@posta_octavian Berlin's 37 days vs Switzerland's 8 tells the whole story. Swiss employers pay the first sick days out of pocket, then a private insurer covers 80 percent. When the cost lands on a real budget, absenteeism collapses. Berlin's public sector has neither payer nor auditor.
Before you judge this man, may I introduce you to the public sector in Berlin?
There are 56.000 public employees in Berlin. (By comparison, the EU commission employs 33.000 people).
In 2025, they took, on average, 37 days of sick leave, compared to 22 days on average for German workers as a whole.
They also get 30 days of vacation, which are added on top of that.
So they do not work a whopping 67 days per year, out of 220 possible work days, which is around 30%.
This may not be the most elegant solution and it will be a huge headache for doctors, but the problem is real especially in the public sector.
Charlie Munger: "The world is not driven by greed. It's driven by envy."
"The fact that everybody is 5x better off than they used to be, they take it for granted. All they think about is somebody else having more now when it's not fair that he should have it and they don't."
"I can't change the fact that a lot of people are very unhappy and feel very abused after everything has improved by about 600% because there's still somebody else who has more."
(Daily Journal AGM || 2022)
@DissentFu If you were born 200 years ago you'd most likely be dead by 52. Be grateful you live in an age with amazing technological progress. If the technologists happen to build some wealth along the way, we shouldn't begrudge them that.
bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015.
didn't even know what SpaceX was.
they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions.
that stake is now worth $880,000.
and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.