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Re:Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in... by allendoerfer on Saturday November 15, 2014 @02:30PM (#8612414)
History has given us an image of crazy-efficient labour-soldiers and (evil) thinkers, which is passed on with articles like this.

In reality Germany is just an export nation with solid centuries-old world-known brands, a currency of an emerging country [0] and stagnating wages [1], producing luxury and investment goods, while Asia's growth creates demand for these like crazy.

[0]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/moneybuilder/2013/06/20/greece-d...

[1]: http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.342374.de

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Re:Why Germans Work Fewer Hours but Produce More: A Study in... by justincormack on Saturday November 15, 2014 @02:41PM (#8612438)
Germany also produces non luxury and non investment goods, it has a world class engineering industry producing all sorts of products.
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