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Originally Posted by Wagner
To an extent you're right. But farms (to quote Michelle "that feed your fat @ss") and several industries that deal with manual labor would disagree with you. Goes to work smarter not harder. However I would easily say that Europe has failed at this motivation. How many large scale work stoppages have happened in Europe in the last decade?
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The percentage of jobs that are manual labor is much lower today than it was 30 years ago, and that number will continue to decline as time goes on.
As for Europe failing in motivation, I believe most European countries have much better trade balances than we do. Last I checked, they still make pretty good cars, they make most of the cell phones in the world, and quite a few other products. In fact, I'm pretty sure Europe as a whole has a trade surplus, not a deficit.
Just a reminder that a trade deficit means you consume more than you produce, while a trade surplus means you produce more than you consume. Apparently this lack of motivation is not affecting their productivity too much.
And China, the biggest communist country in the world, is apparently also the most productive country in the world. Just perhaps there are other motivating factors besides money??