Hey y'all! Hope you enjoy this video! I'm really big into the technical side of making videos so I'd really love if you could answer the poll in this video (or tell me here) whether you like the video with this warmer tone or rather how it usually is (in like every other video on my channel). :D Thanks!
I like the videos as they are and this one too, but I lack the technical expertise to be too emphatic about it! In the end, it is the content that matters. Thank you for the video. I have never been so early!
@@annejeppesen160 while good for Australia, with a bit of luck, the outback and the wildlife might have killed off the religious puritans by now if it had been the other way around...
@@andrewwade5655 and being persecuted because they wanted changes to make their fundamentalist religious views law, denounced natural human behaviour as sinful and were killjoys on all the holidays including banning Christmas
I am too European to understand that the Tri state area is a real thing and doesn't just exist in Phineas and ferb edit: yall can stop answeri g its been three month and theres like 30 ppl who have already answered
ever since seeing Phineas and Ferb I have thought all states could have a tri-state area if there was any reason to talk about a larger area. I never knew it was 3 specific states.
USA: We can't put different prices on the packaging, it would be too confusing EU: Having goods with labels in 6 different languages and 4 different currencies on the packaging.
For some reason, products in the US (ie. Books) also have the price in Canadian Dollars. It's not like they can't put two different prices on one item.
Hold up, we're not talking 2 or even 6, we are talking literally HUNDREDS. Did you not listen to the video? Not only does every state (50 of them, remember?) have their own taxes, but many counties, cities, or even subdivisions of cities, like the buroughs of NY, have their own taxes. It's utterly insane, and probably should get cleaned up by some sweeping federal law. It won't happen, because congress is insane, divided, and short sighted as hell, but that's the only way it will change. Also, and this is important, for some dumb ass reason, some places in America have laws that say you CANNOT include the taxes in the price. In NY state, we as sellers cannot pay sales tax for our customers. Why? IDK. Someone lobbied for a law. It's fucking dumb, but there you go. It's literally illegal for a nice soup selling stall to just pay that .06 for you. ILLEGAL. Why? Stupid, that's why. Why ask? It's always money and politics.
@@rossii2311 You're right here. Americans as people are actually quite nice. It always boils down to the fact that their government is working for the benefits of the few wealthy individuals... just like most countries in the world, actually. Still, there's some shit that simply wouldn't fly in my part of the world compared to America and I live in a post-commie shithole.
@@r4c3rx When somebody is going to say something stupid the word 'mainstream media' comes out. The US government tortured people in Guantanamo, It is a FACT. You do not have to agree with a fact because It is true anyway. Sorry if you do not like it. Moreover the use of the term POW show that you do not know anything about this topic.
As a German, I am regularly shocked by the healthcare system in the US. Now I don't wanna pretend like German healthcare has no room to improve....But 1000 dollars for an ambulance??? I heard somewhere that the average cost of childbirth is 10.000 dollars? Excuse me?
idk where that birth statistic is from but in my state (at least from what i learned from my health teacher and the adults i know) childbirth costs anywhere from $40,000 to over 1 million ... and that's with insurance 😳
Your health care is insane. You've had over 1000 cases of corona virus yet 0 deaths. The global death rate is 3.4% so you expect 34 people to have died. How is this even possible?
I’m from Wales, and in school we had 2 polish people In our class. They felt left out when we did welsh culture so the teachers did an entire lesson on polish culture just for them
meanwhile i moved 2,000 miles to a new state and my teacher gave me an F in the class because i didn't know the geography of their small town on the first day of school
Meanwhile I am Polish and live in NJ where they don’t give a flying fuck what country you are from, all they teach you about is how great America is and how much better it is than the rest of the world :))))
"Can't expect companies to have different information for different 'smaller' areas." American companies operating in Europe: "shh...don't let them know we've been doing this for decades all over the world."
Pretty much. When McDonald's makes a nationwide advertisement campaign of, say, McSomething at 3.99€ it's not the same cost depending on the city. 3.99€ in Madrid are not 3.99€ in Mérida or Soria. But they suck it up if the cost/profit margins are very different depending on location. They could do the same in the USA but since its customers there are already used to taxes-not-included prizes they take advantage of it.
@@rafarequeni822 Here it goes even a bit further. We have a reduced tax rate for specific things (like basic goods or takeout, but not restaurants) So if you buy a cheeseburger at McDonalds for 1€, you either pay 19% tax or 7% tax depending on if you order for eating there or as takeout, but the price is the same. So if you don't like them, you can totally order to eat in the restaurant, but take eat it on the go anyway, and because the tax rate is higher, they make less money with it.
Yet they expect the customers (local and foreign) to know all of that, instead of the people (accountants) who actually get paid to determine how much the product should be sold for! 🤦
Maria Nunes my home state’s governor veto a payed maternity leave bill because ‘no deserves a free vacation’. And also lowered maternity leave to 2 weeks (everyone asks why I don’t want to move back)
@@michaelfrazier7234 They seriously referred to it as a free vacation? Taking care of a baby isn't exactly a breeze. Parents (both women and men, tho for physical reasons mothers who've given birth even more) deserve to and should spend time with their newborn. It's good for creating a connection, for your own mental health, for the baby. No one should be punished for having children, instead society should encourage healthy family bonds. Women shouldn't have to fear losing their jobs if they get pregnant. They shouldn't have to choose between going to work days after giving birth or risking their financial situation by taking unpaid leave or using their sick days. This practice in the US is abhorrent.
im From Estonia and the maternity leave here is 18 months full pay + job position guarantee + monthly child money payments + starter pack with essential products and clothes
@@jessiea893 it isn't illegal to drink below the age of 18. (The minimum drinking age in the UK, is actually 5 years old at home/on private premises). It is legal for an adult to buy a child 16 years or older beer, wine, or cider to be consumed in a licensed premises, providing it is with a meal.
@@damionlee7658 yeah... I know. Lets be real pedantic people like you need to stop replying with the technicalities surrounding when you're legally allowed to start drinking. Anyone from the UK knows these laws as we've all probably used them so it is not needed. :)
The US can be wonderful! It's definitely not the best country in the world. It has its flaws, but every country does. Americans tend to be kind, friendly people. Our cities are gorgeous, and we have a very diverse nature selection to choose from such as: tropical, snowy, hilly, dry, almost everything you could think of. There's a lot of bad, but please don't generalize the whole country on some things you've heard. The UK health system is bad if you look into it, just like how the US health system is bad as well. I know that the United States isn't perfect, but it makes me sad to see people say that they hate or would never go to my country, when they've only every heard about it.
@@midnightrally357 I truly believe that it can be a beautiful country with wonderful people but those aren't things that would convince me to move there for the rest of my life. I'd like to visit sometime but the health care and other governmental stuff is just too bad for me to say "yeah this looks like a nice place to live."
@@frauleinzuckerguss1906 I'm inclined to agree with you, but if you look into it, the US is no more corrupt than tons of other popular countries such as the England and Austrailia, we just have different issues.
Midnight Rally That’s some good points, and yes there are wonderful parts to America, but I’m gonna have to disagree with you on the healthcare argument. Media likes to sensationalise any shortfall with the NHS, and it happens. It definitely needs better funding, but it’s full of motivated people with modern equipment, and those who need care are taken care of regardless of financial need, something the US severely lacks.
Europe is the home of brainwashing and it's still happening all over the continent. Ever been to Eastern Europe? it's a complete shit hole compared to the rest of Europe due to brainwashing.
no fuck this is literally what i see during my education in china lol(btw even over here you don't have to write essays about the fucking flag sure you're supposed to respect it and the army but it doesn't get in the way so much)
Why do states not want to be independent countries in their own right? They're big enough, rich enough. Europe has many countries significantly smaller than most States in USA, surely it is better to be independent, choose your own destiny rather than be a state which is ignored, badly treated by the US Government. E.g. Scotland does not like the London' Westminster Government's treatment so many Scots want independence.
@@j.a.mccready9273 the states are countries in all but name, that's why they are called states. Making the union legally a country was done in early days of counties as a concept and the US is the first of such a union, as such it made sense at the time to have the union powers be the federal government and each state would have their own and operate independently from each other state as a country. Prior to the civil war states were thought of as countries more so than today and would at times fight each other, but the unionized effort of fighting due to the civil war and collective struggle the whole union faced people started to identify the union as their country rather than with their state. It is a confusing mess due to the civil war separating from the union and treating a state as a legal country as been seen negatively, I suppose the war is still too fresh and the collective people have collective issues they want to address. Leaving the union is typically blown off as a right wing thing based on that history so typically only right wingers suggest anything like that, and certain states now rely on the union economically too, leaving the union would be taking away a shared economic responsibility and aid and separating support towards collective issues. The union identity has also allowed the US to even exist as a world power at all, especially post WW1. There are issues with all this, but I'm not sure they will be addressed during my life time
Mamma mia che cazzata vero? "background cristiano" ABBIAMO IL PAPA GENTE. ABBIAMO IL PAPA. (translation: that bullshit isn't it? "Christian background" WE HAVE THE POPE PEOPLE. WE HAVE THE POPE)
As a European living in the US (for the last 4 years), I actively avoid going to restaurants or ordering delivery just because it makes me extremely uncomfortable that the employees have to "beg" their salary off me in form of tips. I'm happy to pay it as part of the price, but having someone completely depend on me to decide whether or not they should be paid for their work is something that just puts me off the experience.
