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And yet, despite having less jobs and lower salaries, many countries of europe tend to have less signs of poverty: women are less likely to die in childbirth, t
by KittenInABox 3y ago
And yet, despite having less jobs and lower salaries, many countries of europe tend to have less signs of poverty: women are less likely to die in childbirth, there's less gun violence, less homeless and child hunger...
- lalaithion 3y agoThe US has half the homelessness rate of the UK or France. Childbirth is due to lack of universal health care and gun violence is due to the massive number of guns – not the tech economy.
- kaashif 3y agoThat might be right, but bear in mind the UK counts temporarily housed people (e.g. people couch surfing) as homeless, not just people literally on the streets. These stats may not be directly comparable.
- dboreham 3y agoAs someone who wanders around the US and UK a bit, they're definitely not comparable.
- kuchenbecker 3y agoThose are orthogonal, or are you implying lack of VCs create those conditions?
- prosqlinjector 3y ago> women are less likely to die in childbirth This one has been debunked many times. US healthcare attempts riskier births that would otherwise be aborted.
- mustafa_pasi 3y agoWhat I see is that the underclass in Europe is better taken care off than the underclass in the US. But the working and middle classes in America are richer and have more opportunities than their counterparts in Europe. All of this, is completely orthogonal to whether or not private capital is willing to invest in risky ventures rather than hoard their capital in very secure incremental investments.