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>I really don't understand this fetishization of the US for business. The USA is a huge market. > If you want to be sued into utter oblivion and live on the s
by mjolk 13y ago
>I really don't understand this fetishization of the US for business.
The USA is a huge market.
> If you want to be sued into utter oblivion and live on the streets with a nonexistent social safety net I guess it's all right.
Oh come on. This is ridiculous even for hyperbole.
- arbuge 13y agoThere's some truth to it. Patent trolls are doing alot of the former (you don't hear from most of their victims, by design), and the latter is undisputably true unless you're over the age when social security payments and medicare coverage kick in.
- loumf 13y ago> the latter is undisputably true unless you're over the age Medicaid and unemployment do not depend on age. ACA provides healthcare insurance subsidies based on income, not age. SNAP and other programs exist as well. The US safety net is perhaps inadequate, but not "undisputably" "nonexistent".
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoDid you see the thread about the 35yo dying of cancer currently ongoing.
- vonmoltke 13y agoI see nothing in that link about lack of care or social benefits leading to this. The most gold-plated safety net in the world cannot save someone from stage IV metastasized melanoma. His example is irrelevant.
- loumf 13y agoMy father died of a brain aneurism when I was 2 years old (he was 26). If not for the safety net of SS insurance and VA benefits, I would have had a much harder childhood. I would love there to be more. I also think that discounting what we have makes it easier for those that would like to remove them.
- baddox 13y agoCancer kills incredibly rich people who have virtually unlimited resources.
- bduerst 13y agoThere's an old adage in the U.S.: You're not a real business until someone tries to sue you.
- baddox 13y agoIt's true that the US ranks fairly low for social safety net, but it's incorrect to claim that this implies that you will be living on the street.
- stefan_kendall3 13y agoIf you read the articles on HN frequently, I would have to imagine you believe the US to be a place where everyone is starving in the streets or living in high rise luxury condos in the bay area. Non-government solutions to Europeans is unfathomable.