David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything American Reaction
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There are no socialist states in Europe. We are all democracies. All European states guarantee paid vacations, paid sick days, paid parental leave and health care for all. Demos stands for people and a democracy should be there and provide for the people in the first place.
This depends on your definition of socialism. Socialism an democracy are absolutely not exclusive. Socialism is a system for spreading wealth and democracy is a system for valuing the importance of single citizens (meaning every citizen has the same value and therefore basically the same rights as any other).
A lot of people get confused, but europe is capitalist. Everybody can start a business, you can ask the price you want for products or services.
Anybody can become succesfull and rich. We have stock markers, competition, democracy, freedom.
The only difference is our governments and businesses have to keep the unions happy, and the unions are not happy if the workers are not happy.
Sadly the unions have disappeared in the USA, leading to the exploitation we see today in the USA.
social democracy
"...no socialist states in Europe." hahahahahaha
I don't know if you even live in Europe, but all (to my knowledge) are social (welfare) states... WTF are you writing there?
"All European states guarantee paid vacations, paid sick days, paid parental leave and health care...etc"
This is the social (welfare) state!!!
Or are you making a mistake, like almost all Americans, social = communism.
In Europe it's called "Social Liberalism", maybe too high for US brains to comprehend.....I doubt a Bismark or von Stauffenberg were communists hahahahah
Socialism is the devil and Unions are little demons hahaha that's exactly why the USA is the way it is and Europe isn't!
Health system is maximum profit-oriented and demand labor rights---who?
@@roadrage9191 The two political parties system doens't help. Especially since the gop has turn crazy thanks to Trump and lives now in an alternate reality where limiting the number of doors in a school is their solution for mass murders, block every policy the dems try to pass, etc...
Politicians are supposed to work for the people, which mean they shouldn't get money from companies. But in the US, politicians are financed by pharmaceutical, oil companies and NRA lobbies, which is why drugs price are so high, why they block ecological policies, why they block guns control legislation, and why there is no decent work laws.
Can I give you some friendly advice. Wait for the guy to finish making his point before you interrupt. I don't see how you can react to something if you haven't listened to it. Way too many stops. America isn't a country, it's a business.
Thanks. I try to make it a true reaction video. If someone says an outlandish sentence and then gives a 5 minutes explanation I react to the sentence and then hear out the explanation. Sometimes there's a premature reaction because I think they've finished a point when they haven't. Sometimes many small claims are made to support a large point and I want to address each claim.
You do kinda make a lot of excuses for your country...it shouldn't matter what peoples diets are for the life expectancy in certain areas...the fact is something is wrong with your country's systems that make it so those people in Appalachia and West Virginia have low life expectancies...like preventative health, higher wages to buy real food, social welfare help for those who are vulnerable and at risk.
Many countries have areas where the population may be poorer but the government helps to make sure the majority can afford accommodation, food and has access to healthcare. Even with these poor people most other industrialised countries will still have a higher life expectancy than the US.
The US healthcare system may be less effective because the motivation is money. Get in and get out as fast as possible for the next paying customer.
@@stevenbalekic5683 Stating facts is not the same as making an excuse. It does matter what people's diets are for life expectancy. It's not always social issues that you mentioned that create low life expectancy. Some people live in hedonism. Some people are dumb. Some people are dumb and hedonistic. They don't care if you offer them preventative health or if they have money for better food.
The US has a. lot fo programs to help with these things, too. A lot of them are just poorly run. We do have medicare, though, which covers a lot of people.
It's ineffective because it's bloated and corrupt. There's a bunch of middlemen and administrators that suck up an obscene amount of money. There's a ton of inefficiency.
@@calebamore
It actually does...basically no other industrialised country has such a big disparity between socio-economic groups as the US does where it would be called "third world conditions" of the general population...and the very same mixtures of peoples settled in those places as they did in other multicultural countries like Canada, Australia, the UK. All these places have the same amount (per capita) of social problems from lazy people, mental issues, unhealthy foods etc....the difference is those other countries have high grade healthcare, metal health, social housing, job seeker support, higher wages, at least 25 mandatory holiday days off per year, laws so companies cannot take advantage of employees by setting minimum wage for each job type and setting the full time week to 38 hours and contributions to your retirement payment.
With these things in place it helps people who have no hope and have given up to where they can get a good paying job and don't have to give so much away because there is no health insurance to pay (unless you want a more luxurious experience then you can opt for private insurance)...schools are by law obligated to only serve healthy freshly prepared foods where the kids can grow a habit of trying to eat healthier. I have seen many people from Appalachia, Alabama etc. on youtube where they do what they can to prosper...either by moving away from the depressed area, gaining self employment etc.
But just imagine if everyone had access to all the benefits that the other coutries offer to their citizens.