That is inaccurate. 100% inaccurate. In the United States, per federal law, IF your tips do not equate to you earning the minimum hourly wage your employer MUST make up the difference and pay you the difference. Unless you allow yourself to be taken advantage of and are not aware of your rights as an employee then you have no right at all to complain about not getting a tip cuz ‘$2/hr’. The amount of misinformation around this topic is insane. Most tipped employees will make way more than minimum wage assuming they do their job well. The tip wage only becomes an issue when you need a proof of income for say a car loan.
LovesEmbracce That doesn’t make any sense. If employers have to pay the difference anyway then why can’t they just pay a decent salary in the first place.
The law is (and it's possible he didn't know this when working a waiting job) that if you don't make enough with your hourly wage + tips to equal out to minimum wage, your employer is obligated to pay you the difference. So every wait staff employee is guaranteed minimum wage. For some jobs, I'll say I actually preferred being on tips. I worked for a few years as a bartender, and I made more on the tips than I would have made if tipping were not a part of the culture here.
@@anthonydelfino6171 the point is that wages shouldn´t be payed by costumers. This way a boss is trying to have you get as many tips as possible, so he pays less....And I can assure you that even in countries where you don´t have to tip, it can still be custom to do so, especially in restaurants, café´s, hotels and bars, but at least people do it because they like what you did without hovering over them and they can give what they think what it was worth. Just because you don´t have to, doesn´t mean people don´t appreciate you and don´t tip! This means you have minimum wages (and often more anyway, only teenagers are on minimum wages) plus tips and you can actually enjoy them because you don´t depend on them. No one in Europe needs to work more than one job, like some in the USA.
Tipping as a cultural thing goes beyond just expecting the customer to pay for the wait staff's salary. I don't disagree about the fact that the wait staff should just be appropriately paid in the first place... But as I understand it any restaurant who tries to change that ends up with the issue where the business has to charge more for entrees (since they charge less for the food since the overhead for wages is lower) which will lead customers to ask why they should pay you more for the same food? And it would take a shift in the mentality to realize that as part of this change, they are no longer expected to leave a tip. The problem is, basically, deeply ingrained, and so it will take more than even just laws to change this, it will take an entire change in the culture of eating out, and as I talked about, might actually meet resistance by some jobs that currently survive off tips if they realize they make less now than they did before as people stop tipping.
@@anthonydelfino6171 so just because it is difficult, one shouldn´t try to change it? Such mentality is exactly what keeps a country from developing for the better. Other countries have done it, it is possible, even if you start with just the more progressive states. Customers don´t have to pay more for the same food and bosses don´t and there is loads of profit on food anyway. Especially if you start to give normal size portions instead of so much you can feed a family of 5 from one plate and give a "doggiebag". If a boss can´t pay wages, he should not have personel and simply do everything him/herself. Also, people won´t stop tipping just because they don´t have to. Other countries also prove that.
"You can't expect companies to have all those different things for all these marketing areas." - Yeah but here in Europe we have smaller countries on that scale and here it works.
In the US taxes can vary down to the street. If I have two McDonald's for example and I place them directly across the street from each other (for some reason) depending on where exactly I am, a cheeseburger could be 1.03 on one side of the street and a 1.05 on the other. Now, you might think this doesn't matter, but it really does, because it affects everything at the logistics level. As well, because tax can vary so wildly in such a small area, it makes it logistically impossible to advertise an after tax price and guarantee everyone to be charged the same price they heard or saw. Before tax is much easier and it really is not difficult when you live with the system
@@Tormonir No, it's the same in the entire store. But logistics of actually doing it would increase costs so there's why they won't do it. You can argue all you like, if you visit the US or Canada, tax is not on the tag price and we are not wrong for doing it this way. We don't have a unified tax amount like the EU does
@@Tormonir sometimes it depends on the item, at least where I’m from. Different items are taxed at different rates. Also, if you’re supplying something to a different region, you would need to tax the good(s) using the destination rate.
@@MiriaJiyuu i still don't get it, it can be different in different streets in my country too, yet the company still calculates it. When I worked at a grocery store, if the prices are changed, they are sent to us, we come earlier in the morning, print them and change them. There's really no good reasons why customers should calculate the tax on every product they put in the basket.
I am Canadian and moved to Texas when I was almost 15. Dear.fing.god. I tried sitting for the pledge (legal) and the teacher and principal tried telling me I was breaking the law and threatening me with suspensions and such. They called my mum and made her cry saying I could be arrested then put her on the phone with me. They also rood me I couldnt have an atheist or secular club because they "don't allow hate groups" but would participate in creepy christian stuff trying to guilt students into attending or luring them with food. I was literally bullied by teachers and administrators, not other students, while there and we had school police who would treat us like crap. I saw kids being dragged away for having a joint with them trying to get them to say they were selling to friends (possession charge vs distribution is a HUGE DEAL). We weren't treated like people we were herded like cattle and treated like a constant inconvenience and unfortunate necessity for them to get paid. This was supposed to be a blue ribbon school. It's now being sued for human rights violations because of the flag stuff with another girl who's mom wasnt a scared depressed immigrant. It's insane to me the crap they think is normal there. They are training their people to tolerate authoritarian control and witnessing oppression and abuse of others around them. Also fun fact, racists are allowed to be teachers and you dont need special education to become one.
I'm too european to understand how some americans call Bernie Sanders a communist. I mean, from my European point of view he is just moderate left, and most of the things he defends feel like common sense.
Bernie Sanders wanted to take over an additional 25% of the US economy and rule over it from Washington. That is as communist as it gets. And nothing he defends are common sense. What he wants is to take from the productive, and give it to his political supporters. That is called theft.
Because some Americans use communist as an insult and to discredit other people, even though, or maybe even because they have absolutely no clue what communism is. They will side with companies even against their own interests. It's like they've collectively developed Stockholm syndrome. They love, defend and bend over for companies that exploit and abuse them.
You can't expect companies to make complex calculations to add different tax to their prices according to location? Eh, why can't you expect that? And how is it that it's totally reasonable to expect every single consumer to do math every time they buy anything?
I live in Texas and the sales tax rate can be different from one city to the next. There’s a state sales tax of 8%, but then cities can add up .25% sales tax on top of the 8%. While, it would be easy for companies to at least add the 8% to items sold in Texas, there would still be the city level sales tax to be calculated. I personally just always assume that the sales tax is 8.25% wherever I am when I bother to calculate the tax. Also, why would companies want to pay to have those calculations done? That would take money away from their CEOs and shareholders. (This was sarcasm for those of you who didn’t already see it.)
@@sherrymccleese7266 this it's just insane really. Almost everywhere in the world it works the other way around. Taxes are being add before and a product ( for example Pantene shampoo) cost the same all over the country in a chain store. It'd got to be so hard for people with small income.
Like the man says in the video, Money 😆 Companies aren't going to pay the cost to print all of the different signage if they don't have to. And they don't have to because all of their customers are used to adding it after.
@@sherrymccleese7266 And? In Poland, in one Żabka (such a chain of small shops), company X's milk costs 70 cents, in another 300 meters further it costs 50 cents, and in the next it will be for 35 cents, because it is a promotion.
I think it makes school more fun. I went to a charter school we didn't have any sports or school pride n stuff n I was always jealous of the public school people looked like they were having so much more fun lol
At times it seems like they are having fun more often than actually learning anything. And what's more baffling to me is every school seems so much different from the other, it's crazy. Different classes for different students in the same year and so many after school activities. They are also very competitive and will defend their school's "honor" no matter what, here in Europe people are much, much more chill. Oh and the whole prom king and queen thing is too competitive. (Maybe I watch too many American movies idk)
Movies very much over-dramatize it. This is (public) High School Specific: Cheerleaders aren't really that big of a deal; at my school it's just another dance elective. Sports are a big deal (not a huge one) for a couple of reasons, but the most important reason is: games are fundraisers (students going to games= money for the school district). There definitely is a "fun" aspect to school mascots and stuff. And as for custom uniforms (I'm really only thinking of sports), it's a lot more fun to see your team out there with distinct colors and a menacing animal on their chest than it is to see your team out there in the individual shirts they got at Big5SportingGoods. Often for sports, the school has uniforms from previous years for the players to wear (kinda gross, but whatever, they're clean). If you do get an individual uniform, you pay for it yourself and get to keep it once the season is over. Mascots are not necessarily a fursona, though they often are. Mascots also express regional pride. I live in an agricultural area, so our mascot reflects that (the costume is terrifying btw). Sports and cheerleading aren't the only things going on at a school. Often theater productions, concerts and dance shows are publicized just as much as games, there are just only 4 (maybe) theater productions a year where there are dozens of sports games. (Also, keep in mind that the people making highschool movies haven't actually been in highschool for a decade and least. I have no idea what American highschools were like in the 80's just like they really have no idea what highschools are like now.)
