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The US is such a stressful country, tax filing, healthcare, none of these basic things just work. Add to that the lawyers culture and you get a good basis for e

The US is such a stressful country, tax filing, healthcare, none of these basic things just work. Add to that the lawyers culture and you get a good basis for emotion filled Netflix dramas, but not really for real life.

frockington1 5y ago
Tax filing takes me a few hours and ~ $100 each year and I have multiple properties and businesses. For most people it's not that big of a deal but it's easy to jump on the anti-IRS bandwagon
- Boltgolt 5y ago
  Imagine paying $100 just to be able to pay your government and thinking that's "not that big of a deal"
  - rc2634 5y ago
    You’ll pay one way or the other. If the government does all the calculations for you, they will either have to pay the person who calculates it by hand or pay the people who maintain the automated systems to calculate it for you. The government doesn’t have the greatest record of this efficiently spending tax dollars, so if the government charged you to calculate how you much you owe the government, you’ll probably end up paying more.
PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
There are actually less lawsuits per capita in the US than in most OECD nations. The "lawyers culture" is a false idea created, it seems, by popular media (films, TV, etc.)
- shagmin 5y ago
  Was curious about this, and from some quick Googling the US isn't much of a contender for lawsuits per capita, but a lot more of our GDP goes to law firms and litigation than any other country and we have one of the highest lawyers per capita.
- nsonha 5y ago
  > lawsuits per capita try legal transations per capita
- kgin 5y ago
  I’m really curious to dig into this and finding out what people in Europe are suing each other for. It’s just so weird seeing the billboards here in the US encouraging people to sue for personal injury damages, featuring photos of happy people holding fans of cash like they just won the lottery. Maybe the celebration of lawsuits is the American thing, if not having greater total numbers.
  - PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
    Yeah, there's a mile or two in Albuquerque, NM where almost every visible piece of advertising (even the bus stops) are stereotypical lawyers promising to fight for you. It's comical, terrifying and pathetic, all at once.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > There are actually less lawsuits per capita in the US than in most OECD nations. That's because our inefficient and costly to access and high-risk legal system is optimized for resolving conflict by legal intimidation rather than actual adjudication.

frockington1 5y ago

Tax filing takes me a few hours and ~ $100 each year and I have multiple properties and businesses. For most people it's not that big of a deal but it's easy to jump on the anti-IRS bandwagon

Boltgolt 5y ago
Imagine paying $100 just to be able to pay your government and thinking that's "not that big of a deal"
- rc2634 5y ago
  You’ll pay one way or the other. If the government does all the calculations for you, they will either have to pay the person who calculates it by hand or pay the people who maintain the automated systems to calculate it for you. The government doesn’t have the greatest record of this efficiently spending tax dollars, so if the government charged you to calculate how you much you owe the government, you’ll probably end up paying more.

PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago

There are actually less lawsuits per capita in the US than in most OECD nations. The "lawyers culture" is a false idea created, it seems, by popular media (films, TV, etc.)

shagmin 5y ago
Was curious about this, and from some quick Googling the US isn't much of a contender for lawsuits per capita, but a lot more of our GDP goes to law firms and litigation than any other country and we have one of the highest lawyers per capita.
nsonha 5y ago
> lawsuits per capita try legal transations per capita
kgin 5y ago
I’m really curious to dig into this and finding out what people in Europe are suing each other for. It’s just so weird seeing the billboards here in the US encouraging people to sue for personal injury damages, featuring photos of happy people holding fans of cash like they just won the lottery. Maybe the celebration of lawsuits is the American thing, if not having greater total numbers.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
  Yeah, there's a mile or two in Albuquerque, NM where almost every visible piece of advertising (even the bus stops) are stereotypical lawyers promising to fight for you. It's comical, terrifying and pathetic, all at once.
dragonwriter 5y ago
> There are actually less lawsuits per capita in the US than in most OECD nations. That's because our inefficient and costly to access and high-risk legal system is optimized for resolving conflict by legal intimidation rather than actual adjudication.