It goes to show that annual work hours have been reduced the most in Germany, because employment growth, as it were, has taken the form of part-time precarious jobs paid less - GDP growth has been slightly better, but available revenue to employees has actually shrunk in Germany.
So the conclusion is simple - countries who give too much of the loot to workers must be punished. Wind power
The fact is: an economy "is" a mutually supporting network of associations and relationships, fueled - in part - by the flow of money. As parasites suck the money (grease that keeps the wheels turning) from the economy the network embrittles and then, if the process is not reversed, shatters.
To be diaried.