But there is one thing different. Many of the other countries have a government that is more trustworthy. Their governments tend to be more balanced by having at least a centre right and centre left party system where the US has slid too far over to the right and far right where companies and business are more important to them then the people...with this system it is better to have the current healthcare system where proper preventative care is badly administered...this way profits are better because instead of preventing an illness where the drug companies and hospitals can't charge you to make money, people just get sick so they can charge you.
@@stevenbalekic5683 *pedant alert*
“Metal health”
I immediately thought of Judas Priest’s Painkiller.
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Sorry.
Good reaction,as to the Uk’s health service….The National Health Service in the UK is totally non profit…The average Brit pays around the equivalent of $1800 a year out of their taxes into the National Health Service…this payment means that everything is then free at point of use.No fees to see a doctor,no fees for ambulances,no fees for ER visit,no fees for operations,no fees for Physiotherapy,no fees for scans,X-rays etc,no fees for anything except for medication and that’s a fixed cost regardless of the drug…£9.50 per prescription.If you’re under 18,unemployed,in school or over 65 all the medication is free as well.If you’re a diabetic all your insulin is free…for life.If you need ongoing medication then you can pay £109 prescription fee for the years worth of drugs.There are no such things as Co pays,pre-existing conditions,deductibles etc…the $1800 that you pay from your taxes yearly is the only thing that you pay for all this free at point of service care…not too bad if you ask me.
Thank you! That all sounds fantastic. Do you know why it says that English citizen lose 26% of their wage to healthcare? Is this video just wrong? Or is there more money from other taxes going into the system?
@@calebamore No that’s not just for healthcare that’s for everything,Healthcare,defense,social security,education,policing,infrastructure etc…all the functions that government are responsible for,so the average Brit keeps roughly between 75-70% of what they earn.
@@mubbles1066 Thanks his wording kind of threw me off
@@calebamore Yeah,I wouldn’t be too happy if my healthcare was sucking out a quarter of what I earned😂But for the highest level earner it’s more tax obviously,they get stung for 45%
@@calebamore At the end of each tax year we get sent a statement of where our tax and National insurance was spent. The last full year that I worked 2019 from my wages of £36,000 ($44,408). My payment for health was £930 ($1,147). The cost of the NHS is spread over all forms of taxation. So tourists are helping to contribute a very small portion. In the form of VAT (sales tax) on things like theatre tickets and restaurant meals. So they also get the benefit of free emergency treatment. For example if you come here break a leg in an accident. The initial ambulance ride and treatment will be without charge. But any follow up care will be charged.
Japan has in fact lower (average) Working hours than the US
Thanks I've heard conflicting information. It may be that the mean is higher and the median is lower or vice versa. Allegedly the employees that work overtime tend to work much more overtime than US employees. Both countries seem to have bad work practices in some areas.
*Correction:*Japan used to be known as having the longest average working hours and was infamous for suicides from overwork. They even have a word for death from overwork - Karoshi (過労死, Karōshi).
Current data appears to show that this has changed and the US has now overtaken Japan in total hours worked annually per person.
I have found some conflicting data, though, in that employees in Japan who do work overtime on average have more overtime hours annually. In addition, it was found that 37% of companies are exceeding the legally allowed federal overtime rules, which may cause inaccuracies with reported data.
*More corrections! (embarrassing)*
Starting at 8:06 I kept saying "premium" instead of "COPAY."
My apologies.
I think it actually shows another small reason why the US healthcare system is horrible. There's a bunch of terms you need to use that you shouldn't even have to think about if you need medical assistance. On top of that, if you get these terms confused (like I did) it could end up costing you a lot of money.
I also said 25 thousand a few times when I meant 25 HUNDRED.
@8:12 - well, that's exactly the point. Many people in the US are under- or uninsured, because they just cannot afford it. Also: without insurance you have to pay much more out of pocket when you need healthcare (and weirdly you even have to pay out of pocket if you _have_ insurance).
So in total, on _average_ the US spend about double the amount on healthcare than any other industrialized nation, while at the same time producing worse outcomes (shorter life expectancy, higher infant/maternal mortality, more chronic illnesses, ...).
@12:27 - of course he's picking extremes, but the question is: should there be any place in the _richest_ country in the history of the world, that has a lower life expectancy than a developing country?
@22:45 - nope. Average working hours per year in Japan: 1,644, US: 1,779 (both 2019 figures).
@23:45 - that wasn't the industry, it was unions. Basically in Europe no worker will accept a lower wage, because they have a strong representation.
Also: what good is a minimum wage, when there are official ways to circumvent it (like e.g. in food services, where waiters can be payed as little as $2,15 per hour because employers are allowed to factor tips - despite their random nature - into the base wage).
