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While the focus of most of the dreadful employment data in Europe is on the surging youth joblessness, there is another growing shift. The jobless crisis is affecting men more than women, according to the EU labor force survey. As Bloomberg's Niraj Shah notes, the employment rate for men fell 0.3 percentage point to 69.8 percent in 2012, while rising 0.1 percentage point for women to 58.6 percent. What is perhaps even more concerning is the growing divergence between employment rates across the union (remembering all these nations are driven by the same monetary policy) from Holland's 75.1% employment rate to only 51.3% of employable citizens working in Greece. It is perhaps no wonder that Germany is having second thoughts over aiding the 'fourth world' nation.

 

 

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Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:39 | 3641825 FieldingMellish
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Tootsie 2.0

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:50 | 3642308 YuropeanImbecille
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The only unemployed in Europe are the Snackbars and the africans.. They are happy though, as they can rape and murder while collecting some hefty wellfare cheques !

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:55 | 3642331 Herd Redirectio...
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This has been a 'Man's Recession' for the most part.  Government workers (i.e. primarily women) have hardly been affected SO FAR by the last few years.

The only male dominated industry that has recovered would be... Construction?  Nope.  Finance.  But even that has been constructed on a tenuous premise, as we all know.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 12:21 | 3642445 Nussi34
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The Spanish chicks all became hookers in Germany! BITCHES!

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 12:46 | 3642534 TPTB_r_TBTF
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Prostitution is legal in Germany so

women in Germany have to accept "employment" as whores or

have their unemployment checks get docked.

 

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:43 | 3641844 SheepDog-One
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.01% rise really? I just take such numbers as line static.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:44 | 3641847 LeisureSmith
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The cannon fodder procurement program roll's on.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:44 | 3641848 Motorboat
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Affecting men more than women, also whites more than blacks, and documented more than illegals, as intended by the globalist Jew World Order.  Same in the US, get the picture?

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:46 | 3641864 lizzy36
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How do you know what is intended by the "globalist Jew World Order" are you a member?

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:49 | 3641875 Temporalist
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You don't need to be a member, just subscribe to the posts of those all-knowing ZHers and you too will be an expert.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 10:24 | 3642010 orangegeek
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CNBC plant.  Hunting to do some conversions?

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 12:04 | 3642367 Herd Redirectio...
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How can someone even ask this "How do you know what is intended by the "globalist Jew World Order" are you a member?"  with a straight face?

Follow the money, lizzy, and let me know what you find.  What is the most powerful SINGLE institution currently in the world?  The Federal Reserve.  And who is in charge?  Bernanke?  Greenspan? 

What aspect of society's job is it to provide insight, critical analysis, opinion, news?  Oh, thats right, the media.  And who owns/controls the media?  Well, all of about 5 corporations.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 10:04 | 3641932 otto skorzeny
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Don't drown in the sea of brown untermensch washing over you. Race you to the bottom-Zionist cunts.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:24 | 3642234 Debt Slave
Mon, 06/10/2013 - 10:21 | 3641993 CheapBastard
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17 European Countries Force Transgender Sterilization (Map)

 

 

 

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/most-european-countries-force-st...

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:08 | 3642188 Buckaroo Banzai
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Mother Jones, at it again. The worst of the worst.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:17 | 3642215 Harbanger
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Mother Jones is only the #3 most liberal media twitter feed.  Which means it's not "The worst of the worst."

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:09 | 3642189 Buckaroo Banzai
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How would you tell? The entire continent of Europe has had its balls chopped off.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:52 | 3641888 Harbanger
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After you become a woman make sure your partner knows that they don't own you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNb-8gLcXLs

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:45 | 3641853 Inthemix96
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You might want to reconsider the options my American friends.

Your best bet is to become an MP or 'Right Honourable Gentleman' as we have over here, another one of the fucking gormless fuckers has been caught on camera bragging about how he can 'Fix' problems for cash.

Now just how fucking stupid are these daft cunts?  If I was flaunting myself illicitly for cash I wouldnt be doing it on fucking camera, with someone you've never met, and couldnt possibly trust?

