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mirgro on 25 March 2010
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Vetteman94 said:
mirgro said:
fmc83 said:
mirgro said:
NJ5 said:

28 days of vacation per year... This means I can have a nice summer vacation and Christmas/New Year to go back home as well.

My philosophy is work to live, don't live to work.

 

I don't know where you are from, but it sounds like you are not US grown but European grown. I like your style and I fully support your philosophy.

I'm gonna risk a ban to say that a lot of US grown people I have met  have some really fucked up priorities in life.

I wouldn't say, that this is f... up, but I reckon this very point is the most important diffference between the US and European countries.

And this basic point leads to all the arguments - may it be health care, economy, social politics: This huge difference is the origin.

I agree that it may not be fucked up, but it is very anti-social different. However even by US standards anti-social is automatically labeled as some form of fucked up and they really make that clear, so I guess I have them to blame if I label their anti-social behavior as fucked up instead of just saying different. Too much has rubbed off on me it seems.

P.S. It's also very anoying to hear how their world view made hem the number one country when it had nothing to do with it. It was all blind luck and huge borrowing and debt accruing.

I would like to know more about how you think certain people have very anti-social behavior when it comes to how they treat their work?

Also is there really a need for the bashing of their people and their world views?

I spent some time in a few of the lower Fortune 500 companies, and the mindset of how the people have to work and how imporant the work is to them is extremely anti-social. They don't see their families for weeks a a time, and i the few companies I saw it seemed like they were under a "deadline" 3 weeks out of any given 4. Their social lives seemd to revolve around work as well.

Meanwhile I spent some time in Spain. You got to work, you get out on time, fuck the rest, and then you never mention work again outside of it. They are super concentrated during those hours they work but the moment time should be gone they are gone. Nothing even remotely as bad as what I saw in the US corporations.

Add that mentality to the already extremely anti-social, suburban, strcuture that the US is in and the consequences are very disasterous. The most social places in the US that I have visited are NYC and Miami, and Miami is full of Hispanics and NYC doesn't have the rich spread out in suburbs.

As to why I bash its world views, it's because humans are social animals, every study on the planet has shown that, and the US system is very anti-social.