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The European Union’s remarkable growth performance relative to the United States (www.bruegel.org)
submitted 9 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/europe@feddit.de
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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

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[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe in Western Europe, but years of online gaming have taught me that Eastern Europeans have dreadful English skills. Your perspective is probably skewed, since we Germans are comparatively fluent.

[–] Ooops@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.