Why Germans Work Fewer Hours But Produce More: A Study In Culture hen Sea North SeaWhen many Americans think of Germany, images of WWII soldiers and Hitler °44 often come to mind. But what many people don't realize is that Germany is the industrial powerhouse of Europe, and is a leading manufacturer of goods for export to developing Asian nations. We don't hear about the superiority of German engineering in Volkswagen commercials for nothing! The economic engine of the EU, Germany single-handedly saved the Eurozone from collapse in 2012, At the same time, German workers enjoy unparalleled worker protections and shorter working hours than most of their global counterparts. How can a country that works an average of 35 hours per week (with an average 24 paid vacation days to boot) maintain such a high level of productivity? Hi there! Knote publishes great ideas for how to be more productive every day. Get on the mailing list for the Best Of. And sign up for Knotable, the app we made that lets you bring people and messages together in one place — so you have fewer meetings, less email, and you can get back to work. Working Hours Mean Working Hours In German business culture, when an employee is at work, they should not be doing anything other than their work. Facebook, office gossip with co-workers, trolling Reddit for hours, and pulling up a fake spreadsheet when your boss walks by are socially unacceptable behaviors. Obviously, in the United States these behaviors are frowned up on by management. But in Germany, there is zero tolerance among peers for such frivolous activities. In the BBC documentary “Make Me A German", a young German woman. explained her culture shock while on a working exchange to the UK.“I was in England for an exchange... I was in the office and the people are talking all the time about their private things... ‘What's the plan for tonight?’, and all the time drinking coffee...” She was quite surprised by the casual nature of British workers. Upon further discussion, the Germans reveal that Facebook is not allowed in the office whatsoever, and no private email is permitted. Goal-Oriented, Direct Communication Is Valued German business culture is one of intense focus and direct communication. While Americans tend to value small talk and maintaining an upbeat atmosphere, Germans rarely beat around the bush. German workers will directly speak toa manager about performance reviews, launch into a business meeting without any ‘icebreakers’, and use commanding language without softening the directives withpolite phrases, Whereas an American would say, “It would be great if you could get this to me by 3pm," a German would say, “I need this by 3pm”. When a German is at work, they are focused and diligent, which in turn leads to higher productivity in a shorter period of time. Germans Have a Life Outside Work Germans work hard and play hard. Since the working day is focused on delivering efficient productivity, the off hours are truly off hours. Because of the focused atmosphere and formal environment of German businesses, employees don't necessarily hang out together after work. Germans generally value a separation between private life and working life. The German government is currently considering a ban on work-related emails after 6pm, to counter the accessibility that smartphones and constant connectivity give employers to their employees, Can you imagine President Obama enacting such a policy in the United States?To occupy their plentiful Freizeit, most Germans are involved in Verein (clubs); regularly meeting others with shared interests in their community. Cornmon interests in Germany include Sportvereine (sports clubs), Gesangvereine (choirs or singing clubs), Musikvereine (music clubs), Wandervereine (hiking clubs), Tierzuchtvereine (animal breeding clubs - generally rabbits/pigeons) and collectors’ clubs of all stripes. Even the smallest village in Germany will have several active Vereinen to accornmodate residents’ interests. Rather than settling in for a night of TV after work, most Germans socialize with others in their community and cultivate themselves as people. Germans also enjoy a high number of paid vacation days, with many salaried employees receiving 25-30 paid days (the law requires 20). Extended holidays mean families can enjoy up to a month together, renting an apartment by the seaside or taking a long trip to a new, exciting city. Business Respects ParenthoodGermany's system of Elternzeit (‘parent time” or parental leave) is the stuff of fantasy for most working Americans. The United States does not currently have laws requiring maternity leave, while Germany has some of the most extensive parental protection policies in the developed world. The downside of these maternity leave benefits is that employers may avoid hiring women (with the fear that they will take advantage of the extensive benefits), and German boardrooms are consistently male-dominated at a higher rate than other developed nations, although the government is working to eradicate this trend. The financial benefits of staying home (from both Elternzeit and Elterngeld or parents’ money programs) are often too good to pass up for German mothers, and can lead to stagnant or