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Americans are absolutely, utterly, unable to imagine that the way they do things is not the best. It's incredible to watch from outside.
by twic 6y ago
Americans are absolutely, utterly, unable to imagine that the way they do things is not the best. It's incredible to watch from outside.
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- JamesBarney 6y agoAmericans are over 300 million people, and like Europe we are not homogenous. And many Americans believe European healthcare, education, and infrastructure are far superior to the U.S. The problem is that despite Europe being far more efficient at health, education, and infrastructure spending it also has a wide range of policies. So it's difficult to determine which policies are driving the increase in efficiency and which aren't.
- coredog64 6y agoThere’s no such thing as “European healthcare”. European countries (and I’m going to ignore Brexit and include the UK) approach provision of healthcare in a unique way. For example, the UK has the NHS, Switzerland has insurance mandates, and France has strict regulation of private insurance companies.
- JamesBarney 6y agoYeah this was my point.
- mschuster91 6y agoYet all of Europe has one thing in common: people don't go bankrupt over surgeries because 99.99% of people have an insurance.
- x86_64Ubuntu 6y agoWhat does homogeneity have to do with anything?
- JamesBarney 6y ago>Americans are absolutely, utterly, unable to imagine that the way they do things is not the best. It's incredible to watch from outside. Treats Americans like they all have the same beliefs, i.e. homogenous.
- seibelj 6y agoEuropeans are utterly unable to create new global enterprises at the rate of America and China, apart from a few odd balls like Spotify. Different places optimize for different things, for better and worse.
- plafl 6y agoEurope is a collection of small countries. It's not coincidence that the economic powerhouse of Europe, Germany, is the most populated country. And since this is going quite off topic here is some wild idea: let's keep just a fraction of the current universities, like say 5 or 10%, force talent in Europe to concentrate in a few places, force mixing across nations. Actually this is already encouraged somehow but let's be more brutal. Just thinking out loud maybe an stupid idea.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoWhose fault is it that Europe has many small countries instead of being dominated by Germany the? If the EU hadn't stopped its continent-scale genocidal domination, it could be on par with USA and China for linguiatic and economic unity.
- vkou 6y ago> Europeans are utterly unable to create new global enterprises at the rate of America and China, Having a homogeneous, single-language, single market of 350 million, and 1.4 billion people, respectively, is an enormous competitive advantage that Europe cannot replicate, without doing away with sovereignty and brainwashing ~80% of its population. And despite all that, the quality of life of the average European is pretty good.
- booboolayla 6y agoBecause they have European immigrants (like me) who are more than willing to explain to Americans what exactly leftist ideas mean in practice, and how much of it is false advertising. Stop pretending health care is better in Europe!
- DoofusOfDeath 6y agoPlease refrain from nationalist slander. It's unproductive and against site rules.
- justinmeiners 6y agoEuropeans are absolutely, utterly, unable to imagine that things they pay a percentage of all income earned, over their entire life, are not free. It's incredible to watch from outside.
- sushid 6y agoCAs tax rate when you factor in federal tax is comparable to the EU and we get none of the benefits.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> CAs tax rate when you factor in federal tax is comparable to the EU Nominal rates might be, but tax burden is not. California tax burden is well under 15% GDP, and federal collections in the state are a tiny bit higher than state tax revenues, together still under 30% tax burden. EU overall tax burden is over 40% of GDP.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoHow do these numbers look when you count health care/insurance cost for CA instead of only for EU?
- danielheath 6y agoCount school fees and student debt too - public schools in most of the EU are good enough that you don’t have to go private the way the US does.
- dragonwriter 6y agoYou don't need to go private in the US, either, that's largely a status display and a mechanism for non-educational social benefits more than an actual educational benefit; like the difference between outcomes in different public schools outcomes, the vast majority of difference between education outcomes in private and public schools is explained by factors outside of the school attended that determine educational outcomes (socioeconomic status, parental educational attainment, engaged parenting, etc.)