Ask yourself why people from Denmark and other countries people don't suffer as much with mental health issues.... Maybe because they have been fortunate enough to have been born in a country that cares about their people where parents get time to spend with their kids and raise them with good morals and principles the way all parents would want to have the luxury of doing.. But the way you're government works does not often allow this especially for poorer families.. Personally I would not care to live in such a country.. Also I find your comments about your fellow countrymen very rude and distasteful.. Calling people from west Virginia less intelligent WTF.. I genuinely feel sad for the people of America because unless you are fairly well off.. Your well and truly screwed 🙏😢🥰🇬🇧
I think that you (and some other people, who made critical reaction videos) missunderstood the actual point in this video. Although David Cross makes quite a lot comparisons between the USA and other countries throughout his video, these comparisons are not supposed to show that other countries are better than the US. These comparisons, as far as I understand, are meant to show a kind of proof of concept: There are multiple countries that demonstrated for many decades a working health care system for all of their citizens that they can handle with even much less money. And the USA can do it too if they manage to handle things a little bit differently. It's also not a good reason to use the fact that, for example, the USA is just slightly worse in particular things, like life expectancy, than other worst developed countries (at least in terms of whatever point has been pointed out) as an argument to say that it doesn't count or makes things not as bad as portrayed. Many Americans can't afford health care, that's a fact. Does it really matter that the USA is just less 1% worse than e. g. Thailand in terms of life expectancy? It's still a comparison with developed countries which are bad at health care and rank the USA currently at place 54. At least one thing is for sure: David used purposedly a title like this to upset people, which I find kind of funny, because it makes quite a lot people change their reaction more dramatically, than it would otherwise do. And I think that every intelligent human understands, that the video title is not meant to be taken literally. ;-)
Thanks. I'm a little surprised to hear that, but some other people have been upset that I say anything critical. I'm just trying to give my real reaction and opinions.
I like David Cross and I know it's supposed to be somewhat comical. I think people are used to fake reaction videos where people just accept whatever is said and act super surprised.
I'm not sure where you're from, but I hear from European the point you're saying a lot. Something along the lines of "We did, so you can do it too."
On paper that's true. We could physically do the same the same thing. But implementation of anything that actually helps negate inequality in America is nearly impossible. That's why I said his greatest point was addressing how much waste there is in the US healthcare system. We have to pinpoint where the problem areas are and find legitimate solutions to them, not just say "It worked there, it can also work here."
I think I discussed it in the video, but basically the morality is at a freefall in America and the structural system doesn't help. Bribes are essentially legal in America, so the wealthy have incredible control over the system. They never allow legislation to be approved that really helps the poor. Most programs that are made to help the poor are bad and the vast majority of the money that goes to them gets funneled into bureaucrat, contractor and oligarch pockets. Maybe 10% actually helps poor people.
If they tried made healthcare free or nearly free in America many wealthy organizations and individuals would lobby VERY HARD to not let that happen. Seeing as it hasn't happened after many pushes in America's history, I don't think it will happen. So, you have to get rid of either this lack of morals/empathy or get rid of this incentive system or both.
@@calebamore Yes, you have good points. Thank you for your insight. I'm personally not upset about critical voices and I find them important. Yours was one of the most factual, actually.
@@howtocookazombie Thank you!
@@calebamore Ok, but this is a definition of bad country...
You really need to watch America Compared: Why other countries treat their people so much better
That's the most viewed reaction video on my channel
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You are balancing on the edge of denial - try watching the entire video without commenting to get the point...
"Companies give money for those" (paid holiday days, parental leave).. Lol
Lol
I think you are reversing the conclusions. 20:51 you said "is not fair" to compare Norway to USA because Norway don´t have mental health problems "low IQ" like the USA.
That is exactly the point of the video Norway don´t have a mental health problem because people get treated and people have good education so no "low IQ" like in the USA. Not the other way around.
Is totally fair to compare they are both wealthy nations.
And again at 25:40 you have unstable people because people don´t get treatment are more overworked, and more strefull then in Denmark. Is nothing to do withe culture most country's in Europe are more culture diversify than the USA. In Europe you can have two neighbor cities (like 5 miles apart) and they will have diferent accents, specific words for some things, they will have different festivals and traditions.
In conclusion is not that you don´t have healthecare and social suport because you have problems. You have problems because you don´t have healthcare and social suport and that is the all point of the video.
Hey thanks for you comment and thank you for putting timestamps on what you refer to. It helps a lot.
Mental health can improve IQ, but it's not a 1:1 correlation.
I think you don't realize the degree of instability. The people I'm referring to don't even have jobs and they often have brain damage.
The US is by far the most diverse country on earth. We're known as a melting pot because we're made of immigrants from nearly every culture and we're constantly getting immigrants from nearly every culture. The differences you're referring to are trivial compared to a those people who immigrate to America like a Somalian and a Korean or an Iraqi and an Argentinian, etc. Some European countries have been opening their borders more, but we're literally made out of immigration of vastly differing countries.
I for sure agree we'd have less problems if he had better healthcare, but it's putting the cart before the horse. If it's clear that America's healthcare system is atrocious (70% say U.S. healthcare has major problems/is in state of crisis), why not fix it? It's because of other problems that we have. There's not even a real effort to make it better. There's a lack of love/morality which causes greed and keeps the people who are benefitting from the broken system fighting hard for it or at least not trying to change it.
