Economic facts that don't mean what you think they mean.

Lack of productivity has nothing to do with individual performance, but with automation, industrial capital, organization and regulation.

Spain suffers from an antiquated labour regulation, including perverse incentives. As an example, many companies refrain from growing over certain size because it triggers a nightmare of regulation and expenses.

Also there are other barriers... I could write about that for hours, but it's sad and I'm tired.

Reading people repeating again and again the same stupid fairy tales about the lazy southern europeans and the diligent northern europeans is frankly annoying. For example the author says that:

> "I don’t think they have siestas in Germany…"

A wild siesta cliché suddenly appears.

You are really funny. For your information, workers in Spain don't have "siestas" since XIX siecle, we have electricity and cars also. I can understand how for many young europeans the entire experience of Spain can fit in a blurry weekend in Magaluf, a bleeding nose and maybe a broken arm after jumping to a pool, but the country is a little more than that.

> Productivity can be measured for example by GDP per hours worked, and Germany's productivy is very clearly above Spain's.

Productivity per hour measures capital investment and labor skill within the same quantity.