I don’t know about you, but I’m not part of the wealthy 1% in the US. Instead I work massive hours to make a living that then gets taxed harshly, and I don’t get anything in return for it. If the alternative is a higher QOL you can call it whatever you want, I’d rather have that than this. This where most people are secretly depressed and then drug themselves up with pharmaceuticals and need to be treated for stress related diseases with no real security of any kind.
Believe me I’d leave for Europe if I could, but as I stated they will not let people in. Only the US lets everyone in. I know plenty of actual rich people and all of them value their EU citizenship, and most of them have bank accounts in Europe and are ready to leave whenever they want to. Most of them seem to only stick around because of the ridiculous subsidies the US gives to the rich in the form of corporate welfare and special tax loopholes.
I can’t tell if Weeks is trolling or not. But living to work is not the same as working to live, sometimes I can almost condone when people work the system to their benefit. Almost.
when I saw the pictures of Breiviks hotel room (that is not a prison cell) I thought to myself…why the fuck am I not committing crimes and getting rewarded for it…im getting fucked up the ass by playing “modern reliable loyal citizen fuckhead”
how the fuck is he still alive?
the scandinavian countries are p4p GOAT pussyfied shitholes
welp having lived a significant portion of my adult life overseas, i’ll offer some generic but profoundly true advice to anyone considering moving overseas:
you’re trading the devil you know for the devil you don’t. replacing one set of grievances with another. if that’s cool with you, then do it, but don’t think you’ll be happier in your new home. stats say you almost certainly wont be.
life is a competition homie. we’re all competing for the same limited resources.
no one gives a fuck about your 1st world problems. ‘i need a job that lets me feel self-actualized and doesn’t make me feel drained’
working the system is great, do it if you can, i got no moral judgments to make. personally, i don’t like depending on others if i can help it, and i look down on people who are okay living off the hard work of their more diligent peers.
dude any first world nation is paradise for the wealthy, they run this planet. that’s not really a fair comparison.
and if you’re bitching about taxes even remotely, why move to the EU? seriously.
if you’re cool with having vagina in charge of everything (the ascent of feminism and matriarchy in europe is striking) then knock yourself out. hopefully some islamic dudes take over and bring some masculinity back. i’m not joking.
Nothing socialism “gives” you is free, those euros are taxed out the ass on everything. Even in Sweden, the example every hippie loves to point to, you’re largely paying for what the system provides, whether you want it out not. Real, full on socialism (as opposed to Euro pinko economics, which ultimately cause slow rot) ends up the same way every time: shortages, rationing, starvation, and totalitarian government. This notion of Europe as an economic utopia is sorely detached from reality, as Europe is in a pretty nasty crisis due to the extreme spending of many Euro nations (apparently your Bolshevik professors decided against informing you of current events), with only the few productive and fiscally responsible nations of the group keeping the EU afloat.
I can’t help but laugh every time I see someone say “the European economy is great”, as this is a) a gross over simplification, b) poorly informed, and c) always said with the implication that Scandinavian policies would be effective in America, a nation many times the size of those countries without the homogenous populations long known for being responsible.
Yes. Nations that spend in an unsustainable fashion have made their own messes. The only reason the US has been able to get away with it for so long now is that the rest of the world still uses the dollar as a reserve currency, allowing our government to print and borrow its way through whatever lunacy politicians promise voters.
Tell that to one of our European counterparts here who’s actually out of high school/college, working a decent job and living on their own (meaning actually paying the taxes themselves rather than living high on the hog with the money of their parents and taxpayers). Taxes and prices are generally very high in Europe.
Our medical system is a mess, but what you want (socialism) will simply throw more gas on the train wreck intervention created in the first place.
If you actually pay taxes in the US everything is expensive. The difference is in the US most people are poor so they don’t pay anything. In Europe pretty much everyone has a decent job, so they all pay taxes.
In the US if you are an actual tax payer you’ll lose about 65% of all your earnings on various taxes and fees to the government. Most people only focus on just the federal income tax, but you still have to pay state tax, FICA, then property tax for your home, gasoline tax, sales tax, pretty much everything gets taxed even if you won’t admit it is. When all the math is done, people have maybe 35% to themselves, which they then usually proceed to use on housing, transportation, food and some entertainment.