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Re:Friedman: Invent, Invent, Invent by ojbyrne on Monday June 29, 2009 @10:37AM (#679005)
One of the weirder things I saw in Germany (and I'm not using this to refute your argument, just an aside) was the apprentice carpenters going around asking for handouts.

There's an article here about them:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,416564,00.html

I found it to be just plain weird.

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Re:Friedman: Invent, Invent, Invent by access_denied on Monday June 29, 2009 @04:57PM (#679655)
It's basically the historical version of the internship. Craftsman would work together with collegues from other regions of the country, they learn the tricks of the trade of each other.
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