Because the idea here of what makes a good country is battered into people’s heads by the conservative corporate news media. Edit: This is largely runoff from the Red Scare/Cold War
at least they tip, here in Italy many employees are underpaid illegally and they don't get tips because everyone expects that you get minimum wage... ooh and slavery is also permitted here (not legal, but permitted)
I'm pretty sure waiters get most of their money from Tips from people in the first place. Not tipping a waiter is like saying they don't deserve to get paid at all.
@@timelordwarrior4394 but the idea of the tip is like a reward from the customer for exceptional service. Not just for doing their job. So yeah, that's why it is profitable to be a good waiter.
@@PropertyOfK you should tell the restaurants and companies that 😂. Sadly waiters barely get paid as much as the regular workers. Their pay is made up of most of the tips they get.
Actually yes, they could. I found a video before and American people was really on it that you have to pay them tip because they can't make enough t pay the bills. I was raised in Spain, and never something made so less sense than someone say to me if you go to xx place pay tips because they have shitty payment. If you say this here they will ask why you didn't take this to court and why should I pay for your service when literally this comes included in the bill already. It's like they don't know how price works, the bar or wathever place already includes the services and bill's they have to pay in the price + taxes. When I give a tip it means a bonus not for your boss but you and your great work, this makes people serve better. That's why is pretty common see people working as waitress for years, not because it's their first job or are students, but because they studied or like that job. My tip for them would be to get their rights, because living of pitty from your client won't get you anywhere, because people tip when they have money, and when don't you will have a sh@ pay.
Because guns are fun to shoot. We do have kinder eggs but they’re different from the rest of the world because the risk of getting sued if someone’s child chokes on the toy is too high. Why people can’t just watch their children better I have no idea.
Kindereggs are not banned in the US. They're always in the aisles of Walmart near the cash registers. They put them right where weary children can see them and beg their parents to buy them while they wait for a register to open up :)
Ugh. It's annoying. Like bro, cool there's soldiers going to war but y'all know we ain't thanking no one when you're forcing us to pledge to a flag when we get to school.
As an American, it’s wild. The words are weird too. “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”. When I learned that in preschool I 100% did not know what all those words meant. We just say it without thinking about it. You’re not required but you’ll get a lot of weird looks if you don’t do it
honestly as an American I’ve been saying it everyday at school since I first started school. Never really thought about it until now but I guess it is kinda weird.
My mum has always taught me that you learn with a manual. That way you can drive practically any car. If you only ever learn automatic you’ll never be able to drive a manual
1:20 "you can't really expect all these companies to..." but why not. It's actually quite typically American to always prioritise companies over the individual person.
Well money rules politics and corporations have more money that any individual. And the individuals that are extremely rich, *also* own corporations. I’m pretty sure it’s legal for a company to sue someone here? I don’t know; I remember reading something about that.
Taxes often change, within a county, city and town. The state doesn’t have the same tax in every town and city. In my city the tax is 7,5 next year will be up to 7,9. A town nearby ( but different state) has a 5,9 tax on clothing,but no tax on food. It varies so much, that’s why it is added afterwards.
"Not adding the taxes on top of it makes a lot of sense if you think about it" *goes on about describing the non unified tax system which basically gives companies a good reason to advertise false prices* PS: adding taxes on top right away is consumer protection, in germany. You never start such an argument from the perspective from a company. Because a company could simply even out the prices between states, if they wanted.
that's because in each country in europe there's a unified law throughout the country. that's not the case in america. each state has a completely different government, with completely different laws. there is no national tax. there are only different state taxes.
@@ih9799 It's even worse than that. Most cities have a restaurant tax on top of the state sales tax. And they can vary wildly. Buying a sandwich in my city costs an extra 12% in taxes, but the next city over it's 11% and another is 9%, and out in the county it's just the regular state tax of 6%. But groceries have a state sales tax of 2%, and cities aren't allowed to add on to grocery taxes.
I hated it whenever some people would pester me about getting a job while still in high school at the time, like I would rather enjoy as much free time as I could before graduating and getting a job.
The actual way to reduce traffic accidents is to make people do actual driving lessons with a licenced teacher and have actually hard tests afterwards. That's how Germany does it and it has worked good for us so far. Heck we don't have a maximum speed on parts of our Autobahn and er still have less traffic accidents per capita than the US. Also the TÜV is probably saving our asses too and keeping the really shitty and old broken cars off the roads.
Cool, but it honestly wouldn't work here. Our infrastructure is garbage. Where I live, the nearest bus is 30 miles away, the nearest cab is only 25 miles away, and the roads are not equipped for bikes. If you required more training and didn't government fund it (which we wouldn't) all you would accomplish is keeping the poor off the roads.
@@Victoria-kp5mk Weird. In the UK, there are taxis (as in black cabs, but not exclusively) and private hire cars. You can book either, but only taxis have a license to pick up a fare, and taxis are generally limited in where their licenses allow them to do that.
the thing that irritates me the most about the U.S. is this "the US is the best country in the world" attitude. There's nothing wrong with appreciating the country you live in, but this amount of patriotism makes people blind to the things that are bad/could be better. There's no room for improvement when there's no room for critique. another thing that's maybe connected to the whole patriotism thing is the problem with the confederate flag. I can't for the life of me understand why taking down those statues/flags is such a problem for some people. Being from Austria I have some experience with being from a country with a very problematic history and we didn't take responsibility for what we did for a long time, but now it's not even up for debate that what our ancestors did during WWII was horrific and must never happen again. It sometimes seems to me that some Americans see it as an attack on themselves when people want confederate flags/statues removed, but it's not. My great-grandfather was a Nazi. That doesn't make me a bad person. If some of your ancestors were slave owners it doesn't take you a bad person either. But as a descendants it is our responsibility to do better and to be aware of our history and what it did to other people. (oh and if any Americans are reading this: please don't think that I think that every American thinks like that. I know that's not the case. Also: do you have an explanation for why this is such a problem?)
Possibly it is related to the illusion of control that is ingrained American culture (for example, the concept of changing your socioeconomic class based on your level of effort). It is very hard for many Americans to accept that one cannot control the past. To overcome cognitive dissonance, is much easier to superimpose a narrative of pride on the past.
I mean we don’t just get upset about the confederate flag, nazis weren’t even apart of our ancestry but if someone was to hang the nazi flag we’d have a problem with it. We do acknowledge the past, I’ve learned about confederates every year for the past 6 years. The problem people have with the statues and flag is what it represents. It represents the confederacy and what it stands for, so why would we put up a flag of people that a. Didn’t support our country, and b. Had very morally wrong beliefs. (Mind you I am not putting my own opinion into this these are just opinions I have heard from other people)
@@Fluffyan "To overcome cognitive dissonance, it is much easier to superimpose a narrative of pride on the past." - so simple yet so hard to understand for people doing it.
@@130659N i think you misunderstood the original post. Lisa isn't asking why you have a problem with confederate flags. But why some US-Americans are angry when confederate flags or statues are removed! She is in favour of the removal! Just as we here in Europe would not keep Nazi-statues standing (at least I hope we have removed most of them...)
"Different states have different tax systems." Well unless your restaurant happens to be located directly on the border between two states, I fail to see how that's relevant.
It’s an added cost for restaurants to have different menus, ads, etc. for every county/state they have a location in. Instead you just know the tax amount for your area and add it on to the advertised price
@@spschol I mean they have to print those menus anyway. Doesn't seem like it's actually any extra bother, especially in the modern age when computers can do it all. To me it just seems like a marketing ploy to make prices look lower
The sick days thing is really weird. Herre (sweden) you stay home when you're sick and you get payed 80% of your normal salary. And that's fine with me
yeah, in Poland I've worked for a nice company that even paid the extra 20% (AFAIK normally the 80% is covered by the government/taxes, not the employer) so you got full pay on sick leave (unless you were out for like over a month or something, there's different rules for long term sick-leave)
Yeah, in Denmark if we're sick, we stay home. At full pay. And u cant get fired for being sick too much, unless u have 120 sick days in 1 year. In fact, most place employers actively encourage ppl to stay home, when theyre sick, coz they dont want the co-workers to get infected!
What I‘m too European to understand is: Some politicians are actually against an affordable medical insurance - and lots of people actually vote for them.
Massive well-funded propaganda campaigns is basically your answer. Americans pay more for healthcare than anybody, yet do you have any idea how many Americans will turn around and argue that they can't afford public healthcare?
@Saffron Sinclair Except it doesn't. You can simply choose not to tax people below a certain income threshold, like many other countries do, or like the USA does for other taxes. Also, you're ignoring that you still have to pay for healthcare whether you like it or not, and you already pay more than all those countries with public healthcare. You're acting like no other country has poor people. I have no idea why Americans suffer from this inability to realize that they're not special.