And todays prize clown is 'Tim Yeo', Conservative twat idiot.  These fuckers is just laughing at us now folks, we really should do something about the criminal swines.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:45 | 3641855 Debugas
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why there is no unemployement problems in eastern europe ? Maybe because minimum wages are at 300 euros per month and average at 500 euros per month ?

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:53 | 3641892 Bearwagon
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Or is it because they are all over here in the west, doing seasonal work for diddly-squat, which is quite a lot of money back home? Could that be important in this regard? (I'd never blame them for it.)

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:53 | 3641894 SheepDog-One
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300 Euros? Righteous bucks due!

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:49 | 3641877 beekeeper
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Looks like the toilet water flows clockwise over there in the EU. Say goodbye to Greece.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:54 | 3641896 Suisse
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I would like to buy Greek property at third world prices, since Greece has a third world economy.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:43 | 3642288 Non Passaran
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Yeah but that'd still be a bad deal because we're talking about a fourth world place.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 12:12 | 3642402 Herd Redirectio...
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I think you are 'reading' the Greece problem wrong.  The people feel there is too much corruption, both from big companies and the government.  So they don't want anything to do with it.  So you don't pay money to the gov't.  No taxes, not even sales tax.  You work for cash, call yourself unemployed, and used the black market as much as possible.

They are voting with their decisions, they obviously don't think the politicians will save them.

They want to bring their gov't down, and they will succeed.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:52 | 3641891 billwilson
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Totally igonres the "black" economy. Lots of men working contruction/trades etc ... not on the books. 

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 12:13 | 3642406 Herd Redirectio...
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Which might be a lot of people in a boom time... But right now?

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:55 | 3641903 SheepDog-One
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S&P 20 fucking handle pump SRSLY?

Damn....things must be getting REALLY bad for this kind of insane desperation.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:55 | 3641904 Temporalist
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I see Hungary is on the list but the whole nation is employed presently trying to save the nation from record flood waters.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:56 | 3641909 tao400
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Going to italy soon. hoping they are desparate on clothes prices.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 09:57 | 3641912 Temporalist
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One thing you can be certain of and that is if you are a tourist you will get NO discounts.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 10:03 | 3641929 Sudden Debt
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Simply put, we've shifted from production to a service sector. And in a service sector it's all about data entry and telephone centres and woman are just better at those jobs.

Second, men get frustrated if they do jobs like that.

 

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 10:18 | 3641983 Towgunner
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Well, yes that is true, but, if today's service economy is better suited for women, then, why do women insist "proportionality", quotas and affirmative action? In otherwords, forcing employers to hire just women, don't see that for men right? Maybe men are generally better workers than women in all circumstances.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 10:46 | 3642116 bluskyes
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Women aren't interested in equality, or affirmative action. They only play that game, when they feel it is advantageous to do so.

I don't know any women who have clamoured to work in a feed mill, or the bowels of a rendering plant. For the most part the squawkers just want to be in a place where they can squeeze a man's balls - like in a boardroom, or in upper management.

If "equality" were something natural, and self-evident, then there would be no segregation of genders in sport, and women would be able to compete with men, without special consideration.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:35 | 3642267 Towgunner
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Bingo! And because "equaity" is not something natural (if you ask me its one of the most misunderstood and toxic myths in modern history) the state must always be there to "level the playing field" - with women being >50% of the overall human population is there any wonder why the development of feminism was parrelled by the growth of the state? Think voting blocs and voting for special privledges. As such, like with all things the state messes up, they have actually suceeded in creating the very thing they said they were trying to eradicate...using feminist's definitions there is no doubt today that there is an acute climate of institutional and systemic sexism, the only thing is that this sexism is directed towards men. Consider, whereas women once claimed (and still claim this BTW), that companies, golf clubs, schools etc discriminated against them because they were not included, today, men (in Europe as well as america) because hiring qoutas, affirmative action, diversity guidelines and mandates are being not inclued, so what does that say? Anyone? Show of hands? Yes, right, they're being discriminated against or otherwise suffering from sexism, but worse, are forced to pay for this discrimination by way of taxation (again this all comes from the state telling the private sector, essentially, who to hire). And, how are things going since modern women has been empowered? Spain, for instance, prior to 2008 boasted about thier "proportionality" of women in high levels of government...how have things been going for them since then? What about for the rest of europe and america. Exactly.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 12:17 | 3642419 Herd Redirectio...
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I just think someone screwed up explaining what EQUAL means (to feminists).  "Being IDENTICAL in value. "

