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Leaving asides the offense/racist grandparent comments, the worship of money is what has made America prosperous, and what still allows us to get the best and t
by csdvrx 5y ago
Leaving asides the offense/racist grandparent comments, the worship of money is what has made America prosperous, and what still allows us to get the best and the brightest.
Ask "them enlightened" Europeans (or Australians or...) how much they make, and rejoice we get to live a prosperous life here in America!
And no, before someone says "but what about universal healthcare?", health insurance doesn't count, because if you work at a normal job, you get that, and if you don't, the ER never refuses anyone thanks to our legal system which you also disparage.
- yardie 5y agoThe European countries who never fulfill their annual US visa allotments; to the chagrin of Chinese and Indian visa seekers who are facing almost a decade long wait. The disparities in salaries are pretty much isolated to tech. Most other occupations are pretty much similar all things considered.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> to the chagrin of Chinese and Indian visa seekers who are facing almost a decade long wait. A lot of that is self-imposed; fraudulent H1B applications (it's for specialty occupations, some low level QA position does not qualify) from shady bodyshops are backloging the system. Thankfully, the previous administration started issuing more RFEs and we might see the backlog getting better.
- vmception 5y agoRich Europeans are also illiquid, first born manchilds that inherited a finance role at the family office and have no idea what to do. I find it really interesting how the US optimized specifically for liquidity. Like, foreigners came to the US to use it for that and eventually won. Crazy to think how much is illiquid around the world, and how much more can become liquid.
- bigfudge 5y agoThis comment is both patronising, rude and incorrect at the same time. Social mobility is broadly the same in the US and Europe. What is different is that people in the US overestimate their social mobility: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/14/americans-overestimate-social-mobility-in-their-country https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/14/american...
- vmception 5y agoI’m talking about the generational 1% not broad population movements into something moderately stable, best not to conflate those two
- dragonwriter 5y ago> health insurance doesn’t count, because if you work at a normal job, you get tha Plenty of normal jobs without health insurance. Only 71% of private industry employees have health care benefits available. [0] [0] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ebs2.pdf https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ebs2.pdf > the ER never refuses anyone The ER is only required to screen for and, if found, stabilize emergency medical conditions. For many health conditions, by the time something is an emergency, its too late to do much. This mandate is important, but it doesn’t substitute for having insurance for proper medical care.
- ClumsyPilot 5y ago"worship of money is what has made America prosperous" Ah, so it's a religion and prayer works? It's got nothing to do with US being the only industrial power that wasn't obliterated in WW2 and had debt that took untill 2006 to pay off, like UK did? Or with US being center of global finance, having global reserve currency, etc? Okay lets take your argument at face value - what's the money for, to lead a better life, right? Look at life expectancy, crime rates, 'satisfaction', is US leading the world? Could it be that a succesfull society needs something in addition to a 'money religion'?
- encryptluks2 5y agoI'm not advocating for a money religion, what I'm saying is that people do terrible things for money and your point only elaborates on this.