The EU has outperformed the US on per-capita output growth; in terms of output per hour worked, some EU countries are as productive as the US

The article chooses to take a metric that you usually do not see much: GDP per employee and per hours worked, at purchasing power standards

  • Ooops@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    Your perspective is probably skewed, since we Germans are comparatively fluent.

    It’s even worse. Germany has still some generational divide here but high proficiency on average on a level comparable to countries without that generational gap. So in reality Germans are not comparably fluent, but very proficient… or not at all. Which skews perception even more.