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[–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In case you want real data rather than personal biases, the average us employee works fewer hours than the average new Zealander (or +62hr/yr ~1 hr/week if you use the oecd data). In neither dataset is the US at the top. New Zealand, Australia, and the US are all wayyy above the German/french crowd, though.

Even if the germans are taking two months off they're still only working 6 hr/day, which explains their pay (american engineers seem to follow the pattern of 1-it sucks here->2-what about europe->3-actually, I will accept getting 3x pay for more work).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_annual_labor_hours

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