I guess thats why "Equal but different" had to be repeated so heavily.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 13:25 | 3642716 Dull Care
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Amen. Feminism has been an absolute disaster for society.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 14:48 | 3643090 kareninca
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bluskyes, big time colleges now have quotas for women, because high school females have much better grades and scores than guys.  But the colleges don't want to have 60-70 percent women, so they let in stupider, lazier young men, and reject smarter, harder working young women.  It is extremely unjust.  Their big fear is that if they have so many females, they'll all be competing for the guys  -  which may be true, but not a reason to discriminate.

Maybe the girls can't beat guys on a football field, but they beat them academically.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 21:20 | 3644489 bluskyes
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"Maybe the girls can't beat guys on a football field, but they beat them academically." That's a pretty broad, unqualified statement. Care to back it up with some evidence?

Tue, 06/11/2013 - 00:05 | 3644947 kareninca
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Here you go:  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/college-admissions/how-m.h...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/18/education-gender-gap-boys_n_863...

By the way, I'm not claiming that girls are innately smarter than boys.  I think any differences in acheivement are due to the ability to sit still and conform, and the desire to achieve, which girls (in today's society) have to a greater degree than boys.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 14:43 | 3643060 kareninca
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"Men are better workers than women in all circumstances" Towgunner???

Even the people I know who are most into gender roles, think that women are much better at taking care of kids and the elderly and as therapists and nurses and schoolteachers and homemakers.

Or are those activities not work?  I suggest that you read "Mothers of the South," by Margaret Jaman Hagood.  it describes the toil of Southern white tenant farm women.  You cannot IMAGINE how hard those women worked in the home and in the fields (of course, they had to since they had about 25 kids each). 

Tue, 06/11/2013 - 17:13 | 3647793 Towgunner
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No arguement there.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 10:04 | 3641937 docj
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I keep getting these "Suggested Articles" on LinkedIn and Google+ about how "women are under-represented in science and engineering firms" yadda yadda yadda and that this is supposedly a "call to action" and whatnot.

What is never, ever stated in any of these articles is why I'm supposed to give a darn that "women are under-represented in science and engineering firms". Or anywhere else for that matter. It sort of cools my motivation to DO SOMETHING!!!!! when I have no idea why I'm supposed to care about this or that in the first place.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 12:20 | 3642430 Herd Redirectio...
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It would appear they are doing too good of a job selecting employees on merit.  More men interested in the field = more men in the field!  Shocking, I know.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 10:07 | 3641948 mickeyman
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The image reminds of me of looking down the toilet after my last bender.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 10:16 | 3641970 Towgunner
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Okay...feminism, and for that matter, trying to "equalize" outcomes IS malinvestment. women have not magically "flowered' and all of a sudden revealed themselves as the final gift to humanity and as being widely more 'superior' (thier words) to men...we know this is not the case because for eons this was never true and if women really are the much better they would have ascended a long time ago...they didn't so, what's that tell you. Moreover, just like in the u.s. the reason why men aren't finding jobs as easy as women etc, is because women have political protection, period end of story. So this is really a story about the state, once again, becoming involved in things they shouldn't.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 15:04 | 3643153 kareninca
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Towgunner, women didn't "ascend" long ago, becaue they had no access to good contraception.  So they were stuck taking care of babies for most of their short lives.  If you look at the biographies of great writers, they all had a wife or some other female to do their sh** work.

Now that women don't have to be constantly popping out babies (thank God in a world of 7 billion humans)(and no, I'm not in favor of abortion), women ARE ascending.  Look at Science Daily and check out how many of the researchers are female.  Females are better than men at academic pursuits.

You seem to forget that it was only recently that women were ALLOWED to become doctors or lawyers or scientists.  They were actually banned from those fields until the 1920s or so, and then de facto banned until the 1960s.  You can't exactly blame them for not flourishing, in fields they were not allowed to enter.