@@calebamore Quote "I think you don't realize the degree of instability. The people I'm referring to don't even have jobs and they often have brain damage. " I think i know there is unstable people in Europe to but when they snap they get treatment.
Do you ever think that may be many of them don´t have a job because they clearly unstable. I don´t know you but you look young to me. Do you have any ideia how over work can affect you, do you know how mind crushing is the presion of having a kid depending on you to feel trape in live?
In my prespective where is the problem in the USA you need a job to get insurance therefore treatment, but you can only get a job if you are at your best. That means that the uphill journey is slow but downhill is fast as hell. Two senarios are possible.
If what ever reason you are down, you will not get a job if you don´t get a job the pressure and anxiety will increase and deeper you go. And because you can aford treatment down sperial is formed
The second senario you are stable so you get a job you making money every thing is fine. But overwork start to have efect on you, your productivity lowers so the company pressure you anxiety rise, and because you can´t stop working you don´t have any (or very low) chance to recover so you end up losing your job.
The same senario in Europe case 1 you are in "bad shape" you go to a doctor get help and enter a social program that help you get back on your fit. Sure half of the cases will became social parasites that leave from the help of the state but other half will actualy get on there fit and contribute to society.
Case 2 even simply you are overworked you go to vacations batery recharged you came back to work fresh as cucumber. Or if the tall is to great you stop get treated the state helps you and after a year or so you can be reintegraed.
Quote "The US is by far the most diverse country on earth." Sure i can agree withe that
"why not fix it? It's because of other problems that we have. There's not even a real effort to make it better. There's a lack of love/morality which causes greed" Where is where we diasagre and you don´t realy made a counter point.
I am not talking only about a healthsystem i am talking about a more social state in general. The healthsystems is just the easy one actualy. But again the problems that USA have came from the lack of social state and you think that you can solve those problems without addressing the root of them. From where do you think that the lack of "love/Morality" and greed came from. Is the lack of suport people have. People are traped they have to work like slaves to keep a float. Because every thing is suported on the job so they can´t aford to loose it. So they killthemselfs to secure the job.
When you are trape your priority is o get some space to breath then you can asset and work on the other problems.
Go to a vilage in midle of nowwhere where people don´t have food, an tell the farmer that is using a cheimcal to improve is harvest but is cancerous or unenviormental, that he should not use that chemical. He will say go f*** yourself cancer or the environment is not is main problem hungary is. First you have to give that farmer securty that if don´t use that chemical he will still feed is famaly.
Note: Is a bit of exageration i know but is to make a point across
@@calebamore
Canada and Australia are more multicultural than the US
I worked as the senior Intervention Technologist, in Canada, for 21 years. In interventional, we perform life and limb saving procedures. I have met a significant number of US citizens who have dual citizenship with Canada. They always say, the US health system is great! I can go anywhere and pay to get my MR or CT scan and have it done right away! Yet, here they are on my examination table. Problem is, when they find someting on those scans, these US citizens simply can't afford the life saving treatments that are provided, at no additional costs other than our taxes, to them and all Canadians. Yeah, we may wait for elective procedures but no one goes bankrupt from Medical Debt, which is responsinle for 68% of all bankrupsies in the US. Just not smart.
In 2019, American workers worked 1,779 hours. The Japanese 1,644.
Thank you. Please see my pinned post.
So in Sweden for healthcare there are no insurance to pay, It is funded through taxes and health care is one part of it. So what i pay the most is 120 dollar a year for doktorsappointments and everything inside of that like operation and other treatments. When i reached the sum of 120 dollars my healthcare, any healthcare is free for the rest of the year. And there is noone telling me i can not get a operation that i need, if i need it i get it.
If i don't visit the doctor or any other healthcare instance during that year i don't pay anything at all or i pay until i reach 120 dollar.
Medicine same thing. I pay up to 240 dollars a year for medicine. When i reached 240 dollars it is free for the rest of the year.
For children up to 20 years everything is free. You pay nothing at all it is all taxfunded..
There is also no difference between rich or poor, this is the same cost for all.
Everything else is funded with taxes. So then you gonna go yeah but your taxes are so high, sure they are, but are they really? Because i did not pay anything for my childresn education, NOTHING and you also get free food, real food in school. I have heavy subsidized childcare, i have childbenefits which is 125 dollar per child up to 20 years old. All people in Sweden get that, rich or poor have no matter it is tax benefits.
Then there is roads, busses, trains, library, sport, art, companies, appartments, social securitey, parental leave, vacation, pensions, sickleave (we dont have set days if you are sick you are sick and stay home and get payed) unions and so much more that is involved in the tax system with benefits.
