Hah! Let me tell you a personal story here. I once taught English lessons at the Siemens chip fab in Dresden, Saxony. There, the employees get 6 weeks paid vacation. Once I asked some advanced students whether they would sacrifice one week of vacation for double-pay. Eight out of eight students not only rejected the proposal for themselves, they wouldn't allow anyone else to choose it either! These were relatively young people, too--ages from 25-40. Of course, this was in the former East where people have a weird loyalty to Marxism. Still, I was shocked. I had lived in Prague and found the Czechs much more sedulous, ambitious, and entrepreneurial than the Germans--once the hardest working, most populous nation in Europe.