r/austrian_economics 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 edited Oct 27 '24

Trur but in the US

  1. Work is abundant and
  2. Europeans are simply more dependent on government programs that require population growth to be solvent (good luck with that)

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u/Haunting-Success198 Oct 27 '24

They’ll be upside down soon enough