So yes we have a high tax system but we also get benefits from it which in the end make sure we all have a good standard and for those that are really really poor and can't afford to support them self and/or their family because they may have lost their job, got cancer, someone died well anything really are also supported and get money for rent, food, some other costs that is needed to survive. In the end noone will go broke over them being ill short or long term and noone use go fund be because they need a operation, we know if shit hits the fan, we will be ok. We might not live the rich life if that happens but we wont live on the street having nothing to eat and can't care for the children anymore.
Also there is people i Denmark and Sweden who have people trying to live off the society but that does not mean that you can not make it work for the rest of America and instead trying to find those that do. In the end there will always be parasites but over all most people provide to the society in one way or the other and that is what should be important and what should be built up on, not the few who is taking advantage.
Thanks for your comment! Yeah the biggest issues I think are that corruption and greed in America is so much higher that better programs won't be made and IF they're made, the people in charge will find ways to keep the money for themselves and then the program won't work.
This all points back to lack or morals and mental health. Both of which are in freefall in America. It's not just that we have some parasites, we have a LOT because people aren't loving and/or sane. I know these people.
@@calebamore The problem is not corruption, in every country in the world there is corruption. The problem is that in the US the laws do not protect its citizens. That is, by law, companies in the US are not required to give paid vacations to their employees. By law, companies in the US are not required to provide paid maternity leave. Without these legal obligations, companies in the US end up giving what you call benefits and which in most countries are called rights.
@@alejandrorios2340 There's wildly varying degrees of corruption in every country. Why do you think they don't protect the citizens? It's because the companies and billionaires who pay politicians (corrupt them) don't want to lose money.
@@calebamore You are right. but the only ones who can make the laws change in favor of citizenship instead of companies are the citizens themselves through voting or through removing support for a two-party system that has only achieved is to degrade its voters to the category of almost slaves. The responsibility lies with you citizens, not with the politicians.
@@alejandrorios2340 Yeah, but it's nearly impossible. Most people don't have a high enough iq to really decide who the best candidate is. They're influenced more strongly by other factors. It's mostly a matter of publicity. You usually have to pay for that by owning a media company, having supporters at a media company or buying ads. That's why Trump was such a disruptive candidate. He's rich, but he didn't have enough money to buy a ridiculous amount of ads or a major media company and the only one the supported him was FOX. On top of that the guy who was supposed to be Democrat candidate (Bernie Sanders) was cheated out of his spot. Again, through corruption.
The nominee process is inherently corrupt in that some politicians (superdelegates, unbound delegates) can have an equal vote to tens of thousands of citizens. This makes up about 15% of the total votes of the Democrat nominee process. For Republicans it's less than 5%, which ironically makes the Democrat party less Democratic. Both are bad, though.
Many people, especially dumb people, tend to vote for whoever seems like they're going to win. That's why the Bolsheviks chose their name. It means "majority," but they were actually the minority party for their early history. Lenin knew that people would side with him by default if they though he was the biggest. It's herd mentality.
As an european I like to ask a question. What do the following words have in common?
Individualism, socialism, capitalism , comunism. Right answer: They end on ism. So is there a meaning to ism?
Yes! The ending implies that we are dealing with a theory. Why? Because ism is the old greek word for theory.
So what theories do we talk about:
Individualism is the theory of a state where the needs of indivials are the base for legislation,, administration and judgement (e.g. City state of Athens), Socialism is the theory that the needs of a society, should be the base for legislation, etc. (e.g. the City state of Sparta). Both words were first used by the greek philosopher Plato in his book politiko approximately 400 b.c. The book concludes that both theories are equally good to buuld a state upon if the leadership is competent.
So what should US citizens take away from this? Always vote for the competent candidate. According to the book a competent leadership has been educated and proven himself in the art of thinking (Philosophie).
So please on November 8th, choose candidates for puplic offices, who are able to express their reasoning and feeling by showing competence in the english language (no mirandering sprechen, no contradictions)
When they speak of hospital beds its not just a physical bed it includes cost of staff and equipment etc that is needed along with that bed
Hey thanks for your comment!
I highly doubt that sort of thing is highly regulated or accurately recorded in many third world countries. I have some friends in medicine in Venezuela and they basically have no supplies or equipment. So, even though on paper they have about 30% as many beds as the US I suspect in actuality it's more like almost no beds have an adequate amount of anything. It just seems like not a good measurement of the quality of a country's healthcare.
In addition, according to the 2017 data (most recent comparable) from the World Bank, the US actually has more than the UK. data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.BEDS.ZS?end=2019&locations=VE-US-GB&start=2002
I appreciate you watching the video, but I couldn't finish your reaction. You interrupt the speaker's text before he even finishes and you start arguing about something you think he might mean without realy listening what he says... Listening is the key to this type of video. Of course you can give your opinion, but let the speaker finish first and LISTEN to what he said.
When did I not listen?
