• Imgonnatrythis
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    3 hours ago

    European cell phone adoption was about on par with the US. I don’t think the technology is completely to blame here.

    • yeather@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      Cell phones and wall street yuppies became a thing at relatively the same time, yuppy culture really threw work life balance out the window and changed US working culture. There was no European equivalent to the wall street yuppy.

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        2 hours ago

        Oh we’ve had grind culture for a long time. It just didn’t apply to finance yet.