Pay for same $100k Job: USA vs EU
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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.
C'mon man, you're going to blame us for that? Right now, the US is threatening Serbia to sanction Russia - saying that it will be perfectly fine with ethnic cleansing if Serbia does not obey. I hope Serbia does not obey its butchers.
It's German critical infrastructure. Ergo, European critical infrastructure.
Then again, you did catch me - because I've been criticizing the Germans for allowing their pipelines to be blown up by the Muricans, while also criticizing crazies who say that Russians blew up their own pipelines.
We are not Africa though. Unfortunately, Africans get abused by everyone who comes across them.
And I actually agree. I just don't think that Russia being victorious in its own sphere will lead to their even worse corruption spreading to us.
I wonder what it is in Russian culture that led to corruption under the tsars, communists and post-communists.
There's also ambassadors and their worthless families. Be happy you don't live in a capital, because those diplomats run red lights with zero consequences.