Not really. There is two type of listening ,your ears and your brain :/
For example in the beginning he said that "people say america is the greatest country on Earth" you instantly refute the thing ,but without any doubt I can tell you as someone from outside the american continent that it is true. You have no idea the number of US people that claim that their country is the best. Thete is even a subreddit for that 😩
@@Lostouille You think I have no idea about my own people?
You don't give that impression. You refuted in the first seconds of the video the statement about people saying america is the greatest.
"Foreigners like to dunk..."
Hard to confirm, but there are 2 factors. First, Americans with their nation wide ability for voice projection, acclaim to be the bestest. This is just my observation as EU citizen with some relatives and friends in the US and A, and one thing they for sure are the best, is bragging about how much $ they earn AND spend on things like apartments in NY. Or how much more skyscrapers they have and this 1-2k year old city should already have some.
And this bring us to second reason. It's easy. Aside from nominal wealth and military spending, there's not really much going for them.
I might be living in poorer side of EU, yet after housing, payments and grocery costs I'm left with more. More cash, more free time, less worries about future, health or education. More life.
Yeah like I said in the video, I don't really hear people say America is the best anymore unless it's during the Olympics. Certainly not from people my age. I'm surprised your relatives and friends got the money to buy an apartment in New York (I'm guessing NYC) because they sound like morons.
Reaction starts at 1:19. I say in the intro that I might be wrong. No need to be aggressive with me. I'm happy to discuss details with anyone.
Most of our medications come from US companies, however the government restricts the price the company can charge! Guess what, they still make a profit in Canada or else they wouldn't sell it here.
'You should also watch YT vid 'America Compared: Why Other Countries Treat Their People So Much Better'
That's my most viewed reaction video
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Caleb, when that guy told about the woman that died in her apartment after she was fired at 20:04, for a moment i really got the impression that you were truly heartbroken about that story.
Even though you are pretty defensive throughout the video.
But no critics from my side, i truly admire your earnest opinion.
And that's exactly what makes watching "reaction" video's so interesting.
Thanks for that.
Thanks a lot for your comment. Yeah, there's really no words to describe how bad some things are. It's crushing. Occasionally I hear some uplifting stories. I try to keep hope.
Yeah I honestly don't have any intention of being defensive. That's not in my head, but I understand if it comes across that way to some people. Maybe I can improve my delivery or something.
Kind of going off of your point, what I really care about is pinpointing what the problems are and bringing up legitimate solutions. I can't do much, but I really want to fix problems instead of just commenting on how bad things are.
Thanks again, your words are much appreciated.
@@calebamore Your welcome!👍🏻
You should react to"why other countries treat their Citizen so much better"
Hey Fernando that's my most viewed reaction video
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When you're saying insurance premium, you mean deductible. The premium is the base price of the insurance.
Thanks I wrote a correction about it in my pinned post. I got all mixed up.
@@calebamore Apologies. I didn't notice.
my guy is so defensive...You could learn a little something if you didn't close your mind
Can you give me an example of a time that I closed my mind?
You interrupt every few seconds, often before Cross gets to the point he is trying to make. And he is making points he has researched. You are making statements that you haven't looked into.
"iT'S noT FAiR tO COmpArE tHE RicHeST CouNTrY wITh AnOTher RICh cOUnTRy"
You're a reactor, you need to hear the argument before reacting. You're stopping it every 5 words and going off, it's pretty annoying. You wonder how they measure that? Shut up a minute and he'll tell you! Space it out a bit and try not to be so immediately defensive. All our countries have issues but trying to blow them off does no one any good.
Wait a minute. Are you telling me that I'm reacting in a reaction video?
@@calebamore You are reacting too quickly. Let the guy make his point.
Have you considered listening before speaking?
No way. Never.
Watch the video first man 😡
Thanks I'll try to let it play more in future reaction videos.
Dusky means darker skin. Stop trying to find reasons. This video is correct and the world knows it. You need to watch Why the World Treats Their people better than America? In that video you will find that even Ethiopia has paid Maternity leave. I am Australian and I have never paid for an MRI. We pay 3% of our tax for free healthcare and medications are subsidised by the Government. My State has free Ambulance too.
Hey Karen. That's my mom's name! Thanks for your comment.
That is actually my most viewed reaction video. You can find it here if you'd like: ruclips.net/video/hgX2uTEBDnI/видео.html
We do have minimum wage
Thanks for your comment, Tony!
17:10 those people usually end up at the bottom of a river.
How's that baby formula thing going for you?
Haha idk Mark Cuban's company seems to be doing pretty well.
I don't have any babies. Hallelujah.
You havent heard people talk that it is the best in the world, but your gov certainly acts like that with all the other countries. And, I, from other country HAVE HEARD a lot of your politicians repeat that at least once a week. Just last week the senator that goes to cancun when Texas is freezing, said it in an interview
It was so hard to watch this. You came out from the start fighting everything he was trying to point out. Why?
I'm not fighting. I'm trying to focus solely on the truth.
