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Every now and then I wonder if I should have stayed in the USA rather than coming back to Canada. I could have made a lot more money. Then someone like you says
by mabbo 10y ago
Every now and then I wonder if I should have stayed in the USA rather than coming back to Canada. I could have made a lot more money. Then someone like you says something like that, and I breath a big sigh of relief.
Thanks, I was due for one of those.
- Dylan16807 10y agoThat attitude is not US-specific. Don't be a jerk.
- xyzzy_plugh 10y agoSure, but the grandparent's comment is.
- Dylan16807 10y agoDoesn't matter. Saying you left the US to avoid a certain attitude that is not special to the US is nonsense and insulting to the group as a whole. It would be different if mabbo was specifically trying to avoid that single person, but that's not the case.
- mabbo 10y agoI left the US for many reasons, but one of them was that the "fuck you, got mine" attitude permeates US culture, and as a result becomes law. Not all Americans feel that way, but enough do that the idea of a single-payer health-care system is unthinkable. The idea of a person earning anything more than market-rate wages leads people to protest against the notion, to get angry about a livable minimum wage. It's not special to the US, certainly. But America is where such attitudes are considered normal.
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- dang 10y agoPlease don't react to a comment with a bad thing in it by turning that into the entire subject and going one worse yourself. That's the opposite of civil, substantive discussion. We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13160679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13160679 and marked it off-topic.