non- existent careers. Since “at will” employment does not exist in Germany, all employees have contracts with their employer. Parents who have been gainfully employed for the previous 12 months are eligible for Elternzeit benefits, which include up to three years of unpaid leave with a “sleeping” contract. The employee is eligible to work part-time up to 30 hours while on leave, and must be offered full-time employment at the conclusion of the parental leave. Parents may also choose to postpone up to one year of their leave until the child’s 8th birthday. Either parent is eligible for parental leave, and many couples make the choice based on financial considerations. In addition to the preservation of the employee's contract, the state will pay up 67% of the employee's salary (with a cap of 1800 Euros per month) for 14 months. Parents may split the 14 months however they choose. These benefits apply equally to same-sex couples. Have you picked your jaw up off the floor yet?Put Some German In Your Office The German work culture is very different from the average American office, but there are certainly lessons to be learned from our German counterparts. The diligent focus Germans bring to their working life is to be admired. Separating work from play can help us lead a more balanced life; putting the phone down after hours gives us a mental break from stressing about work, and we can return to the office refreshed in the morning. When it's time to get something done, closing Facebook and turning off push notifications helps keep our minds quiet and the flow steady. Direct conversation can lead to increased efficiency, and more clarity of cornmunication among team members. Americans often equate longer hours with increased production and superior work ethic, but examining the German model makes one wonder: When it comes to timeat work, maybe less really is more! x Want more Productivity hack: Sign-up for free and be the first to get notified about new updates. [Enter your email address | Don’t worry, we hate spam too! You can unsubscribe at anytime. powered by MailMunch jg Eryn Paul e November 10, 2014 + Previous Post Noxt Post —» You're Biased. You don't know it - and Want To Become a More Efficient Writer? hurting your efficiency Consider The Writing Hacks of These Famous Authors 321Comments — Knote.com @ Login Sort by Best Share 2 Favorite @ sein the ciscussion = e Barbara Nuffer This article states the truth. I can't imagine ever living in the US again, Life is too good here in Germany. The Germans work hard and play hard, They know how to live. Conditions are| have a permanent contract. I'd have to do something very serious or illegal to get fired. First they would have to give me two written warnings. Our health insurance policies cover 100% of our health care; we do, though, have to pay alittle bit for prescription drugs. 38: + Reply + Shar @) Rovin + BarberanNuter + 7 day @ Nem Adak Pcaye0 Season @m™. Thatis exactly what | said in the paragraph you replied. Current workers don't pay for the benefits of old people, old people have already paid their retirement benefits. At least this is what it should be in a functioning economy, but if there is such one Germany must be it e- << _ you are wrong, The German retirement system is based on a "Generatiosn Contract” not on a fund based plan. The reason is that after WW2 all money was worthless and most houses had been destroyed. In order to pay for some pensions the current working class has to pay for the old people. And while the 50% tax rate is the one thing you have to pay a shit load on other social wealth fare. Therefore you need to make a lot more in order to get “more than you need". Most Germans are wealthy but not rich and the whole political class tries to make being pour ok but forgets how to make wealty people rich. However rich people are super well off because once you really have a plus you have tons of ways to avoid more taxes 7 + Reply + Shar ian Kunert > Nazim Acaklh « x jcan > Nazim Adakit + 19 hours ag @ _ theloaicatam = For all the qreat qrandstanding of the German pension system, mostpeople don't understand that the Average German pension is less than the Average Social Security check of Social Security by about $400 bucks a month and that living cost are about 30% higher in Germany than the US, Inconvient truths. 1 + Reply + Share > onetinkerbell Pcayce « 4 daysage Widows in the US get benefits from their deceased spouse's social security, as | well know, My father died about 10 years ago and he was his wife's 4th husband (she was not my mother). She had been divorced twice and widowed once. She already got benefits from her deceased husband's social security and was happy to take the benefits from my deceased father, including his life insurance while my brothers and | got stuck with his bills. + Reply + Share> Jochen Tram + Nazi Adakll « 6 days.oq People think they pay old folks pensions because they in fact do pay those pensions; this is by design. It's also why pensions are directly tied to wages, i. e. when (if) wages increase by a certain percentage, pensions go up by the same percentage. It's a system that will remain sustainable only so long as the currently working generations can generate