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> have healthy job market Reminder: the EU's unemployment rate is twice as high as the US'.

• omginternets 9y ago
  The US might have a better job market (by some cherry-picked metrics), but the EU doesn't have a bad one (I'll grant that there are notable exceptions, but then you'll have to grant me the same for certain US states). The point is that you're playing with words. Moreover, you have to factor in things like healthcare, life expectancy, literacy rates, access to education, danger involved in unemployment, crime rates, unemployment pensions, etc if you want to make a useful decision as to which of the two systems is more dysfunctional than the other. -=EDIT=- : viz "cherry-picked metrics", the quality of a job market is more than just the proportion of people employed. Let's not forget other relevant factors: - job stability - employee protection - workplace hazards & injury compensation - vacation & sick leave - retirement pensions - mandated employee benefits (transportation, remote-work assistance, etc.) - maternity / paternity leave - etc
  • eeZah7Ux 9y ago
    ...and the negative externalities: per-capita imprisonment rates, people killed in other countries through war and other means, people killed in the same country, energy usage, waste output, pollution and carbon footprint...
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• wutwutwutwut 9y ago
  Do you include jobs which does not pay a livable wage in that comparison?
• TeMPOraL 9y ago
  Maybe because being unemployed in EU is much less dangerous than in the US?
  • euyyn 9y ago
    lol that's not why we're unemployed in Spain.
• nthcolumn 9y ago
  Hell some people have as many as three jobs in the states! We got way more jobs than you!