You have real issues with female achievement.  Hope you don't have any daughters.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 21:42 | 3644562 bluskyes
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Women also enjoyed the benefits of not being legal persons, such being invulnerable to the legal fictions of commercial courts.

Tue, 06/11/2013 - 00:15 | 3644964 kareninca
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Yeah, great benefit.

In the New England mill towns during the early industrial days, plenty of working women would hide from their dissolate husbands on payday, because they (the wives) had no legal right to their own wages.  The husbands could take them from them with legal impunity.  The women wanted to feed their kids, and the husbands would grab the money and drink it away.

Of course there were many excellent husbands, too, but of course that's not the point.

 

Tue, 06/11/2013 - 18:35 | 3648115 bluskyes
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Right, of course a romance novel wouldn't sell if the wife was a psychotic drunk, who heaped abuse upon her husband, and children.

Tue, 06/11/2013 - 15:13 | 3647264 Towgunner
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Ha, you loser. Its as though you were reading right out of your 'women's studies' textbook. Guess I struck a nerve, happens when truth gets in the way of your ego. Unlike you, I don't consider the 1920's to be recent, but, since you brought it up my grandmother graduated from Douglas College around that time (now Rutgers) in three years mind you (no gender adjusted curriculum) and played on the basketball team...she'd run circles around a entitlement c*nt like you and for that matter the majority of women today. This ban you speak of isn't accurate, but it is typical of the doublespeak gibberish coming out of ws majors. women did enter into fields that feminsm and women's studies described as closed, in fact, there are numerous examples of that and as a women's studies major I'm sure you're well aware of them. The issue isn't whether they were banned, discourage or whatever you want to think, the issue is frequency...specifically, that throughout history women are not major contributors. And that makes you sad and since you're a narcissists along with the rest of women you want to be special too. You make note of all the female scientists and how women are finally liberated with the pill and blah blah blah. If what you say is true why is barry the potus about to implement forced female proportionality in STEM? Why? Where are all the superior female engineers? Oh, right, they have to be forcibly included...but why? Could it be that 1. they don't really have the aptitude for it and 2. they just aren't interested? For that matter why feminized the curriculum, why do we still have title 9 (I believe) that mandates proportion female inclusion in college (1970s legislation)...same thing for women's sports? Why? The pill had beed around for at least 20 years by the 70's? Truth is women need the state to help them ascend, so you need help, in fact the useless diversity hire over at facebook, the female CFO, even said it in her book "...we all need help". Correction, women need help and weak people need help...the great luminaries of history all endured ridicule and seemingly insurmountable odds, ahem, and they succeeded without any help. I don't have issues with female achievement; I have issues with false achievement and unfounded achievement, because that is unfair to the people that really went the distance. If we took away all the support systems just for women, not just affirmative action but the drugging of boys in school and public schools evil policy to feminize boys and masculinize girls...guess what, pill or no pill men would be doing exceptionally well. Say what you want about women in college, I already established the policy of inclusion, but consider that education has turned into a huge scam (hmmm women in education, now we have corruption and scam)...that bubble will burst. I think education will become very customizable and offered online...gone will be the days of indoctrination camps that push envious and malicious ideologies like feminism...honestly you had your chance. Oh and how is the country and Europe doing with all these empowered women...exactly. I grew up "disadvantaged", poor and on top of that dyslexic...I could have reached out for a number of entitlements, but choose not to. The reason I didn't is because I knew that I would never view any success afterwards as genuine. women on the other hand...whew, give me a break.

Loser.

 

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 10:29 | 3642037 Typing Typer
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I think this is largely because there are more men working than women. So when jobs are lost system wide, then more men will necessarily be cut than women.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 12:22 | 3642447 Herd Redirectio...
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The bigger aspect is which sectors have been affected by recession so far.

The 'risky' male industries of finance, construction, manufacturing, etc. were hard hit and only finance has recovered (and even that is a mirage-like recovery). 

Government, health care, education, service sector, have been affected much less. In fact, who are the only people hiring (not just replacing) has been.... Government.