sufficient money to pay those pensions. Patrick Jasper Jochen Tram + Gday ‘The German state for long was not allowed to save money in order to provide the pensions for the elderly. The assessment works in fact in a way that the current workforce pays for the current retired people. Income from working people = Spending on retired people. One's pension is calculated as a percentage of what one self has contributed to the elderly during one's own work life. Though, the system has recently been changed a lot such that one has the right to give an amount of the wage to a workplace linked pension funds. With a lot of benefits the state tries in this way to create a more sustainable system. + Reply + Share > Asa kaye Nazi Ac: 5 Sure you might be living in a country with even more taxes and a government that doesn't make use of it effecientlly, the USA is not fvaot in encialictie nnvamanre and hanra nuirtaves ara hadhy Head | xyieas ny ouuienoue yuver: ke em Hen UU anes are Hey USEL. | prefer us paying market prices and not be shielded by this amorphous concept of “taxes”. That takes care of us from birth to death. Sorry as an immigrant in a nation made of such,! am ready to work hard, why do you think so many vote with their feet...1 do get the strangeness of this as I grew up in a socialist country and it's a hard for one from there to be completely dependent on one selves... @ Prt P.cam acest - cay qm _The pensions in Germany work in a very different way. Most people don't save for their pensions, although it is encouraged to do this in addition to the state insurance. The basic system is redistributing, which means the money that the younger generation pay into the system goes to the older people pretty much directly. See http://en.wikipedia orgiwiki/P. € + Repl @ BHM Hinton + Noam Adit + 4oeyso0 =m Notentirely true about the US education system. It's actually fairly easy to get grants, and scholarships with a reasonable amount of effort. In many cases States offer automatic grants (covering 75% - 100% of tuition) for higher education, if you have held a certain GPA, and some states offer a check to cover sending your student to a private school if you'd like, Additionally, a jot of States have complex home school based systems with online courses, and a very flexible learning experience. Worth remembering though that the education systems vary from State to State, and some are worse than others. (something that | feel needs to change) + Reply + ¢ @ esse + naam Acai» Scaysac = _No. In Germany pension is paid in and goes out. If you have a traditional population growth with many children, then lots of wars and work place accidents and only a few seniors everything works fine. + Reply + Share > @ _TrPiTombi 08H + Payson Robin, with 50K you can afford a car. Just calculate again... th 50% tax applies for high salaries, | am entrepreneur and paying all this taxes at the end - ifit's so bad, go to Spain, italy or the US and try to get a job same qualification and equally paid as in Germany, and then write your complaint again, please. 21¢ + Reply + SharChristian Kunert > Tinpiombi « Sdays eg) Academic Positions in Germany pay 80K EUR for a full professor. Starting salary for an assistant professor in the US are about $120k at the top universities. If you do exelent work in Germany you get a present basket for Christmas and a warm handshake. In the US you get a promotion stock options and a $10k. Yes you can live ok with 50k but what car can you drive? What house can you buy? A new Golf and a two bedroom apartment. That is hardly the luxurious live you dreamed of when you heard of a $100k job.... 2 ly + Share > Calvin > christian Kunert + 5 daysag And you get to live in the most hated, the most fear-filed, barbaric nation in the world.... filled with constant insecurity and anxiety. Beyond money is the idea of quality of life.....something difficult to ‘explain to an American Reply + Share > BlattversusBliite > Calvin - 18 hoursaa That's true. | am german, lifed and worked for about 4 years in the US and i would never do it again. | really love the americans (even thou in some staates they still convinced itis 1938 and think it is funny to greet germans with a "sieg heil") and the country .... but no, thankis never again. thelogicalamerican + Siaiivers + 18hours As a expat living in Germany, | can attest the Germans weakness is conformity and never looking to become anything better than average. Security outweighs personal gain, | can admire this quality but can not for the life of me live this way + Reply » Share > thelogicalam Thats your OP there Calvin, | find Europe to be much more hate filled then the US, Have non-whites exceed 10% of the population in any european country and watch them become animals. If you are hated your doing something right, human nature is one of jealousy and hatred, Barbaric, | think the very nature of Socialism is Barbaric and an > Calvin + 18 hourcruel. See different opions, and the world stil turns. + Reply + Share > Mauricio Lopez > Christian Kunert - 5 days agi you're not taking in account that if in the us if you get sick, your insurance must be really good and you have to pay anyway. If you want to continue studying you still have to pay, and in germany education and health is free until some extent, 17 + Reply + Jonas M Luster Wavricio Lopez + 5 days ag That's not quite correct. | had a very basic insurance, got cancer, and aside from having to pay to have a room for myself I didn't pay one cent. Compare to Germany where the non-copay version is a six person room, no home care, no payment for transport to and from the appointments, etc. All that was covered by my $90/month insurance. Dental? Germany will rob you blind. US you can afford it Education? Yes, costs money. Money most people get through stipends, scholarships, whatnot. Better than BAFOG any day + Reply + Share» Andrea > JonasM Luster « 5 daysago Excuse me? Where in US are you living? Fantasy Island maybe? 