Pay for same $100k Job: USA vs EU
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You just explained why "at will" employment is the superior system. It just works better as a whole. It means people are more likely to be in the jobs best suited to them. In aggregate this makes a big economic difference.
LA is a big place and has some extremely expensive areas, one of which he probably went to. I never lived in those places because I don't like to burn money. Most of LA is not that expensive. I seriously doubt you can call your places "similar" to the high end places in LA, though. They're expensive for a reason.
The problem with LA is that it has a huge hispanic population (50%) & some black (10%), and white/asian people really don't like living around them. It costs a lot of money to not live in or near an area full of mexicans. I've always lived in "nice enough, not ghetto, but also not 'fancy'" areas, and I'm sure the rents are cheaper than equivalents in London/Paris etc.
That is a question of values. I couldn't give a damn about the "big economic differences", same for most people in Europe. We're perfectly fine being a bit poorer, as long as people have job security (and you don't take it too far like ze French). It's not all about money, contrary to your American mindset.
It's no Beverly Hills. Just a normal neighborhood. He's a stingy European, he's not going to get an expensive house. And in fact, the house itself was very similar to my own: an apartment of about equal size. As for the rest of cost of living: I think goods are cheaper in LA, but services are more expensive.
I would not compare Paris and London to LA, they are actual capital cities. But I'm not familiar with housing prices there. Most European countries have the same kinds of counterproductive housing policies that exist in California, but I guess population growth has been worse in California.
Humanity is a competitive enterprise. If it's not all about money for you, it will be for someone else, and they will outpace and dominate you.The world is lucky the dominant power is the US, because we - contrary to your claims - do not empire build like everyone else would have. We basically leave everyone else alone and let them even free ride off of us.
But let's say the "all about money" power who left you in the dust was Communist China. Well, in that case, you'd better learn Chinese and get ready to have the Han nuts on your chin, because China would absolutely conquer and vassailze you and everyone else in the world, and then you'd lose sovereignty and the Chinese way would be imposed on you.
Whether a city is a capital or not means nothing. Washington DC is the capital of the US and it's a shithole. LA Metro area has 18.5 million people.
I'd rather be able to live my life in comfort, with a lot of vacation days, with job security. Than in some sort of state of nature where I may be out the very next day, because it increases GDP by 3%.
Note that most people here think that at will has no benefits whatsoever. But I can see both sides, and I prefer this side.
Like we are already.
Europe does whatever the US wants. Blow up our pipelines? Yes, master! Sanctions against our primary energy provider? Yes, master. Buying crappy, overpriced LNG? Yes, master!
As if it makes any difference whether you're a vassal to the duke of Normany or Brittany.
It means a great deal, because demand for housing is obviously greater in a capital. If LA were your capital, things would be way worse.
More like the opposite. "Waaah! Clinton bomb Milosevich for us! He is bullying some muslim
terroristsfreedom fighters! We'll be your best friend!" Clinton: omg you guys will really be my friend and praise me?? The might of the US taxpayer is as your disposal!!! "Waaah! Obama, bomb Gaddafi & Assad for us! We don't like them even though they generally obey our rules and Gaddafi even gave up his WMD programs! We will give you the Nobel peace prize again!" Obama: "your wish is my command, euros! everyone knows you're the purest leftists in the world! we all follow your example!"Fuck the EU and fuck the Democrats acting like their free whore mercenaries.
told on yourself, kek.
Idk about Normans or Britons, but Han Chinese will fuck your shit up just as bad as the Imperial Japanese did. Have you seen the videos of them being racist to the African workforce they have in Africa? They don't play by "new age" rules. CCP China would do straight up nazi shit, except with the Han as the Master Race™. The United States is the best caretaker hegemon the world could hope for. It's too bad we are being rotted from the inside by the trannies, faggots, feminists, and racist intersectional coalition of the Woke, aka globohomo. I'd much prefer Russian cultural values to globohomo, though not economic values because I don't want to live in a society dominated by corruption. I think we are already too corrupt as it is, and it could get far worse.
The only thing that matters for a capital is some government jobs. Sacramento is the capital of California, and it's a shithole. I just looked it up. There are 78,000 state workers in Sacramento. That's basically nothing compared to LA's population.