As an employee, who gets up first compared with your boss? Who earns more? Who has more free time? In addition, are high benefits really that good?

Due to thousands of years of ideological education, we have always been overly obsessed with a unified country. Of course, safeguarding the peaceful reunification of the motherland is the basic responsibility of every citizen. However, in many aspects, this will lead us into some misunderstandings. As everyone knows, there are many small countries in Europe, forming the European Union, a loose communist community. In addition, most European countries have small governments, and the people's rights are often very large.

Where does high welfare come from?

Most European countries are small in area, but in terms of per capita income, infrastructure construction and other aspects of people's livelihood, Europe not only leads our country in many aspects, but even the world's hegemon, the United States, may not be able to match it.

European countries have also experienced industrial upgrading. High-end manufacturing with high added value can continue locally, while more labor-intensive, high-pollution and high-energy-consuming industries have long been transferred to developing countries. However, The interests are still controlled by itself.

Paris is a world-renowned fashion capital; Swiss watchmaking is world-famous; Nokia is from Finland; Norway has oil and fishing, and it is extremely rich just selling salmon; London, England is still One of the international financial centers; the ancient city of Rome has explored its own cultural and historical advantages to build itself into a tourist attraction.

If you want the country to develop and the economy to become stronger, you must develop an export-oriented economy. It is best to have both ends outside, not giving any of your own resources, but only giving all the virtual ones, such as brand, creativity, management, and patents. , culture, etc., and then earn foreign exchange, purely making money from outside. As long as their products sell well all over the world, their culture is sought after by the world, and their technology can charge patent fees, people all over the world can support such a small group of citizens.

No country can be rich without borrowing from the outside. Relying solely on internal circulation and self-produced food is a peasant lifestyle, which will inevitably lead to poverty and hardship.

China, Japan and South Korea are definitely at the top of the list of the hardest-working countries in the world. East Asian countries have developed the fastest in the world in recent decades, because they work non-stop, mainly for export, selling high-quality and low-priced goods all over the world, making small profits but quick turnover, and occupying the market.

China's economy has been undergoing a transformation. From the past criticized copycats, plagiarism, and Made in China, to the leapfrog development of China Internet and other emerging technology companies, technological achievements have penetrated into the base camp of Silicon Valley.

The Netherlands’ welfare is the most domineering

The Netherlands’ welfare is the highest among European countries. The average Dutch only needs to work 4 days a week, and the average working hours a year is only 1,300 hours. The average is only 3.6 hours a day. Why are Dutch workers so "blessed"?

The Dutch industry relies on machinery and is highly automated, which is similar to other places in Europe. Basically, when it can be done by machine, manpower will not be used. The most exported thing from the Netherlands is flowers. Flower cultivation in the Netherlands is also a mechanized operation. One person can manage a large flower field by controlling the machinery.

Logistics is also automated, so the Netherlands can export 17 million flowers to the world every day, allowing Dutch workers to earn a considerable income.

Many leaders in Europe have more or less the temperament of a white lotus. Perhaps due to the influence of World War II, Germany and France are willing to accept many refugees. There was also a commotion in our country some time ago, which led to Massive demonstrations by people in the country. It really doesn’t make sense for the government to use money to support a group of restless foreigners, and in the end it’s the locals who have to pay for it.

Some European countries such as the Netherlands have very strict immigration management. It can be said that there are almost no "immigration countries" in the traditional sense in Europe. If you do not obtain a local work permit, you are not allowed to work, so No one is competing for jobs, and the work efficiency is extremely high and highly mechanized.

To put it simply, Europe has highly developed productivity and few people, so it only takes an easy four-day work week to create huge value.

The opposite of Europe is developing countries, such as India now.

It is recognized that wages in India are low, there is no minimum wage, and because there are so many people, human resources are cheap. Rich people would rather wash their clothes manually than buy a washing machine. Therefore, laundry factories in India basically all wash by hand. This is because the price of hand washing is cheaper than the electricity bill of washing in your own home washing machine. Electric washing is more expensive than manual washing.

Since then, the income of laundry workers has been very, very low. Even if they work seven days a week, they can only struggle to survive on the line of food and clothing.

Is high welfare really that good?

The source of funds for high welfare is often high taxes or high debt, which is not conducive to sustainable economic and social development.

Sweden’s high welfare relies on high taxes and high fiscal deficits; Greece’s high welfare is supported by high debt. Using high taxes to support high welfare will inevitably reduce enterprise development funds and restrict enterprise development, which is tantamount to killing the goose that lays the eggs.

The utilization rate of social security resources under high welfare is not high, such as the waste of medicines and other medical resources in public medical care; some people who could be employed but are not actively employed are overly enjoying the benefits brought by social security and unemployment insurance. Come leisure, and choose to retire early.

Once these phenomena become widespread, social resources are severely wasted, and the national spirit is no longer positive, it will affect economic development.

Democracy has plunged European countries into the quagmire of "high welfare". This issue becomes clear when we talk about Greece.

The bankruptcy of Greece's high welfare is basically the following process:

Financial shortage, unable to make ends meet; no money for high welfare; the government wants to reduce welfare; voters do not agree, If you want to reduce welfare, I will vote you out; in this way, in order not to step down, the government can only continue to provide high welfare; without money to raise welfare, the government can only borrow debt; the borrowed money can only be used for welfare and cannot develop industry. ; Over time, the government will go bankrupt.

To put it bluntly, any president who dares to increase welfare will be voted out of office by the democratic national system. This deadlock has blocked almost all European countries that are trying to cut welfare.

Since the Industrial Revolution, European countries have obtained huge national dividends through different means through technological leadership.

After that, democratic voters continued to obtain a variety of huge high benefits through voting, and at the same time, they also continued to reduce working hours. In this case, no matter how big the gold mountain is, it will be eaten up.

European countries that maintain high welfare are bound to undergo major changes in the future, because this high-welfare democratic system has endangered the operation of the state machinery.

Is it possible for Europeans who are accustomed to democracy, vacations, and beaches to work hard and receive low benefits?

When you have money, democracy can be a happy place for you and me.

So, what about when you have no money?

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