‘Americans just work harder’ than Europeans, says CEO of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund, because they have a higher ‘general level of ambition’

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• cerement@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL: “desperation” = “ambition”

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• nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  … says random guy who probably started out rich and never worked even one minute for bare minimum.

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• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Higher ambition to not be homeless, sick or bankrupt? Everything is insanely overpriced to boost corporate profits and we have no fucking healthcare or social safety net. In fact, we are the only “developed” country to lack these basic, fundamental features.

  Americans work this hard because we are hungry, and the only thing that will satisfy at this point is billionaire meat.

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• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m assuming he’s just big mad that he can’t force his employees to work 60+ hours a week?

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• vxx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Working more hours doesn’t mean you’re working harder.

  I have worked with a lot of people from all over the world, and Americans have stuck out by being inefficient and following instructions to the point that they don’t use their own brain anymore.

  Well, it’s only a small sample size based ony own experience, but I doubt it’s any different to the CEO talking out of his ass.

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• FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Slavery never left America, they just gave it a different name and made it faceless.

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Being able to eat and pay rent is ambitious.

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• morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  for sure, when your survival is on the line if you or someone in you family ever becomes sick, gotta hustle that 3rd part time job

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• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s my ambition: be there for my family and enjoy life with them for the fixed set of hours I have on this dirtball. Working overtime isn’t compatible my plan. Nobody goes to their grave thinking “I should have worked harder”.

  But you do you…

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• Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or maybe, just maybe, Europe has been around for soooo much longer than America that they’ve reached the age where they realize that there are other priorities in life than just the accumulation of wealth. Like enjoying life, having a work/life balance, socializing with one’s friends and family.

  Perpsectives change when your history as a country is longer than a few hundred years.

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  • forgotaboutlaye@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also Europe is less run by corporations.

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    • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which unfortunately is changing rapidly, the American flavour of capitalism is taking over the world.

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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  More like salaries below survival limit, so overtime is a must-have.

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• MHard@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unlike other posters, I think this is not wrong. You see a lot of “hustle culture” over there as well as the general belief that if they work hard they can get rich. Whether that’s a good thing or not is another question.

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  • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hustle culture usually equates to doing a couple of hours work over 10 hours spent in the office for “visibility”

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• P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a Norwegian, fuck you Tangen.

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  • brealorg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, he is a idiot

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s the American dream baby!

  He’s probably right, but at the same time good on Norwegians for not having to slowly kill themselves working and having the chance to enjoy life instead.

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wage slaves work in the US not for basic necessities, but for a sense of pride and accomplishment.

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We’d have fewer problems if they didn’t

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