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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:Look, USA workers may be lazy and fat, but bitching about that DOES NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM. Even if USA workers were quite industrious, like me (points to feet on desk  ), there would still be one very simple issue causing the problem to linger: life COSTS MORE here, thus wages must be higher here. So, the lazy USA worker is a side issue, related but not the same. Oh, and we're fat because of an increased standard of living and a decreased food cost (relative to other goods) -- it's inevitable. Look at the wealthy women as opposed to the poor women in Rennaissance paintings and statues. I hate fat, and I work to avoid it, but there is a reasonable explanation for why the USA population is the way it is.
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My understanding is that the myth of the lazy american worker is just that, a myth. Hasn't worker productivity increased nearly every year for the last decade?
Here are a couple of articles I googled up on it:
In U.S., Work Intensity Helps Boost Productivity
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0511-07.htm
US worker productivity jumps
http://www.catiaworld.com/lang1/mem/...n/0000006e.htm
U.S. productivity jumps
http://money.cnn.com/2001/11/07/economy/economy/