Do Americans seriously believe that their country is the best in the world? As to live in?

[Roy]

I mean one can argue that among the 1st world countries it is the worst one to voluntarily choose to live in: your health care is unaffordable, ridiculously overpriced & uneven for many people in your country, apparently live expectancy drops 3rd year in a row according to this website in the U.S and is lower than in considerable part of Europe. Your infant & maternal mortality rates are among the higher ones among the first world countries.


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...tes-180970942/, you have a serious problem with drugs, including prescription drugs (there are already millions of people who are addicted to opioids, thanks to some extremely loose approach to your medicine and your pharmaceutical agents.




You have problem with gun violence. In 2017, 39,773 people in the US were killed by guns, the CDC says.

And in 2013, there were 73,505 nonfatal firearm injuries (23.2 injuries per 100,000 persons),[5][6] and 33,636 deaths due to "injury by firearms" (10.6 deaths per 100,000 persons).[7] These deaths included 21,175 suicides,[7] 11,208 homicides,[8] 505 deaths due to accidental or negligent discharge of a firearm, and 281 deaths due to firearms use with "undetermined intent".

Moreover it is the only highly-developed country with no standard paid maternal leave (and there are much less developed countries that has it as those maps suggest).

https://www.theatlantic.com/business...-world/373117/

If you're a woman working in the United States and your employer provides paid maternity leave, consider yourself lucky: Just 11 percent of Americans employed by private industry have access to some sort of paid family leave. For state and government employees, 16 percent can take paid family leave. The U.S. federal government provides no paid family leave to its employees, though they can use their sick days or vacation days that they've saved up.

This state of affairs places America in a very small group: countries that neither provide new parents with some sort of Social Security-esque benefit nor require that businesses pay their employees even a portion of their normal salaries. According to the map above, the U.S. is joined by Suriname and Papua New Guinea. It is the lone developed nation with this status.

People working in companies have shorter holidays than in other countries, such as France or Ireland.

The list can go on, and go on ... are Americans as little aware of the external world that they have to think that they are necessarily the best at everything?


You spend $598.5 billion on your military which I find quite sickening considering your struggles with other aspects.

[Senpai]

No, it’s a failed experiment of Capitalism and Egalitarianism. It should and will eventually be dismantled.


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[Oneeye]

That is all due to people making poor decisions.

[Lightshade25]

Yes.

[Smeagol]

Yes.

[Bellbeaking]

sure healthcare sucks in that it is expensive. Americans have individual (rather then collective regulated or single payer insurance) meaning they lack collective bargaining power to drive down prices. Provides can just charge insurance companies what they want.


However,

Wages are awesome and its quite an entertaining place with huge food portions of mexican and bbq food.
for white americans its even higher.

also shits cheap

The truth being:
-Swedish Americans earn more than Swedish swedes
-German Americans more than germs
-Italian Americans more than Italians
Only group it isn't true for is the swiss and norweigians (OILWAY amirite?)

from the white house OCOS doc (2018)

plus hispanic girls

[KMack]

I put the opiod drug stuff on the pharma companies and doctors who prescribe and get people hooked. Suicide rate is average compared with Europe and first world countries. I don't understand the concept of not working and getting paid, maternity leave. Stay home until you get your gets into kindergarten then go back to work. Government should not mandate this.

I have a better idea how about stop giving all kinds of welfare and free stuff to moochers. Maybe the government should pay couples who get married and have their first kid, and are gainfully employed.

[Roy]

That is all due to people making poor decisions.

Which people? I remember reading some article that the U.S actually hit their Gini coefficient best result in the year 2000 and since that there's been a slight decline since that time with inequalities growing and more, even working people becoming effectively poor (with an exacerbation during the financial crisis in (2008 - ~2011). Also iirc that was the peak of some median purchasing power, looking from this perspective. GINI index is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income or wealth distribution of a nation's residents, and is the most commonly used measurement of inequality. There are more poeple living below the poverty line as it is designated in your country than in ... Poland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

[Roy]

Yes.

It hardly makes sense though. I would feel seriously unsafe living there knowing that even while possessing health insurance they can suddenly tell you: your cost of treatment has exceeded your insurance limit, now bye, bye! We kick you.

I remember reading that people in Canada have the same or better quality of health care and additional expenses don't ruin the lives.

Your gasoline is cheap, that's good.

[Zeus]

the us is mostly shit in all the ways you described, but most people want to immigrate here because the USA is considered the leader of the free world, the most powerful and influential nation on earth, the largest world economy, and it maintains the legacy as the "land of opportunity", even if it isn't really. But if I could choose to be born in Sweden or some shit I honestly would. My parents never even considered immigrating to any country other than the USA though because of all the reasons I described