competitiveness.
But that doesn't make them the best or the most optimal in extracting wealth or being competitive.
For example, a greedy person will take 100 bucks now rather than wait a week for to get 200 instead.
Which is the problem with American "Capitalism".
You run on short term greed which in turns fucks over both your employees and your companies in the long term.
Why improve things for a better return tomorrow when you can cut corners and make money today?

>Objects in motion stay in motion, objects at rest stay at rest
Yeah, in a perfect vacuum, or something close to it.
So unless you're a massive object floating up in space, which might be possible seeing as you're an American, this does not apply to you.
>I get the feeling you worked on a large team
I worked in teams of 2 to 5 people, which you would probably say is a large team, seeing as you work alone.
>You would have no idea how to handle a job that relied solely on you to manage and complete it within a set time frame
I don't know what it is that you do, but I never like this "I suffer more so I'm better" shit.
Being a bitch that suffers the most is not an achievement, a contest that lets you put yourself over others or something to strive towards in life.
>You are weak mentally and physically.
This is complete projection on your part.
You are weak mentally as you are easily manipulated to work yourself into suffering and let yourself get taken advantage of.
You are weak physically because you're a bitch that can't stop and start without a lot of effort.
It makes it sound like you're fat as fuck, and so therefore you do not have the required energy to start and stop such a large mass often.

>Yeah, in a perfect vacuum, or something close to it.
inertia does not only exist in a near vacuum you clod. Do they not teach you of Newton in europe?
>I don't know what it is that you do
I do a bit of everything. Masonry, carpentry, plumbing, painting. Basically anything that needs being done and doesn't require you to be a licensed electrician, I can do it.
>but I never like this "I suffer more so I'm better" shit.
If I was suffering I would get an easier job. I enjoy my work and I take pride in it. I don't do it for necessity.
>you are easily manipulated to work yourself into suffering
>let yourself get taken advantage of.
Manipulated by who? This week I worked about 16 hours doing a carpentry job for a local school. I bid it for the cost of my rent this month. There is no machine that will not lose efficiency from having to stop and start. That is law of this universe. It is funny that a laborer from America is the first person to teach you this.
From my perspective you are the bitch

>Which is the problem with American "Capitalism".
This is unavoidably noticeable at this point, the suppliers for the industry I work in have outdone themselves with the lack of quality equipment they produce. Despite all this tech and it's advantages, all the outsourcing has created pure junk. It's not even as if it's a secret, even with 50% failure rates on equipment, they are still saving money.

if dubs I rape an american woman

the worst thing about the cruel treatment of the plebs is the temporarily embarrassed millionaire retards who defend it

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Yes work yourselves to death you dumb fucking goyim hahaha

This, but America isn't really a capitalist country. It's closer to a plutocracy, a two party dictatorship of the wealthy with little to no say for the common man. And it has been that way from the very start, so you can't even blame it on a corruption of its original values: by design "we the people" always meant the top 5% landowning, slave owning class.
>Inb4 hurrdurrleftard
My problem isn't even that the people was just white European men like a lot of lefties whine about, it's that the grand majority of those white European men were subject to taxation without representation (really makes you think) until the first president that wasn't part of the founding father clique: Andrew Jackson (the 8th president in total IIRC).

kek

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my family came from poverty, father worked hard, now we are millionaires
why don't you want to work?

kek based (((free market))) slave owners

in Canada there are 11 paid public holydays throughout the year.

where I came from (partially europe lol) there are 11 paid public holidays in January alone, 11 in May, and every single month there is at least 1