@@calebamore while I was trying to watch it, you kept on shutting him down before he could even finish a sentence. Thus taking away the context of the truth so how can you focus on the truth. What made me stop was the 'hospital bed' comment from you. They may have more beds but they may be empty. When health people talk about available beds, they are talking about the ratio of medical staff, including doctors, to the ratio of how many patients they can safely care for, not how many physical beds. Please run it again and listen to what he has to say with the context.
How do you know that's what they mean?
@@calebamore it was shown many times during covid reporting on hospital capabilities, BUT, it is explained with 'bed availability ' for any time you need a procedure. The easiest way to explain is which hospital you have to go to for which procedure. This is because you need whatever operation and whatever hospital staff. ICU take first priority BUT they only put in enough beds as per doctors and nurses they have. Smaller hospitals may have 6 beds in ICU, whilst larger hospitals may have 10. It is not the bed, but, the amount of staff to look after the patients. I don't know if you have a minister for health in your government, if you do, the definition should be on his Web page. I hope this helps.
@@jaynehyland8939 Thank you. What is the timestamp of the part you're talking about and do you have a source to prove what you're saying?
You have to STOP with excuses all the time. In Denmark everybody can have a baby for FREE and the babies don't die
The interesting yet tiering fact when I watch this video reacted to by americans. Is that the most of them yet try to defend or question the obvious problems that they have.
Are Americans so brainewashed so they feel an obligation to defend their country even how well the fact are laid in front of them ?
Cause not can any other country be better... Or can it ?
And if they once agree that another country's way of things works better. They don't want to have the necessary change in form of for an example higher tax. So everyone can benefit to have better health care. Or a safety net for the weakest most vulnerable in society. I am proud to live in a country and pay enough tax so everyone can be helped. No matter how rich or poor they are.. So I often hear American reactors say European country's are better in many ways for the people. But yet they don't want to have that change in US cause they want to change. For me that's egoism..And I also follow some Americans who has moved for an instance to Sweden and once they live here fully understand how bad US are. At the opposite many Swedes don't really understand how good we have it here until they move to US.
The most strange thing for me is that how bad it even gets in US with all this questions and others like abortion laws, Gun laws crime and all other things. Still many Americans says oh its the greatest country in the world.... And what even comes up they will defend America and how America Does things whatever...
As an European its just so strange among many other things about the US like in school swear Aligance to the flag everyday and stuff.
Well I'm rambling but it is many things that's really hard to understand and mostly I feel sorry for the American people in the end.
I would never in my life want to live there when I compare so many things about living in Northern Europe.
Interesting nevertheless.
/ J
"do we need high speed rail?" 🤦🏻
well lets just sasy you need new railroads and new system .. breaks from 1800 and what do you get .. ohio
You better not to interrupt every other sentence the video says. Listen until one theme is finished at least.
Dude how can 25k be a good deal for health insurance? Xd
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Dude I made so many errors in this video.......uhg. I meant 25 hundred..........
Thanks for pointing this out. I'm going to make another correction in the comments section
@@calebamore for a year? Oh cmon. People with no residence Pay 600 dollars a year here , and u makin ur own citizens Pay those numbers?
@@calebamore im just trying to understand , no hate
@@pepeyufera97 Where are you from?
Yeah same life expectancy but cuba is much poorer
He is in dena
your seriously in denial
Japan actually has less work hours than the US
Check out my pinned comment
You refer a lot to mental health issue for a most of the points in this video (and the other one). But why do you think there would be that much more "mental health issue" in the US? Maybe because of the way people are treated in the US... low minimum wages, higher weekly work hours with less vacation, high taxes but no universal healthcare, etc...
US is all about capitalism, more money for the rich and nothing done for the poor.
Yeah I've been thinking about it's sort of a chicken or the egg issue. One issue is with race, though, in that usually people compare Europeans vs Americans in terms of wealth, but Europe only has a 2% black population where in America it's 13%. This skews the data because black people don't earn as much. Even if we adopted all the same policies as Europe this would still likely skew the average data.
@@calebamore In France, 20% of the population is imigrant or descendent of imigration, 13% from non european countries, mostly north africans. It's also the part of the population with the lowest income / higher risk of unumployement, just like black people in the US.
@@yannicklucas1836 Yeah but France's population is less than 9% black. Also, if your argument is that the US has low wages and you want to single out France for comparison with the US as opposed to all of Europe you're proving yourself wrong because America's median income is higher than France's.
@@calebamore I'm not saying France is the perfect example, but it's the example i know the most as i'm french and yes, my northern neighbours from scandinavians countries or Germany are in an even better situation.
But compared to the US, we have :
-universal healthcare (once again, not the best between european countries, but no comparison possible with the US, we don't have to go bankrupt or open a gofundme to pay the bill...)
