The difference between America and Europe is that in America, people can decide for themselves how much of a life-work balance they want.
In Europe, the government makes that decision for you.
Oh no how terrible, the government says I have to be treated well no matter who I work for.
Europeans are used to the government ruling their lives.
Each year I am honing and adding to my skills, which increases my value, which increases the salary I demand.
In other words, wages don't keep up with inflation so you have to get a "raise" to keep up. Which doesn't help starting wages increase to match inflation for people entering the workforce.
Cool story bro - you Eurokings are really triggered by this one story that dares to claim you're not the ubermenschen you are. Probably should get used to it - your slinging shit our way so often - it's understandable you get booboo feelings.
there is no force. If you don't like the hours, choose a different job.
I guess you have high IQ, as well as a good balance of the hormones that regulate willpower (high levels of dopamine, serotonin, testosterone, and leptin, and low levels of cortisol and ghrelin), all the while living in a time period and geographic location in which this combination of factors makes it easy to find good, high status, well-paying jobs.
Confusing one's genetic luck with merit is something people who got lucky in the genetic lottery tend to do quite regularly, as attributing one's success almost exclusively to luck is hard on the ego. So much so, in fact, that when confronted with this basic fact most of them lucky ones promptly start rationalizing (and oh, how easy it is for high IQ people to rationalize!) and grasping at the tiny non-genetically determined straws of their biographies, to then justify their luck exclusively on these.
And presto, ego preserved.
Most of my employers have known so little about how to do what I do that they don't know how to tell good from bad, and consider all employees plug-replaceable.
Mine have trouble knowing about what I do, but my performance tells them I know what I'm doing.
My field is electromagnetics, so very few understand it.
Maybe you should move to Europe and be happy? I hear they have no labor problems ever, and the employees are treated like the kings and queens they are.
Good luck. Hope you have enough put away that you don't need to worry about food, or medicine, or rent. You know, JUST in case there aren't as many jobs to choose from as you thought.
Depends on whether you bring value added or not. I've never had an issue, even being lured out of retirement with offers I couldn't refuse.
There is a whole lot to be said for working hard, and reaping the rewards. You can go on some pretty awesome vacations when you have the resources you build up.
Some of us get all kinds of offers without even looking. I just got one yesterday.
Forcing somebody to work more than 10h/day and 50h/week
Except there is no force. If you don't like the hours, choose a different job.
The difference between America and Europe is that in America, people can decide for themselves how much of a life-work balance they want.
In Europe, the government makes that decision for you.
Exactly. The job description states exactly how many full time hours you'll work.
It's simple as reading the job description!
How do the superior Europeans know exactly how many hours all employees will work? And what do you superiors do if a critical piece isn't finished at the end of your day - you just walk away and let it crash?
I've never had a job where everything is cut and dried. Research often has experiments that run constantly for hours. The experiment might take 12 hours, and the experiment doesn't take off time for lunch. I've had some that work longer than that, and if you are the principle, it's best to hang around.
Even now that I'm presumably retired, my present work involves a day that takes as long as it takes. No one is getting arrested, and if that long day offends some folk, they can get a different job that suits them, because some work doesn't involve walking away after your 8 hours.
Although your concern is noted, for professionals, it's not as big a thing to us as it is to you.
There, FIFY.
It's illegal in Europe to work people like people are worked in the US. That's why Americans are worked so much harder than Europeans.
I take it that your ultimate goal in life is to not have to work at all, or not worked at all.
Going to be a lot of popcorn eaten on this article, because Europeans cannot handle any statements that do not assure the world that they are the epitome of humanity.
I always like to remind our superiors that before I retired, I got a lot more vacation than they do. Makee go ree.
hear, hear! This! Unfortunately you have to have that surplus to invest, but if you do, and you go with SPY's or other indexes, you MOST LIKELY will be able to retire... presuming you can put away money reliably every year, over 30 - 40 years. If, Like me, you had no one to teach you this shit and had to figure it out on your own in your 30's, you will still have some good nest-egg bucks, just maybe not what a smarter person who started int heir 20's would have, the secret is COMPOUNDING.
Most definitely, compounding is one of those math things that seems strange to people until they take a hard look at it. The biggest deterrent is that it takes time. But damn! it does work.
One of the things with saving is also living within your means - and as long as you understand the element of time, it's not that hard. After getting married, we kept our cars longer, furniture longer, and here's the part where I lose people - we lived in a mobile home as I was saving money for a house. Then bought a decent place with a big down payment, and paid it off over 12 years.