2 + Reply + S Jonas M Luster > Andica + Sday Fremont, CA and then Dallas, TX during that time. Switched from Kaiser Permanente in CA to Blue Shield Advantage HMO. 1 + Reply + Share > téresmékus Jones MLusior + 4 Dental? in Germany you can afford to get on a train or plane and go to Hungary to see a dentist :D 1 + Reply + Share > Jonas M Luster > (izsmskus » acayag Yes, and that's a different story that has nothing to do with this "Germany is a paradise” fluff piece. + Reply + Share > thelogicalam: n> Mauricio Lopez + 18 hours ag Health care is not free in Germany, its 12% of your income for yourinsurance. Primary care is great in Germany not so great in Secondary care. Are we so uneducated or so indoctrinated in a system that we actually believe that its free? So you telling me the German Government somehow produces health insurance through will and determination and not taxes? + Reply + She AnnoyedKitty ? Chiisiien Kuner + 4 days age "What car can you drive?" Are you serious? That is your problem? Ifyou get ill- you don’t have to worry about your life or your job, because it is granted that you'll be back in your position even after one year of ilness 80k for a full professor (equals 100k USD) is a nice BASIC salary. You are free to gain as much money as you want in addition. Open an own business for example. ‘As a worker in one of the "Mittelstand” businesses itis quite normal to get provision at the end of projects. In addition, you get have a months salary for christmas and sometimes even for holidays in july. Rents are considerably low if you don't want to live in downton munich. You can rent a decent house with a garden in the suburbs for 1000€/month (with 50k to spend, there is quite a bit you can save for the 30 days of holiday) Oh - or you just buy that house with a monthly pay of around that much money, Stop whining, 8 + Reply + Share» oni ikerbell 4 AnnoyedkKitty + 4 days ag Not to mention public transportation in Europe is far superior to that of the US, so a car isn’t always a must. 7 + Reply + SI Christian Kunert > rnoyedilty » 4 cays ax You did not get the point but exactly emphasized it. A average worker lives as good as a top of the top engineers. Great when all you want to do is work from 9-5 and live your life after that. Not so good if you are a 10 times engineer. Most other countries reward knowledge and outstanding achievements. In Germany you get punished for over achieving things. The point about being the best is that you can live in Downtown Munich, have a nice car, get to a nicer vacation, don't have to worry if your kids or unexpected expenses...... Germany is great in providing basic needs and this is a good thing. But Germany takes it from the people that really carry the load of the German wealth, People complain about the top 1%. As a matter of factthe problems come from the 0.1%. The 9.9% (the top 10% minus the 0.1%) Live a live that is incremental better than the middle 80%. And BASIC salary means maximum salary and minimum salary in the same word. There is no incentive what so ever in Germany to achieve anything*. The only reason it works is because the work ethic of the Germans is play hard party hard and you would feel bad if you don't do whatever is possible. ‘disclaimer: It is not true that there is no insensitive or bonus etc. but any of those are rather a small extra than justifying the effort and talent. + Reply + SI AnnoyedKitty *>Chyisian Kunert = 2 days I still can't follow your problem For example: An engineer with a university degree and a not-so-badly- paid job in a big company. He has a life many people would dream about. Normally, he gets bonuses depending on the projects (and the risks that have been taken and so on) and a business car. The salary is enough to live a nice life with 2 holidays a year wherever he could want to go to. In addition he is able to pay for more than 2 cars with that salary (I don't mean "buy" but “pay taxes, fuel and insurance") When he works over hours he can convert (most of) them into even more holidays. That is something every average worker can have? | bet not. Let's take the average worker. Someone who went to school for, let's say, construction and metal working. That worker wants a family, a car, maybe a house on their own. If so, that house needs to be a bit off the city or maybe inherited (Inheriting a house is possible because we build houses that actually last over 100 years) That worker wants to have a holiday a year with Nina Tréster > Arnoyeakilty + 2daysag Thats