The article chooses to take a metric that you usually do not see much: GDP per employee and per hours worked, at purchasing power standards

  • Maybe in Western Europe, but years of online gaming have taught me that Eastern Europeans have dreadful English skills. Your perspective is probably skewed, since we Germans are comparatively fluent.

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      Your perspective is probably skewed, since we Germans are comparatively fluent.

      It’s even worse. Germany has still some generational divide here but high proficiency on average on a level comparable to countries without that generational gap. So in reality Germans are not comparably fluent, but very proficient… or not at all. Which skews perception even more.