- unemployed benefits
- paid vacations days
- paid parental leave
- i can be sick 3months fully paid before being paid half (insurance cover the loss) and after 1 year, i can be sick again fully paid for 3 months
- we are paid less because we work less too : a full time job is 35h weekly - actually we usually work more than that but we get more paid vacation days in exchange, in my case for a 37h30 per week, i have 56 paid days vacations in a year (25 regular vacation days, 15 days because i work 37h30 a week instead of 35h a week, 2 bonus days if i take enough vacation days early or late in the calendar (it's like if i take 8 days off season i have 2 bonus days, just to avoid everybody taking too much vacation during summer), and holydays (12 more off days this year in France, 14 for me because i leave in an area which was german between WW1 and WW2 and we kept some advantages from that period))
So yeah, median income might be less in France than in the US, but i still make enough to aford what i want, and the quality of life is way better, more personnal time to do what i want, better working regulation laws, etc... (and i haven't even talk about better food and less gun violence, etc... and don't tell me you have freedom because we have it too, in fact most countries in the world have freedom)
21:57 for $1 a week you can sponsor Jimmy nobucks.
I wish we were socialists.
"A lot of countries do a lot worse" ... Well ok, I guess that's one yardstick for examining one's country. I might suggest that we evaluate how well we're doing based on objective measures of efficiency and maximizing well-being for the most people. Most of the things pointed out in the video are explicitly counter-productive for society, and only set up the way they are because it benefits a tiny minority of the population who are already too wealthy to have problems.
Seriously, you think there might be a slight issue with claiming no one says America is awesome while you're literally stopping every 5 seconds to reiterate how awesome you think America is? And btw, defending American health care is like defending factory safety standards in the 1890's.
I didn't say people don't think America is awesome. I said people don't often say it's the best anymore.
@@calebamore "might be a slight issue with claiming no one says America is awesome"
Which is exactly what I said, you said. Oh and I didn't get to it, but that comment about 'Urban' crime/poverty as a counter to statistics about the south and Appalachia... Holy shit man. I'd suggest they should both be fixed, but maybe you see some kind of competition between urban and sub-urban/rural. I can't imagine what distinction you might be making there...
@@dmwalker24 What is the timestamp on that?
22:21 greed isn't a theory?
are you sure about japan?? I'm sure you're wrong... check the UN statistics
I posted about it in this comment section
It's pinned. It should be the first thing you see
@@calebamore
It was not the first thing I saw, but then I read it and I am glad that you are looking for information to correct yourself.
bro.. the level of copium
It's over 9000
That 43 % is an average , so.....
Yeah I question where they came up with that figure. Imo seems highly unrealistic, but I'd like to see the data.
@@calebamore there are people that spend much less like u said but theres also a lot of people that spend more so thats where
@@pepeyufera97 I know there are people that spend more. I'm questioning how they came up with that average.
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hahaha..
David cross Cherry picks all over the place, most of these country's have smaller military because America provides protection for most of the world, I wonder what kind of health care we could provide if we stopped giving other countries our money? Also Americans pay 37% in taxes( way to much) but a lot of these other industrial countries pay over 50 % in taxes, on top of that , often they pay 50% in sales taxes, often making almost it impossible to buy a house or even a car, and one has to ask , if America is so bad, why does David live here? America is still a free country, he can leave any time he wants,
Hey Marvin thanks for your comment! Great points. I also always think when I hear people complain about the US military - would you rather have a country like China running the world? Lol. 90% of the world population would prefer the US if they really experienced China dominating them.
Funny...last time I checked the only time a country was protected by others it was the US that got helped out by its allies.
Every time I hear that myth about the US protecting anybody I have to laugh. The US can't even protect its own citizens...and that with the most funded military and the most armed police force on earth.
If the US was to half its military spending it would still outspend its two largest adversaries.
@@samfetter2968 www.cnbc.com/2022/05/21/biden-signs-40-billion-aid-package-for-ukraine-during-trip-to-asia.html
@@samfetter2968 , and when was this? I can thank of France in the revolutionary War, and that's pretty much it, obviously other nations have fought beside us, but ever since nations, most other countries have sent minimal troops to most conflicts, so what countries are you talking about I'm interested in hearing this theory, I believe your full of shit, but I'm willing to here your side of the story, convince me of how you see it, maybe you'll change my mind
@@marvinsamples8236 lol...just google when has been NATO article 5 triggered.
That should give you an idea.
You can believe that I am full of shit all you want. Just makes you the obvious ignorant american that is so well known and laughed at around the world. 🤣
Nobody needs to change your mind. Just be strong in your ignorance...and provide the amusement that your type usually does.😆
17:18 The reason for this is simple, you cannot just make a medication and sell it. You have to have it approved first, many are patented so you cannot straight up copy them either. Because of how medications work, if you add things you can ruin it's effects. The amount of effort you would have to go through just to try and undercut someone is absurd and pointless when you know they can make it for 1/100th of the selling price. They could undercut you faster and more efficiently, forcing you out of the market before you even managed to make back the money you spent getting your drug approved. That is assuming that the other companies don't just block your approval with bribes in the first place.