just what | thought while reading all these comments by Germans. Compared to other nations we do live in paradise when it comes to social matters. If you (as a German) talk to anyone from the US or other European countries they just won't believe we have general free education (someone said "yes, it costs money" - okay, we pay like $350 per semestre for books and university facilities), a working healthcare programme you don't have to be rich for in order to affned itSure, our system is not perfect. But how can you possibly complain ‘about not being able to buy the most expensive Mercedes because taxes are too high? While anywhere else in the world people are envying us for having everything we want without too much struggle. But I guess that's our German attitude, never appreciating what we have, always complaining about everything. If all the Germans could finally value our achievements we would recognize the (almost) perfect conditions we enjoy in Germany. + Reply + thelogicalamerican > Annoyedkitly + 18 hours aay AnnoyedKitty, converting exchange rate is a inefficient model. Value of a currency is only valuable when doing international business or traveling from one perspective country to another. The Dollar in the US. ‘on its own home soil has 7% more value of purchase parity than the Euro does on its own soil. This is currency speculation at its finest. + Reply » Share > Gastén Ivan > Christan Kunert +» 4 daysag) Average college tuition fees per year are: Germany - US$6,285 USA - US$28,500, Itis 4.5 times more expensive in the USA. Say you want to provide for two children, that is $12,570 vs $57,000? An $100k job won't cut it if you also want a luxurious live. é + Reply + Share > jetiin > Casién van + 3c Average tuiton fees per year in Germany must be near to 0 by now (at least in the public universities whic are the common ones). The last State abolished tuiton fees the next semesters. You still have to pay something around 50-100€ per semester for administrative costs and student organization + depending on the university you are attending something around 200€ for the Semesterticket which allows you to use public transportation in your town. + Reply + Share > Paolo Lim > G2 onhén + 2dayse It's not just more money. Let's say for the sake of argument you get more money in the US for doing a similar job to the one you did in Germany. The question is will you have TIME to enjoy what youeared? 2 + Reply + SI thelogicalam: in ® Gasion lan + 17 hours ag And the US degree is a much better value overall, in international business a US degree will get you much more salary compesation, Werner Walt - Christian Kunert + 2 daysagi Dear Christian, I don't share your thoughts about the 50% burden. If you take in account what benefits you get as an individual and society in common - this definitely pays off Three thoughts | would like you to think about: 4. The more money you make, the less social costs you pay. 2. Money makes more money. That means, that people who eam a lot and save a lot have the privilige to pay little tax (25% + social cost) for the profit. 3. Socially well off countries are stable societies. While you may see people on wellfare in Germany amongst us you might not be able to see the same “set of" people in the US - cause many of them are locked away in prisons. And yes, | pay those 50%+, And I'm happy to be able to share, to pay for the old who built up this country after being smashed, to give others the opportunity to study and getting a chance, to drive a Golf though | could afford big. What you relate to is something else. Being rewarded for hard work, being recognized for doing great things, going the extra mile, Money is not the greatest motivator. Money doesn't buy respect. Neither does it buy happiness, So there might be another way. + Reply » Share ‘Steve_In_Chicago > Chyistian Ku The key words here are Assistant professor. That's a tenured position in the US, and there are a whole bunch of Adjunct professors waiting for any of those tenured slots to open up. I'm not sure that the positions are entirely equal. Also, 80K EUR is about $110,000 US, so that’s not a huge difference, + Reply + thelogicalam Once again you can't convert exchange rate into salary. A euro ineurope has less purchasing power than a dollar in the states. + Reply + Share > Christy + Christian Kunert « 3 daysag Or in Australia with that kind of money you'd be a renter for the rest of your life with an '02 Ford,Germany sounds pretty good, especially since there's stil a pension when you hit 70 and get around to retiring 1 + Reply + § Archangel.357 Robin + 7 daysage Yes, there IS a benefit Its called "a functioning society". Of course, if you want to be a selfish git, ‘America with its legions of idiotic Ayn Rand worshippers is perfect for you. 1 + Reply + Shar ‘Smarter > Archangel:357 + 7 daysac What is so non functional about the US? I have a degree, I live ina major city, | bought my first home (5 bed 2000 sq ft) when i was 21, it's now paid off completely and | have no mortgage. I have a high paying job and work about 40-45 hours a week, my husband the same (same age as me within 2 months, but he has no degree). I get 3 weeks of vacation, my husband gets 5 (no fair right?!). We enjoy traveling the world, going on exotic vacations, and coming home to our perfectly remodeled home that has been customized for us. We can choose to retire around age 40 or we can choose to have kids and try out that lifestyle. Are you telling me it can be better than that in Germany? Oh and I was homeless for a brief period (heartless parents kicked me out at 17) and my husband was a college dropout who started his adult life with a 25k student loan debt. We weren't handed anything. 