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In reply to the discussion: German unemployment lowest in 20 years [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)because of its traditions of labor guilds, excellent apprenticeships and education and labor laws that ensure the dignity of working people. Germans have, over the centuries, developed patient, well organized ways of working.
For example, at least as recently as 2008, German stores were/are closed on Sundays.
http://reason.com/archives/2008/10/06/no-shopping-please-were-german
German workers work fewer hours than Americans. That may be one of the reasons for the higher quality of their products: the workers are less tired during their working hours.
We Americans wear ourselves out at work trying to convince our bosses that they shouldn't fire us.
Who knows? Maybe our health would improve if we passed laws that helped Americans relax just a bit about job security and fairness in the workplace. Maybe people would spend more time cooperating and being positive in the workplace if only big bosses like Romney and our schoolboards printed fewer pink slips.
Just thinking.