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by Shaddox
1726 days ago
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> I will say though, the US has historically had a very hard time taking ideas from European countries and getting them to work the same way here. I think this is because everyone only sees the upside of the system. When getting down to the nitty and gritty, a lot of sacrifices are made to keep those systems in place, sacrifices that go against the individualistic fiber of American society. To take some spicy issues to put them in this framework : "Free" education. It's not that free, it's just mostly accessible. European Universities are very lean running operations, whereas American universities are grandiose and more like a vacation resort. "Free" healthcare. It's also not that free, just accessible and most of the time, overburdened. There are a ton of public health measures put in place to cut costs of it. Just this week for example they announced doubling of taxes on alcohol. The USA can make it work, for sure. It's the most powerful nation on earth and runs laps around everyone else combined on pretty much every metric. It would take over 100 years of continual USA degradation for anyone else to even start measuring seriously against it. But for systems like this to be put in place requires a serious shift in how people think about society which will not happen in our lifetimes. |
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Guess you're talking about number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending? :-)
https://youtu.be/VMqcLUqYqrs?t=150