Europen here, my recent experience (like from 2019, 2020): - problem with my ear, appointment with a specialist - in 2 days - feeling sick - the same day in the afternoon - couldn't talk, laryngitidis - the next day... It of course depends on what specialist you want to see (alergology, digestive system have longer waiting times), but many have very short waiting times. Czech Republic
Hungarian here, we have crappy healthcare here compared to other countries. I had the same treatment as the Czech guy. I even got my Corona-shot the day after registering. I could even book for the same day but it was kind of late.
@@gaaraati Yeah, your hospitals or literally most terrifying places on Earth. Like... My friend is from US but lived in Budapest for vast majority of his life and stories he told me about Hungarian hospitals are just shocking. And it's not like I'm German or Finnish to be picky... I live in Poland so I know a thing or two about crappy healthcare xD
it's because it's the "United States" of America. 50 different states, with completely different laws and practices, that are loosely tied together by a weak federal law, and only come together when facing foreign countries. otherwise the states usually compete with each other and have their own rivalries
Look at it kind of like how the EU is joined. Each state has its own government, economy, and laws (just like every country does there) but we are mostly united under a federal government (hence the name: **United** states). States are united but act independently. Its more of a checks and balances thing. The state government can make a law but the federal government can make an amendment that overrides it. There are 2 main reasons for this: 1)It would be difficult for one government to control all of the different regions and cultures that span across the country. We are too big. And even as one nation we are culturally different. As a Texan, Californians seem different just as my thinking and way of life may seem different to a New Yorker. 2) We started out as 13 separate colonies with different economies, cultures and laws. and in the beginning the articles of confederation put power in each individual states hands. It didn't work. They needed a central currency and leadership. Because of the environment and slave labor southern states specialized in agriculture. Northern states had their own specializations so they needed to trade and get along. Whats better to get along then establishing a central government? The new constitution (the one we have now) also prevented fighting between colonies/states. Of course this whole "checks and balances" thing comes with problems. Our government is corrupted and sometimes one side doesn't know what the other is doing. But there is little we can do to change that as a citizen 🤷🏾♀️.Recently, This is how COVID-19 ended up spiraling out of control here. Some states closed others opened. There are more reasons why the states can act separately but I think this comment is long enough. But I hope this very long comment answers your question.🤗
I love how Americans call the US “the greatest country on earth” even though around 50% of Americans have never actually left the US and most of the ones who have left end up going to places like Mexico which is a third world country. I also love the fact that Americans think that owning a gun is a right because it was written on a piece of paper over 200 years ago when guns had a rate of fire of about 3 rounds per minute.
There were guns back then that could hold up to 20 shots (Girardoni air rifle), as well as early machine guns such as the puckle gun. I guess the first amendment's got to go or be heavily restricted as the founding fathers only wrote with ink and paper, having never anticipated the invention of the television, internet, and tiktok (sarcasm).
@@FirstnameLastname-sb9uv why is it so religiously upheld. Why can't they be self critical and modify and change it to suit the modern day. I rlly don't get it
@ahab The same reason we don't have universal health care - money! The large majority of people want more regulations on guns, but people pay politicians to fight against regulation. I feel like you could have figured that out from the video. Virtually anytime a foreigner ask why we do something they find weird it's about money.
@@k.tanagatari I've met some Chinese-American exchange students, who did this. My theory is that it's an American thing that sticks after a few generations🧐 (There were 7 of them, 5 did wear shoes inside and were third gen+ Americans. I know that 7 isn't much of a case study but it made scenes).
WTF 2.13 dollars an hour!! That really should be illigal, just wow. I live in the Netherlands, and since finishing off school, I have been full-time waitering and I earn 11 euros (12.48 dollars) an hour!!! I also get my monthly tips and extra "vacation money" (it's some extra money you get when you work during vacations and on Sundays)... wow I really can't get over the 2.13 an hour. It's inhuman!
I've never heard of that low a wage before. I live in CA, and the minimum wage here is $12. It's still pretty low, though, if you consider the living costs.
Federal law requires minimum wage. Restaurants pay less and expect the tip to make up the difference. if the tip does not make up the difference, they are required to pay the difference to minimum wage.
@@ih9799 How? Oh I don't know, the same way the rest of the developed world and most of the developing world has adopted them? Idk just spitballing here.
@@ih9799 that argument with the jobs is nonsense. you would need the same amount of people, or even more for a free healthcaresystem. but they would be employed by the system , not the privat investor who wants to have big profits
@@ih9799 To be fair I don't blame him for not knowing how to institute such MASSIVE change. The stuff he wanted to do was extremely complicated to do. Though I still do wish he won even despite that. He would've been able to do some of it. Or at least normalized the ideas so they could be more easily implemented later.
If I told someone that North Korea or China forced children to pledge their loyalty to their country every morning at school, they'd think it was some dictatorial nightmare. Put an American coat of paint on it and suddenly you're bad if you don't want to stand for the pledge.
@HDTDNOVIV sure, like that really ever works when you have peer pressure actively forcing you to comply or get ostracised or outright targeted by both students and teachers for the rest of your time in that school. One person (especially one from a minority) tries not to do it and they will be going through shit for a long long while and even some of the teachers get in on it. (At least that was how it was explained to me by an American friend from school who lived in a rural area in America till he was 14, when his family moved to europe, honestly cannot remember which state he was from but he didnt have any of the steriotypical accents)
@@HDTDNOVIV youre not required to in china either im chinese my public school only had a flag-raising event once a week and you don't have to say anything just watch
I'm so European that I didn't expect to learn new swear words or receive literal death threats when I politely questioned some of the Trump administration Covid responses on RUclips.
@@ArtsyMagic239 actually what the two party has done is truck everyone thinking center right and far right are total opposites. Still what washington was against, but certainly not for the perceived double extremism that is actually one sided extremism
that "the states have different tax systems" reason to not add tax automatically to price, doesn't make any sense. Europe does not only have different tax systems in close proximity, we also have a plethora of different languages and we manage just fine.
It's like shops close to inner-Schengen-boarders suddenly not advertising prices with taxes because someone from one village over (and therefore one country) over might see them? Or not? The system makes my brain melt...
Americans have a weird habit of explaining away their problems by asserting the USA is a uniquely complicated snowflake of a country, even when there are dozens of examples of places which have solved that exact problem.
Sales taxes in the US are even more splintered, I give them that, with not only national differences, but county and city differences. Still, having at least both prices labeled in store seems a minimum.
@@barvdw You do realise that that doesn't apply solely to US? European countries also have counties with their own taxes. That's just a reason to add the tax automatically to the tag. How confusing must it be, if the taxes change so much within such a small area. How does one keep up with it?
I'm European, and yes, I know that cities and counties have different taxes here, too, but the VAT is nationwide the same, as are taxes on alcohol or tobacco, and that's what we're talking about here. There's no city sales tax of 0.1% on groceries, or a 0.3% county tax on alcohol in the EU. And I agree, leaving it out is not making it less confusing, at least the prices all taxes included should be on the price label in the stores, not just on the final bill. Publicity can be adapted to this situation, it is not as if all stores in the same chain always have the same prices anyway.
Then pay up. Pay your fair share of defending Europe. Pay your fair share of drug development. Pay your fair share of defending the sea lanes. Please Europeans, stop. Put up or shut up.
Light House Could you tell that to the illegal immigrants constantly bombarding our southern border with people too? Seems they haven’t gotten the memo yet that america is actually super terrible and no one should want to live here
Nothing is forcing you have troops in Europe except the military industrial complex. You do deals with europe because America wants to be in Europe so they have more control.
When I was 19, I told my boss I felt like I was going to throw up. She told me "You're not going home early." I projectile vomited on the cash stand 5 minutes later. She sent me down to wardrobe to get a clean shirt..... That was fun (for the record, I knew I was not contagious as did my boss. I had a migraine triggered by perfume, but still.)
I had a similar experience once but I'm from the Netherlands. I was feeling ill suddenly at work, I went to get some water, but on the way it got worse and I threw up in the trash can. I was sent home immediately.
Not being able to take maternity leave for longer than a few weeks. We take have at least 9 months off, with at least half pay. That’s insane as a mum! You need at least 6 months off to recover let alone bond with your child[ren].
UK has shared maternity/paternity leave now iirc which also means the dad gets to support the mum a lot more and bond with baby - this is a huge thing, I've male friends who hated their newborn child until it was able to speak "just a bag of flesh that poops itself and screams", paternal bonding is thankfully now seen as more important these days than it ever was before. It's down to the couple to split it how they'd like.
Kara Russell and in the US it’s unpaid as well. Many new moms can’t afford to take the maternity leave they are allowed, because it’s unpaid and most are living paycheque to paycheque.
@@DontTrippMe That's absolutely mad. In Finland the mother gets at least 105 days of paid leave and then there's 50 more days of paid parental leave that the parents can share as they like. After that you can stay home with your kid on a government paid leave without losing your job until the kid is 3 years old. So in theory you could have about 4 years of paid leave and then just go back to work. Of course the government paid leave isn't your whole salary but it's something you get by with, especially if the other parent is still working. For an example my mom was on a government paid parental leave for 5 years after having me and my brother and then when my brother turned 3 she went back to the work she had left 5 years earlier. My dad was working the whole time though.
