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Re:Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds by refurb on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:14AM (#12735252)
That might be true in the aggregate, but I imagine it's not for specific groups. Why else would so many people move to the US for job opportunities?
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Re:Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds by stannol on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:47PM (#12736287)
The number of immigrants per capita in the US is not especially high. It's lower than in Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Germany and similar to most Western European nations.
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Re:Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds by RandomName2020 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @11:31AM (#12735426)
1. Because US is big. 2. Because it is more welcoming for immigrants. 3. Because of broken H1B system.
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Re:Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds by digikata on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:13PM (#12735884)
Because it had great (and I mean multi-generational enduring American Dream great) PR from after WWII thru at least the late 60's.
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Re:Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds by coriny on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @12:55PM (#12736395)
The post-WW2 soft power strategy by the US was awesome and extremely effective. Sadly, it seems that by the 70s the pentagon had become solely obsessed with the projection of hard power. I personally reckon this has a huge amount to do with the decline of the US's popularity around the globe in the subsequent decades.
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Re:Americans Work 25% More Than Europeans, Study Finds by ionised on Thursday October 20, 2016 @06:51AM (#12751212)
As an outside observer and frequent critic of US foreign policy I would agree.
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