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American living in the European Lowlands; self-employed @thejunteau @thegoodsletter
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Joined December 2020
Here’s the thing about the “matrix escapee” expat life I talk about. The self-employed consultants, the SMB owners, the fractional professional services people, the independent operators... People assume they’re super wealthy “elites” yet that’s far from the case. Most are not
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This is how a former Jeep Gladiator Mojave owner from the US now gets his Christmas tree in the Netherlands with his family.
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Great message. People don’t want to work hard anymore to improve their situation.
That look is dope. Do hard things.
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Same I’ve had this bookmarked for years
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A friend of mine told me today that his company (a large global consulting firm) is no longer considering hiring Dutch employees... as well as moving away from a few other European countries, possibly Germany and France. The reason is that it's so hard to fire people and
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¿Por qué tanta gente interpreta esta publicación como un juicio negativo o moral? La ética calvinista puritana tiene serios problemas, y deberíamos aprender de la mentalidad mediterránea. ¿Será demasiada emoción o dolor pasado lo que provoque tal defensa?
No entiendo porque se nos infravalora a los países latinos cuando casi todo lo bueno en este mundo lo hemos construido nosotros. Cuando en Inglaterra se mataban entre ellos, en Grecia se debatía sobre Filosofía, Matemáticas o Ciencia. Cuando en Inglaterra se vivía en chabolas
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Living in Europe as an American has put me in front of so many fascinating people... and maybe because I’m one of those self-employed “matrix escapers,” I naturally end up in the social orbit of other matrix escapers. What’s wild is how consistently I keep meeting the same
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I really did not expect to trigger people who are offended by the very obvious orientation southern Europeans have *in general* towards sociability and leisure relative to the more industrialized Northern European areas. It’s not a bad thing. I actually love it. That’s the
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Reactions to this post are fascinating. Some insecurities are revealed in the reactions.. reacting to a perceived tone or opinion that’s not even there. This was not an opinion, or a judgment of one being “better” than the other… but an observation based on a general truth
Mediterranean people, generally speaking, just want to have fun. It’s a Northern European phenomenon… directly attributed to Protestantism.. that prioritized work, structure, and committee governance over leisure. That mentality then transferred itself to the North American
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Some folks point to the colder climates or poorer soils of northern Europe as the reason Protestantism and the later Puritan/Calvinist “work ethic” emerged. It's true they mattered, but not in the way people assume. They didn’t cause Protestantism. What they did was amplify and
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Some folks point to the colder climates or poorer soils of northern Europe as the reason Protestantism and the later Puritan/Calvinist “work ethic” emerged. It's true they mattered, but not in the way people assume. They didn’t cause Protestantism. What they did was amplify and
Mediterranean people, generally speaking, just want to have fun. It’s a Northern European phenomenon… directly attributed to Protestantism.. that prioritized work, structure, and committee governance over leisure. That mentality then transferred itself to the North American
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Looking at old photos and came across one with my wife being forced to wear a mask at an apple orchard with our one year old. What a ridiculous era. What’s your most insane COVID story?
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I spent a decent chunk of my time today (nerd) analyzing US population projections out to 2050... and explaining how we got here in extreme detail. Will link to the full @thegoodsletter piece.
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Mediterranean people, generally speaking, just want to have fun. It’s a Northern European phenomenon… directly attributed to Protestantism.. that prioritized work, structure, and committee governance over leisure. That mentality then transferred itself to the North American
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