Germany and other European countries have good welfare and living standards. Why?

In fact, Germany can only rank second, the first is the Netherlands, with the shortest working hours but the highest income in the world. The Dutch only work four days a week, and the average working hours in a year exceed 1300 hours. Work out how many hours a day.

Many things in the Netherlands rely on machinery and have a high degree of automation. In fact, it is also true in many parts of Europe. For example, in some videos, the automatic bricklaying machine can pave the whole road with three people and one machine, and the building is modular and can be transported to the destination for installation. Flowers are the main export commodities in the Netherlands, and Dutch agriculture is also highly automated. A person can manage a large flower field on a large scale through some agricultural machinery, and the logistics is also automated, exporting170,000 flowers to the world every day.

The Dutch garbage collection is also highly automated. On the surface, the trash can is small, but there is a huge garbage storage space under the trash can. When the garbage truck comes, workers only need to control the garbage truck. The garbage truck has a mechanical device, similar to the hydraulic rod of an excavator, to load the whole underground garbage into the garbage truck and transport it away. Workers don't even have to get off the bus, and their hands can't touch the trash can at all. The whole process was completed by one person in a minute or two. . . .

And those countries in Europe have very strict immigration management. If they don't get a local work permit, they are not allowed to work, so no one grabs the job, which is extremely efficient and highly mechanized. Therefore, some teachers say that some countries in Europe have already had the embryonic form of socialism. To put it bluntly, productivity is highly developed, and many things are mechanized, intelligent and automated. People can create great value as long as they work four days a week easily. . .

To put it bluntly, it is efficient, and hard work is not as smart as it is. ....

Besides, some countries in Europe have minimum wages or standard working hours and laws to protect workers. For example, the boss can't call after work to ask about the work of employees, otherwise it is illegal to work overtime without paying overtime, or even can't call after a certain working time. There is also the time spent on the way to and from work, and the salary is paid as usual. These measures ensure the income of ordinary people, just like Hong Kong. A few years ago, when it was said that the minimum wage would be implemented, a large number of bosses said that they could not stand it, and there would be a wave of graduation, which would kill many enterprises. As a result, the minimum wage was implemented, and the income of ordinary people increased, which stimulated consumption, but the profits of enterprises and the income of the government also increased.

Therefore, policy is also a very important reason, not only the welfare policy is good, but also the labor policies of some workers and white-collar workers must match. After so many supporting policies keep up, enterprises have to find ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, so as mentioned above, many machines have been introduced to indirectly improve a person's productivity and productivity.

Let's give a counterexample. For example, in India, there is no minimum wage guarantee below the wages of workers. Human resources in disguise are very cheap, so cheap that rich people would rather wash their clothes by hand than put them in the washing machine. Many hotels and rich people like to take their clothes to the laundry, while Indian laundry is basically hand-washed. This is because the price of manual washing is cheaper than that of home washing machine, but electric washing is more expensive than manual washing.

As a result, the income of Indian laundry workers is very low, and there is basically no rest day in a week, so they can only struggle to survive on the food and clothing line.

Therefore, welfare and living standards are closely related to productivity, laws and regulations, education and other factors. Europe is mainly characterized by advanced productive forces, good labor laws, many immigration restrictions and a series of supporting facilities. Today, like the Netherlands, the working hours are short and the per capita income is the highest in the world. . . But productivity and laws and regulations are the key. . .