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germany is only 10% or so behind the US in terms of PPP. They also have more vacation, fewer layoffs, cheaper housing, generally lower cost of living (by more than 10%), and many other things.

Perhaps they made a different trade off, more leisure, less work?

I've only brought up the two most obvious examples (there many others) that negate entirely that silly notion that somehow human rights are incompatible with technological advancement, which borders on hate speech.

I mean, should we really go back to slavery to become space-faring species? Not the kind of future I want to live in.