For example, Americans and Western Europeans spend similar amounts of time on leisure, but Americans spend relatively more time doing market-remunerated work rather than doing work at home.
Not, of course, just buy more tech and gadgets to do the non Market labour tasks. By doing more highly paid Market labour hours one can be The Man to provide Market Labour opportunities to other less well paid people, thus freeing up (almost) all those hours to leisure.
Imagine how much wealthier Europe would be if all those on the Left had spent their time producing useful stuff instead of arguing they were right in the 104 years since von Mises published Socialism and showed they were wrong?
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A recent deep dive with plenty of stats:
Americans Are Richer Than Everyone Else
The U.S. is the place to be if you're ambitious, but not necessarily if you're poor
Cremieux
https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/americans-are-richer-than-everyone
For example, Americans and Western Europeans spend similar amounts of time on leisure, but Americans spend relatively more time doing market-remunerated work rather than doing work at home.
Not, of course, just buy more tech and gadgets to do the non Market labour tasks. By doing more highly paid Market labour hours one can be The Man to provide Market Labour opportunities to other less well paid people, thus freeing up (almost) all those hours to leisure.
Imagine how much wealthier Europe would be if all those on the Left had spent their time producing useful stuff instead of arguing they were right in the 104 years since von Mises published Socialism and showed they were wrong?