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If you're doing well in America pretty much every system is better for you than the European counterpart. On the other hand if you're doing poorly well you can
by tick_tock_tick 5y ago
If you're doing well in America pretty much every system is better for you than the European counterpart. On the other hand if you're doing poorly well you can fall very far in the US system.
Of the American's on Hacker News almost all of them are in the "doing well" category so the perspective is all off.
- username90 5y agoIf you want walkable nice neighbourhoods and mass transit then USA is pretty bad even for the upper academics while even working class has that in Europe.
- CryptoPunk 5y agoThe US government spends more per capita on social welfare programs than most European countries. Any one poor is also eligible for totally free, at point of service, healthcare, via Medicaid.
- nemo44x 5y agoI think there a saying: “America is a bad place to be a stupid person.” If you have the ability to achieve then you will flourish in America - it’s why smart people flock to it from all over. And it’s true what you say - health care is better, food is better, life is better if you’re doing well. But Europe is better if you’re an idiot.
- mongol 5y agoYes buy simplified, that is like saying, if you are doing well you are doing well, and if you are doing poorly, you are doing poorly. I think it makese sense to consider, what is your disaster scenario? What would it take to go from doing well, to not do well? For example, a crippling accident that handicaps you so you can no longer make a living doing the thing you are specialized in today. How would you fare then? This counts to me as more important than whether I can afford this or that car, and so on.
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