Just advertise the burger as $1.20 everywhere. Then, depending on the tax in the state, adjust the price behind the scenes so it comes out as $1.20 with taxes
@@yolacintia Same reasoning: adjust the prices so the car comes out as 22000 everywhere. Sucks that it gets more expensive, but it works. And I for one am happy to decrease my standard of living by a few percent of it gives me planability
A company has no reason, no incentive, to lose money. Ever. And having a universal price across all tax regions would either lead a business abandoning higher tax regions entirely or raising the price of a product in every region to match the area with the highest tax.
Honestly, though, about the taxes: that really shouldn't be a big deal. European countries have different tax rates too, but international manufacturers or stores selling their products add them pretty much everywhere. I don't think it would be any different if the states wanted to do the same.
I don't know what it's like there but in the US taxes arent just different across states. Each county and even city will have their own additional taxes added onto grocery stores, resturaunts, etc. A McDonalds cheeseburger will be a slightly different price in my town than in the neighboring one and even more so if I leave the county. Sales tax on groceries is 9 cents where I live, while in the next town over it's 11 cents. Don't get me wrong, it's dumb but at least there's a reason for this one.
@@lol2Dlol the only reason for it, is advertising by chain stores! Nothing stops each individual shop to show you the after-tax price. And the advertising issue could be solved by selling the same product all over the country at the same price by adapting the before tax price.
I agree. Different countries in Europe have different consumer tax rates, and all taxes are added on the price on things you buy in stores. The tax rate is fixed from the government in that country. If course you can buy the same thing in different stores in different cities for different amount of money, but the tax rate is always the same, and included in the price.
@@lol2Dlol that's even more reason to show the actual price including tax when in store. Printed advertising can have the note at the bottom stating tax additional but that is different to walking in and having to guess how much tax is going to be added to my bill.
@@lol2Dlol well in Europe companies don't set a price which looks nice and then add taxes but rather set a price they want the product to have (e.g. 19,99€) and then subtract the taxes from it to get it's correct price. But shown to the customers is the full price incl. taxes because that's what the product actually costs for the customers. Same could be applied to the US. Just set a price e.g. a cheesburger for 2.99$ and then each store calculates the taxes individually and gets their normal price. So in one store the burger itself costs 2.90 and in the neighbouring town it costs 2.88. But for consumers it always costs 2.99 incl. taxes
I’m too European to understand why Americans always go on about how great their country is. I really can’t think of a single thing that other countries don’t do vastly better.
Let's see, medical care, innovation, protecting the world, setting the world economic house in order; I can't think of anything any country does better than the US.
@@goodjohnpanda3958 You don't seem to understand medical care. You get "Potemkin Care" in Europe. It looks like care, but it isn't. Look at prostate cancer mortality in the UK compared to the US: 50 % higher. Look at where Nobel prizes are being awarded. Look at breast cancer mortality in Italy: 65% worse than the US. Where am I getting these numbers? From the EuroCare 5 study. That showed that the US had better survival rates in each and every type of cancer when compared to the SEER rates in the US.
Christian Libertarian men from the UK can get a free prostate screening/examination from their GP at the first sign of trouble, thus the people that haven’t got it checked out are already too advanced for treatment to be wholly effective. Also, there’s so much institutional racism that i would put money on a large amount of cases from POC or poorer areas are just being disregarded. Where’s the study for those mortality figures btw? Would genuinely like a link to read it myself. Edit: spelling
When I worked at Domino's, you got paid $4.45 when delivering, and $7.25 when in the store. You would hit a button when you confirm grabbing the order, and then n hit it again when you got back. That button would switch you between the two pay types. I once caught my boss hitting my button, swapping me from $7.25 to $4.45 while I was in the back doing dishes. When I called him out, he started threatening to fire me. So, I just never showed back up. Jokes on him, I was only working there as a side gig, I was doing computer repair full time, and the delivery job was just extra money plus exercise Edit: the place actually caught fire a few months later due to the bad wiring in the office I TOLD HIM ABOUT, AND HE REFUSED TO FIX
The length of TV ads. In US you get two minutes of the show and 20 minutes of ads, then another two minutes before the next ad break. EU has legislation that controls the maximum length of ad breaks and how soon you can have the first ad break after the previous one.
"the UK is just as bad with universities" Actually, you get student finance from the government and it comes out of your taxes, you pay a really small amount if you earn £25K+ if you work in the UK and the debt gets automatically wiped in 30 years Fun fact: most students never fully repay their debt
OR Scotland, tuition is free but with the usual loans if you need them. Ofc the idea of the "free" tuition is that you get a better job and pay it back in your tax which is better imo.
Nah he said it's also bad though not as bad as the USA and like sure we can get student finance and stuff but in the last 20 years the cost of uni has tripled twice you know? So like even though it could be worse it could be far better and the 9000 a year plus living expenses does stop people from going to uni so clearly it is an issue
@@ih9006 but it's not really 9000 because we never actually pay it back... whereas US student loan companies hunt you down and dont care if you've lost your job they still want their money.
Most students never fully repay their debt in America either but that’s because it’s so egregious they are likely to die before all the interest is payed off
About stick shift: as a Finn it's just nice to be able to control the gears myself. All automatics I've driven tend to switch to a higher gear when the RPM is juuuust a bit too small. It's fine if you're driving on highways and just accelerate to highway speed once and then cruise, but driving in the city and constantly going slowly up small hills (that can be icy), the RPM seems to never be quite enough to be comfortable. Same if I want to accelerate faster: a turbo-diesel (ok the US drives those damn gas-guzzlers) engine is a bit sluggish if you switch to 3rd gear too early. When I accelerate to highway speed quickly (ramps are short), the acceleration is just faster when I stay in 2nd until I'm going like 55kph. On icy roads it's also easier to keep control when the car won't do anything by itself that could surprise me. Speaking of the gas-guzzlers: WTF?! Why would you want to drive something that takes 10L/100km? 4-5 is where it's at. I don't care if your gas is irresponsibly cheap and technically allows it, it still costs more if you have to buy double the amount! That money can buy me more video games, why would I waste it on gas?
I will never understand how lobbying is just something that everyone has accepted At least our politicians have the decency to take bribes in the shadows and not tell anyone
Because it's not something that, legally, we can stop. Lobbying exists as an extension of freedom of speech. It exists both for corporate interests, but also on the side of minority groups trying to get their voices heard.
Lobbying, in and of itself, isn't a bad thing. Writing to your leader about an issue you care about is lobbying. The problem is graft, corruption, and valuing corporate interests above human ones.
I’m not being rude when I say that America is a “first world” country through modernisation alone. In almost every other area they cannot be considered a first world country. Healthcare, money, education, and physical resources are so poorly distributed it is no surprise that a huge amount of the population live below the poverty line. 78% of Americans live pay check to pay check which is pretty disgusting to be honest; the percentage in the U.K. is currently 31%. I’m finding it less surprising why communist countries are getting stronger economies and fight capitalism tooth and nail, when the American example of capitalism is so bad. It also explains the high rates of religion. The % of the population practicing religion is almost entirely inversely proportional to a countries level of education and wealth. American religious fervor is comparable to most third world African countries, not modern democracies.
This is something I learned a while ago. When deciding where to travel I group USA with authoritarian countries. America leads the way! In per capita imprisonment and military spending...
Wealth distribution most certainly is not a goal here in the U.S. lol That’s why it’s poorly done! We let big monied interests control our elections and then of course, the incentive to distribute wealth is greatly diminished. Most rich folks want to hold onto that wealth in the U.S. What annoys me is those kind of folks seem to miss the interconnectedness of society. It’s like they think they can live in their gated communities above the fray while the plebes toil out of sight forever.
Communist countries rarely have successful economies. See, in China it also only works because of exploitation (which... very Capitalist of them). The other strongest economies aren't communist, they often represent a mixture of free market combined with socialist measures to fix or "balance" the social instabilities that occur with the free market.
They actually aren't 'spose to incorporate it onto clothing at all. It is against the code. Even the little flag (half an inch long) on my military-style boots from Wal-mart are in violation of this. *shrugs*
You cannot expect companies with actual legal departments to figure out sales tax, but individuals with no particular legal background and a lot less time to do so will have no issues. Spot on American logic
To be fair, a company would have to adjust every item in pretty much every county according to the local sales tax where a person only needs to know their local sales tax, it’s far easier for individuals to do it from a logistical sense, that being said there are certainly plenty of people too dumb or lazy to do that.
seigeengine The tax rate in the USA can not only varies from state to state but from county to county and even city to city. I’m not sure how tax rates are broken down in other countries but in the US that makes it easier to just have the consumer figure it out given how impractical and unwieldy it becomes to make a different price tag for the same item in, at best, every state and, at worst, every individual store. Regardless, let’s oversimplify the issue instead of giving people a degree of accountability for understanding their local sales tax.
