Re:How I got to 200 productive hours a month
by dahauns on Friday September 22, 2017 @08:06AM
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As someone growing up in rural Austria in the 80s, when lots of grandfathers had been Wermacht soldiers, I firmly agree.
In hindsight, it was painfully obvious with so many of them. And the number of functional alcoholics (with often a rather loose definition of "functional") was huge.
Re:How I got to 200 productive hours a month
by coldtea on Friday September 22, 2017 @08:06AM
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Dunno, we have had huge WWII impact, dictatorship, civil war, and other such things in my parts, and they didn't impact much the generations involved in everyday life. I know tons of people that survived those events. Speaking to friends and relatives it was just things that happened. So it goes, etc.
Re:How I got to 200 productive hours a month
by taway_1212 on Friday September 22, 2017 @08:25AM
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Maybe they were more lucky. In case of my grandparents, they were children whose parents were executed by Nazis or sent to Auschwitz to die, or who themselves were sent, as teenagers, to a Stalinist prison.
Re:How I got to 200 productive hours a month
by coldtea on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:07PM
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Yes, both kinds of concentration camps are very extreme experiences.
I'm talking more general war and civil war scenarios (e.g. having your city bombed, being in a war, having family members die in such scenarios, etc -- which have been common in many places in the developing world (and Europe).
But the constant terror of a concentration camp for months or years on end is another thing.
To the contrary, I think the past generations of my family who have survived WW2 and Stalinism were, till the end of their days, heavily impaired by it. They "snapped out of it" to the degree that was required for not starving, but I would not say they had developed nearly up to their full potential.