People don't seem to understand the concept of total outlay. In the event that it might help someone, let's assume a 500,000 dollar house with a 20 percent down payment at 5 percent interest.
Okay, so the person decides to do a 30 year mortgage. The payments are 2542 a month so over 30 years, you would have paid back 915,120 dollars.
You would have paid the bank 415,120 dollars over the 500,000 purchase price.
If you paid off the same loan at the same interest in 15 years, you would have paid back 640,440 dollars.
You would have paid the bank 140,440 dollars over the 500000 dollars, or 274,680 dollars less.
Now, imagine what you could have realized if you put that 274,680 dollars to work for you, and the fact that after 15 years, you wouldn't be paying any mortgage at all after 15 years.
You could really kick the compounding into overdrive.
Contraception and the power of the religious nuts to deny people sex education getting smaller.
This is true, but a big part of this is males forgoing sex. Which of course is the ultimate birth control.Pew research indicates that 60 percent of young males are single, and that sexual intimacy is at a 30 year low.
It is not unreasonable to think that there might be other reasons than the standard reasons given. Indeed, back in the day, if there was any danger of pregnancy, my lady friends and I could have quite enjoyable evenings together, without getting our naughty bits close to each other. This isn't that. This is zero sex.
Do EVs really use the traction batteries to top up the 12V battery while the Vehicle is off and parked?
Depends on the vehicle. Some cars stop doing that after a period of time, and some use a power threshold. There might even be some cars that don't do it at all, but I'm not sure.
For Tesla, as I understand it, the HV battery is used to periodically recharge the 12V battery as long as the HV battery is above 20% SoC. So for most EVs, the answer is yes, just because Teslas are... well, most EVs.
To understand why, you need only look at what Tesla does with the 12V battery. When sentry mode is active, both the self-driving computer and the MCU are active (with the screen off), drawing as much as O(300) watts continuously. The 12V battery in a Tesla is a 33AH battery (around half the size of a typical ICE car's battery), which means that at 300 watts, it would completely deplete the battery in about 79 minutes.
There are, of course, various intermediate levels of consumption between deep sleep and sentry mode that have various levels of power consumption, resulting in the battery charging anywhere from frequently to rarely.
And of course, sentry mode is automatically disabled below 20% state of charge so that it won't kill your 12V battery.
Society is made up of social contracts. If you rationalize giving one side more than the other by default, don't be surprised when the other side reduces their participation in fatherhood or in marriage and relationships altogether.
And this is why many men are avoiding the social contract.
What is more, men who are making average income are generally eliminated from the marriage pool after losing half of their assets - even more in many cases. Unless a man is wealthy, he's not going to be attractive as a mate any more.
This is all pretty simple math.
Why does anyone have to "ask" or "push" for custody of their own child? Both parents brought that kid into this world and by default both should be expected to have an equal part in raising that child.
Because we live in a country where reproductive rights are the sole province of women. The man is considered a wallet.
Take abortion for instance. Although I support abortion if it is Tuesday, the man has no part in it, if he is pro or con an instance where he opposes the woman's decision, he has zero input. But after birth, it is mostly his responsibility for the next 22 years.
You can see this in divorce cases, where the judges who are responsible have to constantly remind the women that the children are both hers and his, not solely hers.
Don't forget to add feminism. A lot of men don't want to deal with abusive women..
"Abusive women". That's rich.
Um, While you appear to believe that women are always the victim, never at fault, yes, homie - there are indeed abusive women out there.
"The woman is always the victim" narrative is 100 percent disempowering and insulting to women, as it casts them as weak and incapable.
Inflation isn't a deterrent to savings,
This.
If people think that this is the worst of times, never equaled in the history of humanity, They kinda have it wrong.
When I first entered the workforce in the early 1970's we had double digit inflation, not to mention a high unemployment rate.
And the common mantra was "Don't save money, Inflation will make it worth nothing!" And Meanwhile, like a dumbass, I heeded my old man's advice and saved and invested - a lot.
So 3 separate TDA's, money in indexes and munis. and it ain't too shabby to retire on 6 figures yearly. It does take discipline, and smart investment counselor that doesn't try to blow smoke up yer ass.
Yep. Such a surprise.
An interesting discussion is why at earlier times, this did not happen.
Even during the depression in the 1930's, people did not stop having sex.
To thine own self be true. (If not that, at least make some money.)