That will change, because governments have (as always) promised more than they can deliver.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 10:42 | 3642076 Savvy
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Last summer I was awarded a contract with a large forest licencee. Low girl on the totem pole and all. Seems the two ahead of me won't be called back, I produced double by myself what those two men did between them and I didn't half try. I didn't half try because they put a lot of energy into me NOT working. Rather than whining try working guys, or at least let those who want to work do their job.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 10:55 | 3642139 SpiceMustFlow
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and? you are probably an above average worker up against two lazy assholes. what semicompetent, semimotivated person wouldn't win out in that situation? 

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:04 | 3642169 Harbanger
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This is another example of discrimination.  They have her doing twice the work for the same pay.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:12 | 3642202 Buckaroo Banzai
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She was stupid enough to do twice the work...

Anyways judging from the spelling it looks like she's from Merrie Olde England, or Canada... Actual men have not been spotted in those places in decades.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:21 | 3642224 Harbanger
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If I lived in Merrie Olde England or Canada, I'd run to her when the SHTF.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 14:54 | 3643112 kareninca
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Great, BB, first we're told that women are lazy and can't work as hard as men.

Then we're told that when they do work even harder, they are fools to do so.

 

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 21:45 | 3644572 bluskyes
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"Actual men have not been spotted in those places in decades." Them's fightin' words.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:43 | 3642287 Towgunner
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Who do you think your talking to? women forcibly insist that they be "included" into the workforce and now we have people like you gloating about how your such a big strong worker. Get this punk, I come from a broken family and have been working my entire life. I worked along side illegal imigrants in the middle of summer in Florida literally digging ditches, I now routinely put in at least 12 hours a day. I am working myself into an early grave like my Grandfather. Since my grandfather was a man, was he also complacent too? He never took a vacation in his professional career and his only time-off was to go to church on Sunday's? Zerohedge is not a community of passive little grass eaters, I suspect many more people have similiar stories. If you really think you're that "bad" then call your congressman or, better yet, woman and tell them to stop all female privledge. Because after all women like you don't need help, right?

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 14:48 | 3643028 kareninca
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Towgunner, you are choosing to work as hard as you are working.  Why were you working digging ditches when you are obviously (from your post) literate?  Why the hell didn't you get a job at McDonald's instead?  Were you looking for the most brutal possible job?

I'm not saying it's a bad thing, but it's your choice, and you should take responsibiliity for it.  You don't have to "work yourself into an early grave," working 12 hour days.  If it makes you angry that you are doing that, stop doing it.  This is America, your family won't starve if you have one; they'd probably rather have you around more than have the money.

My male relatives/ancestors all worked hard, but none of them took as little time off as your grandfather.  They would have thought that was silly; why give up your entire life to toil?

Maybe you just LIKE to work all the time.  If so, don't get all riled up by people who work less, as long as they're self-sufficient.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 18:30 | 3643934 Harbanger
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 "This is America, your family won't starve if you have one; they'd probably rather have you around more than have the money."

That tells it all.  It's fools like him that are the problem, God bless America.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 19:38 | 3644161 kareninca
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Actually yes, people who are workaholics and feel self-righteous about it and rage at other people because they aren't, are a problem.

I have a neighbor like that.  All she does is work.  And it MADDENS her that everyone else doesn't work 24/7.  She sees me sitting around reading 19th century novels and goes stiff with rage.

Employers just love people like that.  Slave labor.  And there are a lot of wannabe slaves out there; many humans are designed to work constantly, addicted to it.

I didn't say people shouldn't work and produce and support their families.  However, they also be self aware and if they are gyping their families, or giving their employers more than is reasonable, to hell with that.

 

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:27 | 3642245 Aurora Ex Machina
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Mainly because of how they arranged the countries, though.  They could have just used a standard line graph to compare.  I am a big fan of 'seeing the golden mean' though.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 13:26 | 3642715 Aurora Ex Machina
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They "might" do it deliberately, as a signature to their art.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:52 | 3642318 q99x2
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The end is near.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 14:18 | 3642927 Diogenes
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"If You're An Unemployed European Man, Become A Woman"

 

I thought they already were.

Mon, 06/10/2013 - 15:00 | 3643140 NEOSERF
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Trannytrain coming to your town bitchez!

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