Every?
The only thing the US got going for itself is that it has a bunch of really rich oligarchs. Oh, it has (soon, had) nice nature too, that’s it
Almost always higher pay but worse everything else. It’s a golden goose to extract revenue from but actually being American is kinda cringe especially when the USA chants break out.
Almost always higher pay? Maybe for <5% of the higher salary jobs, but most jobs pay less as many states have no or just shitty minimum wage laws
Face it, the USA sucks from every side you look at it
Public healthcare
Super annuation
Preferential & compulsory voting
No tipping culture
Consumer protection laws
Gun control laws
Weather service isnt privitised
Wide variety of multicultural foods
Farming sector isnt controlled by a few companies (ie chickens)/subsidy schemes (looking at you corn)
Organised religion has less participation and dropping steadily
Adoption of rooftop solar systemsAlso significantly less instances of tech billionares, team factional politics, media oligarchs & donald trumps.
There are a lot of areas we could do better and are ashamed of though.
We’ve got one media oligarch and that’s one too many.
Assuming you’re talking about Australia since you mentioned Super.
Would we consider him australian still?
No chance.
Australia?
I live in Japan and we tick most of these boxes as well
We have the four freedoms that guarantee the free movement of goods, capital, services, and people as part of the European single market.
You realize that between the states the US has all of those?
You’re still one country. Having states/provinces isn’t even a unique thing to the US
Assuming you’re from Canada based on the .CA and says provinces (vs oblasts, cantons, or some other regional division), I would point at the interprovincial trade barriers.
That’s not entirely true. Texas seems to have a problem with people leaving for various services and it’s a federal crime to transport certain flora between states, even if it is fine in both states.
Those certain flora can’t be transported between European states either.
Healthcare, a sane leader who cares about his country, cheaper tuition, more than two parties, the metric system, less urban sprawl (though it’s still not great here), far less guns
Australia:
- Gun control
- Universal healthcare
- We speak English
we’ve got free healthcare and free universities =) (I’m from Brazil)
This seems like a pretty obvious one: We have democracy.
To be fair, what we specifically have is a republic, although we do have democratic voting to elect our representatives.
Some of those representatives take the stance that they can choose whatever they want best, regardless of what their constituents want, because they were voted in.
Other representatives take the stance that they should vote for whatever the majority of their constituents want.
Some…representatives…choose whatever they want…because they were voted in.
Oh that there’s the Republicans.
Others…vote for whatever the majority of their consituents want.
Found the Democrats.
We have a Constitutional Republic…
Which is a type of democracy
Ow
Don’t feel too bad about it, remarkably few countries really do have democracy (even though many have more of it than the US).
We care about the planet.
Parliamentary democracy with proportional representation, affordable healthcare, affordable education, great roads and infrastructure with lots of cycling lanes, shops near homes, better labour laws, more vacation days, maternity leave, social safety net, less gun violence, police trained in de-escalation, affordable phone and internet plans, more affordable healthy food options, more egalitarian culture, none of those pesky hills or mountains, surrounded by countries that make good beer.
En het is er gewoon gezellig.
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Which country, if you don’t mind me asking?
Healthcare, climate, food, democracy, measurement system, no death penalty, houses in concrete
Just off the top of my head:
State-sponsored higher education that is later paid back through taxes. Free healthcare, also paid for by taxes, and affordable medicine. Decent mass transit, although railways are a disgrace. Labour laws. Paid sick leave and mandatory minimum vacation days. Paid maternity leave, and tax breaks for new mothers.
A sane head of government, just that akone is priceless but apparently not that common anymore.
One of the things that concerns me about Trump is that his politicking strategy may be an effective one in an era of social media. If that is true, it may be that other politicians will take it up.
Trump is done in four years. But having highly-misleading-but-attention-attracting narratives can live on for a very long time, absent a change in the media environment.
He’s not the first, Italy suffered Silvio Berlusconi for years before.
I’m not familiar with Berlusconi’s domestic politics, but I do recall people saying during Trump’s first campaign that he was similar to Berlusconi.
We’re small, and that means a lot of the problems facing America just pass us by.
I guess history and a sense of being part of an established culture.
Do also want to point out though that Americans talk their country down on here. It’s a place of extremes but that diversity in theory means anyone could find their niche. They also have pretty much every biome you might want to live in from desert, to parks to icy tundra - I can see why you might not need a passport.