@@wolftamerwolfcorp7465 ... It's basically the same everywhere else too. I'm not oversimplifying anything. You're making excuses for an immoral and malicious system.
seigeengine >malicious A company can’t make a price spike that coincides with a tax increase to fool the people who don’t have any form of critical thought which means people know that if the written price increases then it’s thanks to the company, the inverse is also true where the company isn’t held accountable for something that is solely the fault of a tax rate increase but no, there’s only bad things about the way the USA does things.
Born and raised in the U.S. and have lived abroad for over ten years due to work, Europe and Asia. Live in any country long enough and you start to see the cracks, but it also helps you see things from a different point of view.
"Why would you want to not educate people?" Because then they'd stop being such gullible sheep and might actually vote in a way that benefits them instead of just voting how their corporate overlords want them to.
Maybe just maybe, college is an outdated and unnecessary process to achieve a goal that you can otherwise achieve without submitting yourself to authoritarian rule. The only reason to go to college in this era is if you want to work in medicine, stem, or education. Every other occupation does not require a degree of any kind. Every piece of human knowledge is on the internet. I've watched enough college lectures online to have a doctorate by now, and I had to pay noone for the opportunity.
Nikolai508 depends where you are in the country. Some states are pretty secular and religion is something you don’t really see, but then there’s states (particularly an area called the Bible Belt, aka southern states) that are very religious and apply religious ideals in laws
Take a look into the origin of the New England colonies in particular and you'll see that "secular values" had nothing to do with it. The Founding Fathers may well have established a country based on secular values, but that's not what the country was built on.
We're not, our politicians use it as a way of gaining votes by telling 1 group that the other group is trying to take something away from them. There are entire industries built to do just that.
A simplified explanation could be: They distrust, even hate, government. Since government isn't religious, being overly religious is an anti-government ideology.
But then again, it all depends on the teaching and attitudes behind the religeon. During the Victorian age in the UK, quaker factory owners saw the damage that poverty, poor housing, expensive healthcare and little or no education wreaked on the workforce. How could they ease their consciences and increase profits at the same time? They realised that a healthy and happy workforce was a productive one. From Port Sunlight to Bournville, towns and villages were built to give their workers decent housing, healthcare and education. They were rewarded by a loyal and hardworking workforce. It was an old biblical principle of you get back more than you give. This, in time, gave birth to the welfare state. Education, pensions, free healthcare at point of delivery, social security and care homes. Care for the populace from cradle to grave. The adversarial dog eat dog economy leaves a lot of hungry, angry people. On the whole, people turn to religeon when they feel hopeless. If they feel their prayers are not being listened to, they get angry and start to doubt. So starts the decline.
@@benkoskinen3871 Even people who lean more left on social issues thinks that society will burn to the ground if we bothered treating human beings with dignity and respect. The Red Scare still leaves a scar on the country.
Always I see people complaining “why doesn’t school teach you how to do useful things, like how to do your taxes?” And I’ve been thinking, why do you need to know how to do your taxes, they’re just taken out of your wages automatically? Unless you’re self-employed, in which case you’ll probably need to hire an accountant, why would you need to know how to do taxes? Turns out all those people complaining were Americans. Wack.
Our taxes get taken out of our wages automatically too. The issue is, sometimes we get more taken out of our paychecks than we actually owe. This can be for a lot of different reasons, for example tax breaks from living situations(being a full-time student, having a child etc.). So each year you file a tax refund to get back the money you overpaid for the previous year. This is what people are referring to when they talk about "doing your taxes".
@C J Of course we europeans are ignorant on this matter ... because we don't file taxes idiot. I am also ignorant when it comes to car engines, because I'm not a mechanic. As for "but you think you know whats going on" yeah, we do ... in our own country - dipshit.
@Sa rah as another German I feel the same way. Filing my taxes got me a yearly refund of hundreds of euros during college each year. So yeah I wish I had learned how to do that somewhere
@C J why are you so defensive about this though? most Americans agree it's a stupid pointlessly bureaucratic system. It's ridiculous that I have to pay TurboTax $60 just to send a piece of paper to the IRS asserting the fact that I overpaid in taxes for the last year, which is something they already know, just to get that money back. By rights, for the vast majority of people who get traditional w-2s from their employer, taxes really should be automatic.
Hey mate....I randomly came across your video “why you’re done with RUclips” and learned that you were also an American living abroad and recent UK citizen...it intrigued me to check out your channel and I can relate a ton to your experiences and mindset.. I’m originally from west coast US and living in France for +7 years and recently became French so I understand these European /American videos ... I’m a new subscriber and hope your RUclips issues get worked out soon so you keep making bomb videos! Cheers!
Evan: why does everyone drive manual cars? It's unnecessary THE UK: moneyyyy If you learn automatic you can only drive automatic cars. If you learn manual you can drive any car
That's because you need experience to drive manual well. An automatic driver would have no experience in controlling the clutch, however a manual driver could use an automatic. It is simply more dangerous to go from automatic→manual than manual→automatic.
Solution: don’t buy/sell manual. Make them go out of date. Two, why would I go drag or drift racing. I didn’t know about the fuel efficiency. But now I’m reading more modern versions of automatic cars can beat manuals in fuel efficiency. (Don’t get me wrong, but I also want to learn manual just for fun).
@@don_p7546 I honestly can't remember the last time I ate dinner out. Maybe it was 4 years ago :P I eat brunch at cafées once or twice a year though. And I eat take-away twice a year (The day after new years eve and the day of a carneval here, where we drink from 7am untill evening/night). The average dane orders a little more take-away than me though. I'm danish.
Believe me when I say, that living in snowy mountains (like switzerland) you truly learn to appreciate a gear lever giving you complete control over the car 😂
6:35 In any situation in the UK where the flow of traffic would be improved by allowing cars to turn left while other traffic is going, we use filter lights. They're much easier to understand for me, are explicit and are built into the light network so there's no people using their judgement (which is where all the accidents happen). I definitely prefer that to having someone just appear to try kill me for no reason.
It's so interesting for me to be an American living in Ireland because I am constantly attempting to explain America to my friends and usually failing miserably
I’m Irish and there is nothing he said that I didn’t already know about America. Maybe you’re not good at explaining things clearly so people can understand if they question you. It’s like Americans think we all have red hair and have drink problems. Lol 😂
@@letitiakearney2423 Dude, just because you might know more about the US than the people she's with doesn't mean she's perpetuating the Irish Stereotype 😂
@@JKat94 It's a massive country with more diversity (in certain places) than almost anywhere else in the world. This naturally lends itself to a complex, complicated system that requires compromise. Far from perfect, but not bad. Also movies and media over-sensationalize and dramatize a lot of American culture.
I remember my first time (and only time) going to america. On the flight i saw the weather forecast and it said it was gonna be 100 degrees the whole week. And i got really confused, i genuinely thought we were gonna burn to death 😂
I once said something to my brother along the lines of “apparently it’s 83 degrees today” and he just looked confused and realised I meant Fahrenheit. The hottest recorded temp in Celsius is 58-63 in Death Valley...
To be fair 100F kinda feels like burning to death and it can in fact kill you from heat stroke. I know some people live in places where it's that hot the whole summer. It only gets that hot 1-2 days a year where I live!
@@harmonicaveronica That’s about 38C (well technically 37.8C). That’s definitely hot as shit, but there are many places around the world where that’s a semi-normal occurrence lol. Hearing ‘100 degrees’ is like I’m expecting to be able to cook lunch with a pan on the driveway. But really it’s less than 40C, so way too hot for me to leave anywhere with air conditioning, but I actually understand the temp and know what it means.
I’ll never forget the time when I went to hire a car in FL (I was working there for a year. I’m from Northern Ireland). Was talking with my friend about how I’d never drove an automatic car, that I was so used to manual. The taxi driver literally turned round with a shocked look on his face and said “you can drive stick? But you’re a girl”
7:00 yes it is in Europe but they mean they are speaking for Finland not Europe as a whole. Again, Europe includes many different cultures you can't combine them into one
Imogen Lumping the whole of Europe together always kinda irritated me. Yes we’re all white, yes we all interacted w/ each other since forever, but we’re still all too different to be lumped together, different cultures and traditions, different languages, even different religions. Generalizing Europe really makes no sense.
@@FireGriffon It's kind of the beauty of Europe, though. Look at a globe and see just how tiny Europe is and consider how much culture we have here. I like the idea of a European Union when it comes to ease of travel, trade and work within Europe, but I'd hate to see an actual singular European country in the style of America or Russia.
Okay but jsyk, this is how Americans feel about states and Europeans are always referring to the USA as one monolith despite us treating our states nearly as independent as EU countries lol
Fun fact, when I was a server at Black Bear Diner I got written up for calling in because I woke up with strep throat and literally couldn’t talk. I had to go to the dr and get antibiotics and everything, but nope. Next shift my manager and supervisor both sat me down at a booth and told me I could either sign my write up pretty much saying “yeah I messed up because I got sick how dare I” and if I didn’t sign it I didn’t have a job anymore. I never signed it and got another job within a week.
侶冴え天 (Ryosaeten) yeah, you think there’s no country fucked up more than this but you then look over to China with their surveillance system and concentration camps for Uighurs...
