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November 09, 2004
Alternative interpretation
Of course, the other way to look at this is that it simply takes a lot more money to convince someone to move here to the states than to move to Europe. Just a thought:
Lazy EuropeansAll right! An evidence-free debate about why Europeans don't work more. When I'm engaging in a priori speculation, I like to make my theories maximally offensive. So how about this. Given all the destructive wars and emigration to Areas of Recent Settlement, Europe is basically populated by (genetically) lazy and risk-averse people because everyone else ran off to another continent or else got shot trying to storm trenches somewhere. Here in the USA we have the good sense to try and mainly beat up on ill-equipped Native Americans or Fallujans or some such thing, so the gung-ho tend to deliver. And consider that most of the European expatriates I know in the states are highly skilled professionals drawn to a country they bitch about endlessly for the sake of career opportunities of some sort or other. Conversely, most of the American expatriates I've met in Europe are marginally employed loafers who seem to be under the impression that they're writing a novel/screenplay/whatever.
Posted by Mike at November 9, 2004 10:32 AM
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