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> idk why commoners are intentionally left in the dust by the System. There's extreme wealth inequalities between EU countries (we're talking about one order o
by KK7NIL 2y ago
> idk why commoners are intentionally left in the dust by the System.
There's extreme wealth inequalities between EU countries (we're talking about one order of magnitude in the extreme cases), language barriers are the main things holding back the demographic crisis that would come from mass economic immigration within the EU.
> Let's face it: our culture (all across the EU), is American, anyway. It's stupid to pretend otherwise.
EU is a big place (and so is the US).
Perhaps you've mainly visited major urban centers of both and so don't see the rather unique cultures both hold.
- valval 2y ago[flagged]
- pfdietz 2y agoPart of their identity is shockingly low TFR (Total Fertility Rate). In Japan, it's 1.26 live births/woman. In Singapore, it's an astounding 1.04. Both are worse than Europe (1.46) and the US (1.66).
- valval 2y agoThat’s super unfortunate and I’m well aware, but it’s a separate issue.
- pfdietz 2y agoI don't see how it can be separated from the culture as a whole. After all, what causes such differences, if not differences in cultures?
- valval 2y agoSince this inverse correlation with birth rates and GDP is observed everywhere in the world, I'm certain we're not speaking of a cultural issue.
- pfdietz 2y agoIt's not a terribly good correlation; there's a lot of variance that could well be cultural. Unless you think it's explained by genetics?
- anovikov 2y ago>There's extreme wealth inequalities between EU countries (we're talking about one order of magnitude in the extreme cases), language barriers are the main things holding back the demographic crisis that would come from mass economic immigration within the EU. But that was the whole point of EU's existence: to make it easy for people to move countries. Do you claim that removing extra point of friction will make things somehow worse?
- KK7NIL 2y ago> Do you claim that removing extra point of friction will make things somehow worse? Yes, did you not read my comment? The peripheries of the EU (Portugal, Spain, Southern Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, etc) already see massive youth immigration and brain drain to the richer areas of the EU. Make the majority of EU citizens fluent in English, and you can imagine how that would quickly massively increase this issue and destroy local economies and create massive political issues.
- anovikov 2y agoIf that was true, it means whole idea of EU was wrong and people should have been forced to stay in their countries? How about building a wall huh?