112 + Reply « Nazim Adakl >Smorier « 7 daysogy Yes of course, because a single case where USA system functioned means there is nothing worse about it compared to Germany USA has a few millions of homeless people. It is forbidden to be homeless in Germany. Arguing that homelessness is somebody's own fault is also an American myth. Like 18 years olds' rights to gun ‘ownership being actual rights, or there is freedom of opportunity in a country where %0.1 earns %45 of the national income and its their children that inherit this wealth. In USA the culture and economy makes you have to compete forevery achievement to the point you get so selfish to ever care about others’ welll being (explains why people also want low taxes to gun rights and object to Obamacare etc. OR the lousy parents that send their children away when they don't have financial self sufficiency), Germans do their jobs just as perfect without the uber competetive athmosphere, which contributes making North EU countries top on any list that measures happiness by country or . Even with far more amount of poor people, USA manages to make their citizens consume so much to the point to screws the planet's sustainability more, hurting anybody in the world. For example, Danes have 4/5 of Americans' GDP/capita, yet consume 1/2 of the energy that Americans do. if the whole world consumed like Americans did, we were already facing billions people dying to climate change and other environmental disasters. Here is another thing wrong with USA. This list can go on. 105 + Reply » Sha Korleone > Nazim Acad + 6c I think what you and others like fail to realize is the "money for nothing" attitude in the USA. We have about 12% of the population (probably more and going up) who really doesn't want to work and wants to either a) get their whole living from the government, or b) make it in a medical malpractice/personal injury/employment discrimination lawsuit or the like, The Germany economy functions because, speaking for at least the homogenous population in Germany, they have a work ethic like no other. They are proud to work! They do not want a handout! Not saying that there is a not a lot of that going on Germany, in Berlin and with all of the Russian and Turkish and other immigrants and now the Syrian refugees that they take in from every-f-ing-where to soak up the Hartz welfare reforms (Social Security) because they are afraid of being called intolerant Nazis for saying NO, but not in the majority of their lands where traditional Germans and German values are imbued. Now, superimpose the German Democratic Socialist system onto our U.S. landscape and you will have a slowdown in productivity. People who make over $100K (ie. not 0.01% - doctors, lawyers, etc. who own their own firms, etc.), if you told them that they would have to pay 45% in taxes if they worked over $100K, they would work just enough not to put themselves in that higher tax bracket, etc. You would have a massive amount of people who wouldn't want to work at all if they could get all of the welfare money that Germans get. The system would collapse in the U.S. I'm sorry, but advocating for a European style system for the U.S would be a huge failure - because, bottomRECENT POSTS mnie, We Have Sune lazy HuUtaS m1 UIE U9. 1 + Reply + Shar Wolford Billy Frank > orleone + 6daysag You see the biggest problem in USA is unskilled population.skilled Labour is the back borne of Germany. The government with Germany companies make this possible, That's a society that cares. So for USA with lots of people living pay cheque to pay cheque. People breaking their back for 8 dollars an hour can not afford European benefits However they can start slowly improving their middle class and providing equal opportunity in education and skills empowerment. If people had something gainful to do they will never run to social help. Subsidize education and create strong partnership between universities and companies. A few years ago Germany women were fighting to reduced maternity leave period. That shows you that when people have something to do they will not depend on the government It's not only Germany , there are more countries where people are happy . At least majority. And yes you are right the foreigners without skills will not work as long as they have food and shelter. The question is who is gonna pay for them? The only good side is they will give the nation more kids and those kids will be highly skilled professionals because kids have equal shot at life. But with USA I'm afraid the poor families produce poorer unskilled children. . Grégoire Denis Korleone + 6 daysage Itis not about paying more or less Taxes. It is about what you do with the Taxes. 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