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Yes, but it does make your currency look like toy money from a three year old's make believe shop

It is make believe anyway so I guess that's rather appropriate

Ryujin wrote:QUOTE (Ryujin @ Jan 21 2013, 08:43 AM) well the fed regularly destroys and prints money all the time. not saying inflation isn't a bitch, and overprinting money does add to inflation, but theoretically the crisp one is replacing a crased, folded, dogeared torn one. though i'm sure they print more than they destroy

Only a small fraction of the money supply is ever circulating in the form of banknotes anyways.

Oh and about striking - some skilled trades really can't. Ie consider paramedics. People die if they do that. It goes against their ethos - but a man's gotta get paid... Fortunately most healthcare providers are paid for the most part adequately...

There's some truth in that article. It picked up on the healthcare & low levels of holiday, which are the two things which have made me sure that I never want to live there. Everyone seems to like moaning about heir country but the UK isn't that bad really.

Gandalf2 wrote:QUOTE (Gandalf2 @ Jan 23 2013, 02:20 AM) picked up on the healthcare & low levels of holiday, which are the two things which have made me sure that I never want to live there.

Funnily enough from a Nordic perspective the holidays are not good in the UK, since you can't get more than a week at a time without negotiating it specially with your boss. (or so people tell me anyway)

It's all relative, isn't it.

Yes but you live in a land without Sun!

HSharp wrote:QUOTE (HSharp @ Jan 23 2013, 04:06 PM) Yes but you live in a land without Sun!

I guess people need to get away for a few weeks every year. That's a fair points.

Adept wrote:QUOTE (Adept @ Jan 23 2013, 11:10 AM) Funnily enough from a Nordic perspective the holidays are not good in the UK, since you can't get more than a week at a time without negotiating it specially with your boss. (or so people tell me anyway)

It's all relative, isn't it.

That's a misconception - two weeks is the standard issue summer holiday and is never a problem to arrange (beyond ensuring office cover etc). In most work places you have to negotiate when leave is taken to ensure continuity of service but there's rarely a problem with actually taking it.

Education: 200$ cost for 5yrs for Msc in mechanical engineering.

Work:I have 33 workdays for vacation(40 is max)+5 holidays+10 days of 70% payed holiday+ if I’d have some work related illness I would have 10 day treatment in the spa.

But I work in a coal mine as a maintenance engineer.
100% covered healthcare for me and family.
40hrs/week
2months/yr shortened pensioning age.

Wife has minimum 1yr maternity leave, max 2yrs for first 2 children each, min 3yrs for 3rd

All this in Europes worst economy.