Once more, you have the most billionaires on the planet by far, which raises your medium income substantially.
Billionaires skew the mean income, but barely the median.
You don't even earn more than me if you work a minimum wage in the US, than what i would in the UK! Why do you brag about the fact that Americans work like Africans and barely get any more pay than Europeans?
About 1% of the US workforce works a minimum wage job; it’s probably higher in the EU. The vast majority of American minimum wage workers are young enough to where living with their parents is feisable.
It is not a blessing that most people in America cannot choose their holidays; I rarely take vacations because I enjoy my job. It should at least be a choice, though. If you want to be a work dog than do that but don't force that on others.
It doesn’t get forced on others. If you want to be lazy, that’s your right. Just don’t force a company or anybody else to pay for your laziness.
More time to build a connection with God.
I talk to God at work. You can do both work and talk to God at the same time.
Its truly sad you feel that way when 1 bad decision (like having a child before you're 25) will essentially ensure that you live in economic poverty for the rest of your life, when your brain and decision making isn't even fully developed.
This is why people shouldn’t have sex until they can afford a kid. I don’t even think people should date unless the goal is marraige with such a person. I know I don’t date and if a hot girl asked me out, I’d turn her down. I don’t think it should be banned because that’s too authoritarian. But I don’t think it’s smart to date and have sex until one is married and fiscally able to have a kid.
Is that really a haven to you?
It’s tough for sure, but I wouldn’t want my tax dollars paying for the kids other people shouldn’t have had. I don’t want them aborting. People that have one kid when they can’t afford it should not be having any more kids and I would encourage such men to get vasectomies so I don’t have to pay for their kids if they produce a 2nd kid (because they wouldn’t produce a 2nd kid). I also recommend setting their kid up for adoption.
America is great but its still a shithole!
Are you aware this sentence is a contradiction? You can’t be great if your a shithole.
stop being complacent thinking America is the ultimate place, like you don't have people born into poverty. Like you don't have people suffering and blowing their goddamn heads off because they hurt so much! Like you don't have people not being able to afford to pay for their cancer treatment. Like people don't work 60 hours a week on two jobs just to survive.
You think Europe is better than America because of social democracy. I think America is better than the EU because of relative anarcho capitalism. How does one objectively measure which is better? My measurement is the number of people that merely want to move to the US or any country in the EU. America is a more popular destination to move than any country in Europe. We attract less tourists than some countries. But we attract more immigrants. The immigrants generally believe America is the better location to move to since they come to the US in higher numbers than any country in the EU.
Being in poverty is worse in America than in most of Europe. At least I can still go to the dentist.
It’s worse, but I don’t want to pay for other people’s health bills with high taxes.
There is better public transport in Europe. People don't realise how much a car costs.
Why should America make the switch to public transport?
You happen to live in a society which has agreed (through votes and elections) its worthwhile to have taxes!
I understand the need for taxes. I just don’t want an INCOME tax, a PROPERTY tax, and I don’t want taxes going to programs that subsidize the unproductive adults.
If you want to clean the boots of your corp daddies all day, that doesn't mean others should want that.
I don’t do that. My Chipotle job sucks, but I do it for the money. I’m willing to work harder than most Europeans and this makes Americans grittier.
I'm not lazy if I don't want to fill out paper work all day when I could still have a nice life with more holidays.
You are lazy if you don’t want to work.
Yes, we can. That's what democracy is.
Democracy is forcing me to adopt a homeless person? That is unconstitutional. Goes against the fourth amendment I think.
t is not even the most democratic nation on the planet. There are studies to back this stuff up.
A pure democracy is 2 wolves and a sheep voting on who’s for lunch. A Republic is a well armed sheep contesting the vote. Republics are better than democracies.