Americans only work harder only WHEN IT IS IN THEIR SELF INTEREST TO WORK HARDER. That is what capitalism is all about. American socialists are trying to change that formula. American people of all races, religions and creeds are not stupid.
And this one works harder than the average three of his neighbors.
When Volvo brought offices and manufacturing to America, they prided themselves om the Swedish model of lots of time off and work-life balance. Then they instituted the typical American 2 weeks of PTO which they cited as “required in the US”. No amount of logic could dissuade them. Then they hired 1099 workers to limit the benefits they gave out.
Europeans figured out long ago that they didn’t need to work harder or pay more for security. They know America will sacrifice their futures blood and treasure for them. The suckers are Americans, while Europeans vacation and drink coffee.
we have to because otherwise the 100’s of millions of illegals and H1B Indians will steal our jobs.
The illegals pay no taxes so they can work for 1/2 the wage of an American - so Americans have to work 2X as hard.
This does not set up a nice future for our children or grandchildren - but neoCON scum only care about ‘muh corporations!’ and the MIC - SCREW main street Americans!
This is why they HATE Trump so much! Because he cares about main street Americans more than ‘muh corporations’
No incentive when they are taxed 35%. This is hwere we are headed soon if they have their way.
https://planetnorway.com/taxes/
The globalists are doing all they can to ensure that Americans no longer work harder.
America still has some of that “Puritan work ethic” (for lack of a better term). I doubt it that part of the culture will stick around for much longer though.
Americans used to work harder!
The older Americans still do, the younger ones are the same slackers as the ones in Europe.
Don’t worry — we are disencentivizing work and will reach total lassitude soon.
Having lived and worked in Germany....
It does not pay to work hard in Europe. The taxes are so high and the welfare is so generous it doesn’t pay to work harder than the minimum needed to pay a few bills.
The private sector, anyway.
If you own your own business, I'm not sure if perks provided by the business, like housing or a car, are considered taxable income. So small and medium sized family firms can produce a much higher effective income for their owners. In Poland, for example, I think owner-operated businesses have much lower tax and social security type contributions.
Investors in the US do have to worry about out of control executives who run their companies like a cash-extraction colonial operation, focused solely on extracting max pay, bonuses and stock option pay-offs over the short term by stiffing R&D, capital investment, and even sharing core tech with competitors simply to grab more cash. See Boeing, GE, etc.