@@dj.samsam_ exactly what I say when people start making America sound so terrible like ...... 😂 Um how come no one is hating on China as much as America?
@@sc_arriola382 I thing it might be the fact, that USA is a democracy, so it should know better, when China is a communist country (is it a dictatorship? i dunno).
@@lenula1 it's a dictatorship, more or less. top tip for recognising communist states: they have no government AT ALL... also there aren't any. never have been, sadly. amusingly the ideal of communism is not that much unlike that of libertarianism: no state, just free people. but ofc in communist theory there's an assumption that a socialist state has set up things like healthcare &c properly & is now no longer needed to run it. also: for samd.: the uk has more of a surveilance state than china. & anyway 'we aren't as bad as china' is hardly a boast.
As a bartender I've worked with the flu, diarrhea, wisdom tooth infection, food poisoning, etc. If I tried to call out sick I was at risk for getting my job. So, hope none of yall got sick. I washed my hands every possible second of my shift.
Those exist in the USA too, but they’re mostly found for left turns because of the whole “right turns on red being allowed with some prerequisites unless otherwise posted” policy.
I think those green arrows originated in the GDR (or at least ossies claim that), so currently they exist in Germany, too, but might get removed completely because of people who don't stop or don't respect pedestrian right of way and just think "oh, green arrow means always green, haha car engine go brr."
i thankfully did my first degree in the uk when it was still free. Universities began charging in 1998. I did the first degree in 2000 and they "waived" the fees for me as i had high school grades and had moved cross country for the course. they also paid my rent and gave me a monthly stipend for food :)
Melissa So in that case you would call it horse bareback riding There’s horse back riding and horse bareback riding, both still unnecessarily telling the person they should sit on the back of the horse, don’t wanna make that mistake.
I would say riding horses but never horse riding because that just sounds weird, if horse comes before riding than I would have to say horseback riding.
The difference between horse back riding and bareback riding is that horse back riding is WITH a saddle, and bareback is without. "Horse back riding" doesn't exactly refer to the action of riding a horse but rather the style of riding the horse. Similarly, in the US the term "riding" is less of the action itself, and more of how you're going about doing the action. You can ride side saddle, horse back and bareback. On the more athletic side of it, you can ride bareback(again) or saddle bronc (and a few more). But I also think that since America has such a strong history with horses, wagons trains, and obsession with manifest destiny, that it may have originally been used in the terms of (once again) how you're riding, whether it be further up the horse, at the base of its neck, or on its actual back. Also, to put a difference between riding on the actual horse (I think the "horse back" part really hammers it in that you're on the horse) versus riding on something (like a wagon) that's being pulled by the horse. As one more little side note, I think that "riding" (at least in American english) refers to some sort of plural, and just "horse" is singular, so it sounds a little odd to us to say "horse riding". (I feel it's more common to say riding like "We're going riding.", but if you were alone you'd say "I'm going for a ride.", it's just more common to phrase it like that)
I love the last point you made. I’m always trying to bring that to my family’s attention, and they don’t ever want to fully agree with me. I don’t think that one country can truly be the BEST country. It doesn’t make sense. Every country has flaws, and many countries are on par with each other. I’m from the US and I’m going to be going to uni in the UK, and some people are like “wHy wOuLd yOu WaNt tO leAvE AmEriCa???” As if the UK is really that different, and I’m crazy for wanting to live there. Anyways lol I love your videos!
Apparently (according to my EMT friend) the reason our toilet stall doors are so high is in case someone is in the stall and has a medical emergency: most people can be pulled out below the door. Toilet stalls in other countries like here in Japan have a special kind of hinge that can allow for the entire door to be removed pretty quickly, so it's fine for the door to go all the way down.
Plus when they have to knock down the stall doors it’s cheaper to replace them because it’s made out of a cheaper material. If need be because of the gap they don’t have to break down the stall door, they can also crawl under or climb over….. everything comes down to MONEY
Paramedic in Canada here (we have the same giant stall door gaps), and I never heard anything about medical reasons. I did hear the shitty excuse that it’s easier to clean the bathrooms with the bigger gaps because basically the gaps are big enough for them to get in and clean… but how often is every single place scrubbing the space between the door and the wall?! My guess is it’s probably because it’s cheaper to make smaller doors or something.
In the UK the handy red green occupied indicator on the outside also doubles as an emergency way to unlock it from the outside (you need a tool, often just a large flat screwdriver but sometimes a thing with 2 prongs) For ease of cleaning we still have a gap at the bottom but it's normally like 4-6" Enough you can get the mop head underneath but no more
My public Highschool had a bomb threat (I lived in one of the safest towns, to begin with, and we were one of the schools selected to test out an active shooter drill. It was assumed that because we were in such a safe area none of the students would have legitimate PTSD triggered. A few teachers said the exact words "It's a training exercise for the police"). We were still told to go to class. I didn't even know there was a bomb threat until I got to the doors to enter. For those who felt unsafe and stayed home, there was no mandatory classwork to complete. It was up to the teachers if they felt like giving any supplemental work at all. Additionally at least once a school year there was a big enough threat that there were 3-6 police cars there monitoring the situation. I believe you made this comment as a slight joke-but as were allowed on campus again I was given pepper spray and a few other things I NEED to keep on hand to be safe. Nothing like a gun or knife but things that can do great damage very easily. If those aren't allowed then I keep a smaller travel size hairspray in reach and slightly out of the way is a cigarette lighter for more dangerous situations. So far neither of those have been banned in general public places I go. I also tell where I'm going and as I'm careful I tell about when I'm going to be back.
Some people can’t vote due to criminal history and some chose not to. It comes from a myth that will make you selected for jury duty. And some people really don’t want to do jury duty.
Where do you live? Are you automatically registered there? In the UK we have to register too. Presumably to save having to keep a nationwide database of all adults and their current addresses. Currently the local authority/Council/government (can't remember who) keep lists of voters who have registered themselves, but they don't have to keep track of where they move to, if they leave the area etc, because they rely on the yearly updates from households.
@@Chelle23464 I used to work at the elections office and still volunteer there. The office gets a list of convicted felons that are purged from the system BEFORE elections even start. It really is because of voter suppression and money.
@@Chelle23464 why are the unable to vote due to criminal history? If you're in jail for the entire term, I can see that, still don't agree. Once you're out everything that happens applies to you and you should be able to vote on that.
@@orangew3988 I live in the Netherlands. Every legal Dutch citizen needs to have a registered post address, If you don't have one you can get a fine. When there's an election you get send a voting card to that address, together with that card and your ID you can make the vote. Even if you're in prison, depending on your conviction you you still have the rights to vote but first register someone outside to do this for you. And ofcourse you can still choose not to vote.
Because the US defends the world order. You don't. You sponge off of the world created by the US. Pay your share of defending your country; pay your share of pharmaceutical drug development; come up with innovations. You do none of these.
@@christianlibertarian5488 Doesn't mean that world order has anything to do with the idea of the free world. Actually the opposite is true. Much of the instability we see now, are direct consequences of US foreign policy of the cold war and up to today. You've overthrown too many democratically elected governments and replaced them with violent dictatorships to be a part of the free world. Guantanamo Bay alone precludes you from having any pretentions of even being a part of the free world.
Why is it so hard for US companies to advertise their price state by state with differing prices, when that exact thing happens in Europe. Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany. Some have the same VAT, some differ, they all share free open borders and have people moving freely between them. It seems that it's entirely possible for companies to work out the taxes and adverise just fine accross state boundaries in the EU. Yet they have people from the US convinced it'd be impossible.
Well they've also got different languages and localisation to worry about so they might as well. The US's marketing areas are way more broad and besides taxes... very similar
I can't help but wonder if it's because, were they to list the taxed prices, people would start to question just why the hell the same damn items have to be taxed at different rates anyway (and then wherever possible just flood the cheaper state)
@@TottWriter that already happens... there are US states with no sales tax at all and it becomes a problem for local businesses near state boundaries to keep customers when they can just drive past them and shop in the next state cheaper.
@@Epicentera I mean yeah everyone I know always goes to Delaware for big shops cause it's tax free. They lowered the tax in South Jersey to discourage it but they lowered it from about 6% to about 3%... with the good NJ malls being in the 6% area we just cross the bridge for the good ol 0%
Hey y'all! Hope you enjoy this video! I'm really big into the technical side of making videos so I'd really love if you could answer the poll in this video (or tell me here) whether you like the video with this warmer tone or rather how it usually is (in like every other video on my channel). :D Thanks!
Nice shirt
Evan Edinger I love the warmer tone!
The warmer tone is satisfying
I like the videos as they are and this one too, but I lack the technical expertise to be too emphatic about it! In the end, it is the content that matters. Thank you for the video. I have never been so early!
I absolutely love the warmer lighting in the video
21 in the US: woo i can finally get beer
21 in Europe: i should stop drinking, i am getting to old for that.
This upsets me how much I can relate to it
literally me🤣
18 in Portugal: yeah, I've drunk enough
Question for Americans: When do you start drinking illegally? 16? 18?
