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Why are so many things better in the EU?
by bel_marinaio 4y ago
Why are so many things better in the EU?
- AnhTho_FR 4y agoHaha EU isn't perfect, but from a super high-level and personal point of view (and there are millions of nuances within Europe), but generally there's more emphasis on the common good as a society, than what I've seen in the US (I grew up in France but part of my family lives in the US).
- wpietri 4y agoA historian, Walter McDougall, author of the excellent "Let the Sea Make a Noise", was planning to write a history of America around the duality of the word "hustle", which can mean both "energetic, go get 'em attitude" and "scam". In America we are very accepting of anti-social or exploitative behavior as long as somebody's getting rich. I also think a lot about the term "puffery", which in American law is when companies make false claims about a product, but in a fashion where everybody is assumed to know that they're lying, which makes it ok: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery It really says something to me that we supposedly have such a deep expectation of commercial lies that it's acceptable. I think in a healthier country someone would say, "Wait, what if they just didn't lie?"
- jhdhjdkjdhcfnj 4y agoit's a way to exhert maximum control with minimal effort (in this case, talking about flow of capital) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_(sociology) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_(sociology)