Minichan

Topic: Europeans are so poor.

Anonymous A started this discussion 6 hours ago #139,243

High taxes, small houses, shit salaries, expensive transport, shit healthcare even though it's "free," shit food, less disposable income, lower GDP. LMAO!

🍋 joined in and replied with this 6 hours ago, 15 minutes later[^] [v] #1,471,483

Yeah but they don’t have Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei so it’s worth it.

🍋 double-posted this 5 hours ago, 56 seconds later, 16 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,484

You have no idea what kind of government I would tolerate if it meant I never had to listen to an AI CEO yap about how AI is going to take our jobs and end the world.

Erik !saAqdaazn2 joined in and replied with this 5 hours ago, 3 minutes later, 20 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,487

Rude.

🍋 replied with this 5 hours ago, 11 minutes later, 32 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,489

Also I’m just going to say, I’ve been to Europe, don’t talk shit about the transportation in Europe. You can literally walk from your hotel to a train station, get on a train, and get off in another country without a passport.

If you think Europe has bad transportation compared to America you have completely lost your mind.

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 5 hours ago, 2 minutes later, 34 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,490

> High taxes
Public healthcare, social housing, social safety nets, subsidised public transport, etc. (Stalinism, I know.)
> small houses
At least they're not made of paper. Enjoy your McMansion faggot.
> shit salaries
Fair.
> expensive transport
For the enormous distances the average European travels? Now compare European flight costs with the US. Hey, how's your passenger rail network?
> shit healthcare
Lol'd
> even though it's "free,"
"Heh heh heh, nothing is free, you pay through taxes!" We know you fat berk. It's free at the point of use.
> shit food
Italian food is shit? French food is shit? Spanish food? Greek food? I'll even defend Germany. Maybe we need more HFCS and Red No. 40.
> less disposable income
True, unless you're in Switzerland or Norway.
> lower GDP
And? Mississippi has a higher GDP PPP than many European countries. Wanna live there?

🍋 replied with this 5 hours ago, 1 minute later, 35 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,491

@previous (D)
The food one is the craziest one.

Hamburgers? Hamburg Germany.

French fries? France.

Pizza? Italy.

What American food is from America? Corn?

🍋 double-posted this 5 hours ago, 1 minute later, 37 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,492

You know how America has these giant corn fields that go on forever, when you drive on the highway you just see corn fields for hours and hours and hours?

You know we don’t even eat most of that corn. A lot of it’s not even edible. They just grow it because it’s subsidized by the federal government.

Anonymous D replied with this 5 hours ago, 7 minutes later, 45 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,493

@1,471,491 (🍋)
OP is either trolling or retarded, I think.

Not exactly haute cuisine, but potato chips, sandwiches, macaroni and cheese, apple pie, cherry pie, and A1 steak sauce are all from England. "As American as apple pie." 🤔

🍋 joined in and replied with this 4 hours ago, 35 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,494

@previous (D)
Hopefully they’re just trolling but there are some people in America who act like the only purpose of anything in life is money and cultures that have a higher GDP are superior cultures and people who are rich are better people. I see comments from people on the internet all the time acting like there’s no point in doing anything with your life unless it earns money with the minimum required effort. Which is obviously stupid, because you do need some money to be comfortable, food, water, shelter, internet, you know, the basic human needs. After that, community, culture, friends, I’d argue nature, all that is what makes life worth living. Idk, some people hate on Europe or Canada or whatever, but if you actually just go to these places, it’s absurd. Whatever the GDP stats say about the US vs Canada for instance, Canada is great, it’s clean, people are nice (the stereotype is true), it’s fine. Idk. Money is just a number (these days it isn’t even paper it’s just values on computers) but it doesn’t magically make a country better. To be fair apparently Canada has a housing problem… as if we don’t have one ourselves but ok.

(Edited 1 minute later.)

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 2 hours ago, 2 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,517

@1,471,490 (D)
> Italian food is shit? French food is shit? Spanish food? Greek food? I'll even defend Germany. Maybe we need more HFCS and Red No. 40.

Whites make all those foods waaaaayyyyy better than they can, tbh

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 1 hour ago, 29 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,526

For convenience and beautiful surroundings you can live with less.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 29 minutes ago, 1 hour later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,471,547

I don't mind being objectively poor. I enjoy the comfort of being paid full time for less than 1 hour of actual work.
:

Please familiarise yourself with the rules and markup syntax before posting.