The main point of German's constant freetime has its roots during the 1930s and the concept of "Freizeitgenuss." It's basically the thought that work isn't the end all of life and you actually should take sometime to yourself to enjoy the pleasures, the one's outside your cubicle. Enter islands like Ruegen

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But dont you want to be known as a good person, and a well known person who actually did something for society? Or some other person that died and no one actually cares about because all of his life all he cared about was himself and getting drunk on his appartment.

Taken from the context of your arguement, owning a company = good person? Are we talking good from a moral standpoint, or should you drop the whole "good" label and say "wealthy." But I guess you are the sum of your mansion and ferrari aye?

But I guess you can't really expect anything else from a 17 year old Capitalist.

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Originally posted by matheusoc we have the best football (soccer) team/players so, STFU

We'll see bout that...

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Originally posted by Kapedan I know I do have one life to live, and I don't want to waste it with stupid things and actually make something out of it. Become rich and wealthy and contribute something back to society. The thing is that people are different. Some are leaders, who work hard to get somewhere high in life, and the rest..well like you mentioned, they live for the moment. I do not like to live the moment. I like to think ahead and I like to plan things out. I do not want to waste my time with things that will only waste me time. I do have fun, when I need to have fun. But at my age, I need to work and study, because its the only time in life where I can do that. Maybe your conception of living is that you have fun..and all your life you work for a company 40 hours a week. Well I'm different. If i had the chance to work more, I would because I dont want to work for this company, I want to own it. So one day, when I have everything else in line, I can fly with private jets and yatchs, etc etc. Dont think that I will be 60 when I do this, I can do this when im 35 or even 40, which is a perfect time to enjoy it. That will make me happy, and I'm sure you wouldnt mind too, but you just dont want to take that road, thats where it seperates us.

More than 40 hours a week?! Sod that!! We have laws in the EU to prevent things like that!!

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Originally posted by Lepanto ok since when can u not do shit when ur under 21? lol. oh ok i guess the fact that the europeans can drink themselves silly is a GOOD thing.

Yes, yes it is a good thing

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Originally posted by Kapedan I will give it away to people who need it and make thier life better. But why to you take in consideration death anyways? Why dont you compare the lifestyle that I will have with money, and the lifestyle you will have without money.

So Americans have money and Europeans dont? Well leaving the obvious aside that that is a load of crap, lets think about the poverty rates between the EU and America...

And within the EU itself, the highest poverty rate is in the UK, the country with the American style economy...

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Originally posted by George Smiley Yes, yes it is a good thing

for alcoholics, yes you're right.

as to other comments, do you even THINK before posting?

the UK poverty line = 17 percent

the US = 12.

not to mention that the population is larger and much more diverse. so you have to look at ALL of Europe or EU to compare to America. And yes America is ALOT richer. and the average population below poverty line...yep you guessed it about 18 percent...MORE THAN THE US!

the US has a GDP just barely lower than EU but per capita EU falls way short at only 26,000.

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Originally posted by Lepanto for alcoholics, yes you're right.

Actually, the American system is good for alcoholics while the European system is good for responsible citizens that can somewhat handle alcohol.

2% of the population shouldn't ruin the fun for the rest.

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Originally posted by St_Andrew Actually, the American system is good for alcoholics while the European system is good for responsible citizens that can somewhat handle alcohol. 2% of the population shouldn't ruin the fun for the rest.

based on what exectly? yeah poland bulgaria, romania, ukraine, russia don't drink at all

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Originally posted by Lepanto based on what exectly? yeah poland bulgaria, romania, ukraine, russia don't drink at all

I didn't say they didn't drink, there is a difference between drinking and being an alcoholic. Liberal drinking laws are good for the normal ppl, but bad for the ones that can't handle alcohol (the alcoholics). Get what I mean?

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Originally posted by St_Andrew I didn't say they didn't drink, there is a difference between drinking and being an alcoholic. Liberal drinking laws are good for the normal ppl, but bad for the ones that can't handle alcohol (the alcoholics). Get what I mean?

right and europe is full of alcoholics so what's your point?

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Originally posted by Lepanto right and europe is full of alcoholics so what's your point?

The world is full of alcoholics whats your point?