@maureenlister1 That totally makes sense. I also wonder what the economic cost would be based on sth I heard from people here, “In Portugal, nobody attends appointments on time. It’s totally acceptable to be late for 15 to 20 minutes.”
Assuming in a single day everybody has at least 1 appointment to attend and everybody is late for 15 minutes,
Portugal has a population of 10.28 million,
Assuming half of the population provide services and the other half receive services,
(0.25H x 10.28 million) / 2 = 1,285,000H
That is to say, in a single day,
Portugal wastes 1.285 million hours, or 146 years, of input of production on being late or waiting.
I wonder if this could be a factor behind the economic sluggishness here.