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To: combjelly who wrote (922675)	2/23/2016 1:38:36 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1571061

CJ, I've been to Europe to experience first-hand this socialist utopia that the left keeps talking about. There is definitely a lower standard of living there. The difference is that most people there don't really mind, or at least have come to accept it as inevitable. Different culture, different expectations. The French, for example, will fight like hell before they have to work a minute over 35 hours a week. And heaven forbid any of them work on Sunday, even though modern-day France is very secular and have no religious reason to keep the Sabbath holy. (That worked out well for me one time when my wife wanted to go to Les Printemps in Paris, but it was Sunday so it was closed and we had to get back to London that night.) That's a lot different than here in Silicon Valley, where "flexible work hours" means getting to choose any 70 hours of the week you want to work. I haven't been to Denmark, but I'd imagine it's the same, just like all of the other countries in Europe I've visited. Tenchusatsu