If you asked a European to work 30% more, make 50% more, but spend 2h of their day commuting in a $80,000 pickup truck listening to fitness podcasts, they'd decline in disgust.

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America Is on Par with Europe, says Intelligentsia (FT, Martin Wolf)

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> If you asked a European to work 30% more, make 50% more, but spend 2h of their day commuting in a $80,000 pickup truck listening to fitness podcasts, they'd decline in disgust.

yup, 100%. 

And the flipside, too: 
- if you asked an American to take a 50% cut to disposable income, have some extra free time and (paid) time off, severely restricted access and range of option to health care and a much less vibrant economic and social environment, with more or less double unemployment, I think they'll mostly be equally disgusted.