The European Union is becoming the world’s “quality of life” superpower
The European Union is becoming the world’s “quality of life” superpower
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The European Union is becoming the world’s “quality of life” superpower
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The data is only up to 2023. I'm sure the EU has surpassed the nazi USA by now which was ruined by the orange turd, even if narrowly in a few countries.
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Are you for real? The US was a dumpster fire way before Trump. Infant mortality, litteracy, poverty, violent crime rates way worse than OECD averages.
The US doesn't even belong in the OECD. Here's a test: you are leader of your people and have a critical policy decision to make. Your advisors have kidnapped two people to help you make the decision. One is President Trump, the other is a Somali Pirate Captain. Which do you choose?
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I didn't even know that kidnapping was a OECD requirement.
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Yeah recently a lot of risk management policies which is a surveillance lifestyle.
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Facists are spreading like cancer there too aren’t they? If that is the case they will lose any quality of life advantage soon because facist oligarchs only destroy.
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Except for a few countries, Trump's victory has slowed or even stalled the growth of fascist parties in Europe: what they want to bring is now in full display.
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That’s good news
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Yes, and they keep trying to destroy privacy at the EU level.
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I agree and I hope you can fight it off because it’s bad over here
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Bit like Japan I suppose. Both regions have relatively low wealth inequality in contrast to other countries. Both have publicly accessible welfare systems. Both look for steady economic growth than getting high on raging steroidal economic growth that the US is obsessed with. Both have pretty good rule of law and human rights. Depending on where you are in the EU, some member states have a comparable toxic work culture as Japan. Both also whine about immigration despite the declining population.
I semi-joke about the latter but countries less obsessed with steroidal capitalist growth have a better quality of life. We may not have tech giants like Amazon and Facebook, but at least we don't have tech bros buying out politicians to dictate policies.
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The eu is continually trying to find ways around encryption.
Not arguing with your main points but that is a huge L
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Yeah we gotta stop those fuckers. It's not the EU per se IMO but a group pushing that crap again and again. Hopefully it'll end with some personal souverain data law or something blocking things like that for good.
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Tech firms that sell AI tools for content scanning (e.g., Thorn) are deeply involved in lobbying for these chat control policies.
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USA: Ha ha you don't have a facebook!
EU: Oh no. Anyways...
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As I asked in the other thread, also: who pays the price for this quality of life?
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but at least we don't have tech bros buying out politicians to dictate policies.
We have tech bros buying out US politicians who can dictate us what to do, as the EU is totally reliant, economically and militarily, on the US.
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It all really depends on how much money you have and how you measure "quality of life". My gut feeling is that lower class have it a lot better in EU thanks to social programs, healthcare and livable minimum wage. Middle class has it "better" in US because of higher purchasing power. The wealthy have it better in US because they pretty much run everything, don't pay taxes and are above the law.
30 years ago the middle class in US was really big so people in US had higher quality of life on average. Since then the middle class shrunk and more people fell to the lower class while in EU a lot of people (especially in the East) were uplifted to middle class so now EU has higher quality of life on average.
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I don’t care about the quality of life of the wealthy in the US. In fact, I hope it gets much, much, much worse and I hope many cease having a life with a quality to measure.
The US middle class is also dogshit to the point where it almst just doesn’t exist. It has no power and is constantly losing money, often propped up just by credit-card debt. They watch their buying power decrease every year and their job secuirty tank just like everyone else. Many have to live far away from nicer areas in order to afford the things that make them look like they’re middle class and the also means that they’re all forced to drive cars. They still get screwed by the US “healthcare” system and many will only tell others that they’re happy with things because they’re ignorant, voluntarily or otherwise, of anything better.
The only people in the US who have any real power can whether any significant storm are the very people who deserve to be shot in the street, not those who actually work.
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Let's give the ultra rich a quality of afterlife. And let's make it horrible. Throw them in the trash compactor or something
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"almost on par"?
I've seen US living conditions, we're ahead..
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you can really tell who has never been to/lived in the EU, when they make it sound like the US is even remotely in the same field as the EU far as QoL is concerned
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[Laughing superiorly in Danish]
Like, sure a lot could be even better, but as a whole, we're doing quite great!
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laughs from across the Öresund
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Shakes fist, pretending to be angry
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Probably has to do with tackling hard hitting issues like... Checks notes... Ensuring that vegetarian meat alternatives can't be called "steak", "burger", or "bacon". Ah yes.
Couldn't have to do with multiple countries going full right wing + corporatization being in a race to the bottom lol.
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So funny when someone has to dig out some small annoyance and try to blow it up out of proportion.
We got other problems like lots of roundabouts, 5 weeks of mandatory paid holidays and healthcare!
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Because people are actually treated like people here...
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My GDP could whip your GDP!
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Not overspending on armed forces (planting bases all over the world like a self-appointed world police) to instead invest in social services will get you that.
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Korrupter Überwachungsstaat trifft es wohl besser
Western EU has a higher quality of life then the US for a long time and the east is catching up. Also yes GDP growth is slowing, but I would not be surprised if that starts to change soon. As in the EU does better then the US. For the EU an end of the war in Ukraine would be amazing and Trump is destroying the US economy for short term profit.
US has high GDP and GDP per capita only because of over inflated tech & finance valuations and PE firms dumping more and more money into these industries. It's not sustainable.
Outside of the US, West and North Europe has pretty high GDP per capita and I don't see the point in chasing high growth numbers.
One day we might have enough GDP too, right? I mean how much does every person need.
We have enough GDP, but the simple truth is that without GDP growth we get a system change and if it is not done deliberately it is towards fascism.
NO! Infinite growth is the only way!