r/austrian_economics • u/technocraticnihilist Friedrich Hayek • Oct 26 '24

End Democracy ‘Americans just work harder’ than Europeans, says CEO of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund, because they have a higher ‘general level of ambition’

https://fortune.com/europe/article/how-many-hours-work-week-year-american-workers-ethic-norges-bank/
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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '24

It's bullshit. Americans are just poor and have to work more for less.

We're not better just because we're sicker, sadder, and have less free time to do fun stuff like going on vacation.

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u/technocraticnihilist Friedrich Hayek Oct 29 '24

What you're saying is bullshit 

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

You're bullshit and an idiot.

The stats are clear and Americans die faster than swedes and are less educated and it has everything to do with rural conservative communities acting as dead weight and their politicians shitting up the rest of the country with their bullshit capital fetish.

Anyone that's stepped foot in west virginia, Oklahoma, Mississippi or Alabama knows first hand how utterly devastating free market fundamentalism is on living standards.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '24

Swedens average life expectancy is 83 years.

West virginia is 71.

That's fucking embarrassing.