@@makombi32 15 is what I've seen a lot in my area. 13 at the very very young end
"christian background"
Europe has a christian backgroud that is centuries older than that of the US. It's more a matter of fundamentalist background.
Australians have a saying that thank God they got all the criminals and the puritans went to America
@@annejeppesen160 while good for Australia, with a bit of luck, the outback and the wildlife might have killed off the religious puritans by now if it had been the other way around...
Exactly, its based on people who left Europe because they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs.
@@andrewwade5655 and being persecuted because they wanted changes to make their fundamentalist religious views law, denounced natural human behaviour as sinful and were killjoys on all the holidays including banning Christmas
We got rid of all our fundamentalists, they colonised America!
I am too European to understand that the Tri state area is a real thing and doesn't just exist in Phineas and ferb
edit: yall can stop answeri g its been three month and theres like 30 ppl who have already answered
Something Original And Funny as a Brit I thought the same thing too 😳😳
I’m American and I didn’t know
ever since seeing Phineas and Ferb I have thought all states could have a tri-state area if there was any reason to talk about a larger area. I never knew it was 3 specific states.
same
Tri-state areas depends on the area.
USA: We can't put different prices on the packaging, it would be too confusing
EU: Having goods with labels in 6 different languages and 4 different currencies on the packaging.
For some reason, products in the US (ie. Books) also have the price in Canadian Dollars. It's not like they can't put two different prices on one item.
The real reason is omitting VAT is it encourages further spending. Lobbyists own the US govt.
Hold up, we're not talking 2 or even 6, we are talking literally HUNDREDS. Did you not listen to the video? Not only does every state (50 of them, remember?) have their own taxes, but many counties, cities, or even subdivisions of cities, like the buroughs of NY, have their own taxes. It's utterly insane, and probably should get cleaned up by some sweeping federal law. It won't happen, because congress is insane, divided, and short sighted as hell, but that's the only way it will change.
Also, and this is important, for some dumb ass reason, some places in America have laws that say you CANNOT include the taxes in the price. In NY state, we as sellers cannot pay sales tax for our customers. Why? IDK. Someone lobbied for a law. It's fucking dumb, but there you go. It's literally illegal for a nice soup selling stall to just pay that .06 for you. ILLEGAL. Why? Stupid, that's why. Why ask? It's always money and politics.
including:
have this snack bar for
1€ in Germany
1.2€ in Austria and
1.4€ in Switzerland! 🎉
@@myeramimclerie7869 didn't know Switzerland uses euro
As an European I'm quite surprised about how much Americans don't give a shit about human rights.
@@r4c3rx ever compared American and European prisons?
@@r4c3rx Guantanamo rings a bell?
It’s not necessarily Americans, it’s the American government. The country and its people are two very different things with very different objectives.
@@rossii2311
You're right here. Americans as people are actually quite nice. It always boils down to the fact that their government is working for the benefits of the few wealthy individuals... just like most countries in the world, actually.
Still, there's some shit that simply wouldn't fly in my part of the world compared to America and I live in a post-commie shithole.
@@r4c3rx When somebody is going to say something stupid the word 'mainstream media' comes out. The US government tortured people in Guantanamo, It is a FACT. You do not have to agree with a fact because It is true anyway. Sorry if you do not like it. Moreover the use of the term POW show that you do not know anything about this topic.
As a German, I am regularly shocked by the healthcare system in the US. Now I don't wanna pretend like German healthcare has no room to improve....But 1000 dollars for an ambulance??? I heard somewhere that the average cost of childbirth is 10.000 dollars? Excuse me?
idk where that birth statistic is from but in my state (at least from what i learned from my health teacher and the adults i know) childbirth costs anywhere from $40,000 to over 1 million ... and that's with insurance 😳
Lol yeah giving birth is almost like taking mortgage.
Your health care is insane. You've had over 1000 cases of corona virus yet 0 deaths.
The global death rate is 3.4% so you expect 34 people to have died.
How is this even possible?
It's insane...
mysto it's mystical
I’m from Wales, and in school we had 2 polish people In our class. They felt left out when we did welsh culture so the teachers did an entire lesson on polish culture just for them
Those are really sweet teachers!
meanwhile i moved 2,000 miles to a new state and my teacher gave me an F in the class because i didn't know the geography of their small town on the first day of school
Fuck yeah! That's so lovely
Meanwhile I am Polish and live in NJ where they don’t give a flying fuck what country you are from, all they teach you about is how great America is and how much better it is than the rest of the world :))))
That’s so sweet tho
"Can't expect companies to have different information for different 'smaller' areas."
American companies operating in Europe: "shh...don't let them know we've been doing this for decades all over the world."
Pretty much. When McDonald's makes a nationwide advertisement campaign of, say, McSomething at 3.99€ it's not the same cost depending on the city. 3.99€ in Madrid are not 3.99€ in Mérida or Soria. But they suck it up if the cost/profit margins are very different depending on location. They could do the same in the USA but since its customers there are already used to taxes-not-included prizes they take advantage of it.
@@rafarequeni822 Here it goes even a bit further.
We have a reduced tax rate for specific things (like basic goods or takeout, but not restaurants) So if you buy a cheeseburger at McDonalds for 1€, you either pay 19% tax or 7% tax depending on if you order for eating there or as takeout, but the price is the same.
So if you don't like them, you can totally order to eat in the restaurant, but take eat it on the go anyway, and because the tax rate is higher, they make less money with it.
Yet they expect the customers (local and foreign) to know all of that, instead of the people (accountants) who actually get paid to determine how much the product should be sold for! 🤦
They don't even need different information. Just advertise the price before taxes... Like they already do.
I'm too european to understand why there isn't a maternity leave in the USA.
Maria Nunes my home state’s governor veto a payed maternity leave bill because ‘no deserves a free vacation’. And also lowered maternity leave to 2 weeks (everyone asks why I don’t want to move back)
@@michaelfrazier7234 Go figure why...
@@michaelfrazier7234 They seriously referred to it as a free vacation? Taking care of a baby isn't exactly a breeze. Parents (both women and men, tho for physical reasons mothers who've given birth even more) deserve to and should spend time with their newborn. It's good for creating a connection, for your own mental health, for the baby. No one should be punished for having children, instead society should encourage healthy family bonds. Women shouldn't have to fear losing their jobs if they get pregnant. They shouldn't have to choose between going to work days after giving birth or risking their financial situation by taking unpaid leave or using their sick days. This practice in the US is abhorrent.
Wait WHAT!? Well then a again, you also pay 10k to have a baby, so I don't know why I'm surprised...
im From Estonia and the maternity leave here is 18 months full pay + job position guarantee + monthly child money payments + starter pack with essential products and clothes
your 20 year old UK friend hasn't been drinking for 2 years they've been drinking for 7
That is so true
he said been 'legally drinking' not just drinking. we al know practically everyone starts drinking at 13 over here ;)
@@jessiea893 it isn't illegal to drink below the age of 18. (The minimum drinking age in the UK, is actually 5 years old at home/on private premises).
It is legal for an adult to buy a child 16 years or older beer, wine, or cider to be consumed in a licensed premises, providing it is with a meal.
a l m you think imma throw them under the bus like that? Get’m coppers! 👮🏼♀️ 👮🏼♂️
@@damionlee7658 yeah... I know. Lets be real pedantic people like you need to stop replying with the technicalities surrounding when you're legally allowed to start drinking. Anyone from the UK knows these laws as we've all probably used them so it is not needed. :)
So basically, his video is a reminder for every non US-citizen, why we would
Never.
Ever.
wanna move to the US
...but the landscapes are beautiful...
The US can be wonderful! It's definitely not the best country in the world. It has its flaws, but every country does. Americans tend to be kind, friendly people. Our cities are gorgeous, and we have a very diverse nature selection to choose from such as: tropical, snowy, hilly, dry, almost everything you could think of. There's a lot of bad, but please don't generalize the whole country on some things you've heard. The UK health system is bad if you look into it, just like how the US health system is bad as well. I know that the United States isn't perfect, but it makes me sad to see people say that they hate or would never go to my country, when they've only every heard about it.
@@midnightrally357 I truly believe that it can be a beautiful country with wonderful people but those aren't things that would convince me to move there for the rest of my life. I'd like to visit sometime but the health care and other governmental stuff is just too bad for me to say "yeah this looks like a nice place to live."
@@frauleinzuckerguss1906 I'm inclined to agree with you, but if you look into it, the US is no more corrupt than tons of other popular countries such as the England and Austrailia, we just have different issues.
Midnight Rally That’s some good points, and yes there are wonderful parts to America, but I’m gonna have to disagree with you on the healthcare argument.
Media likes to sensationalise any shortfall with the NHS, and it happens. It definitely needs better funding, but it’s full of motivated people with modern equipment, and those who need care are taken care of regardless of financial need, something the US severely lacks.
This patriotic brain washing over there is genuinely scary. And it explains so much about Americans
It's how cults work.
Europe is the home of brainwashing and it's still happening all over the continent. Ever been to Eastern Europe? it's a complete shit hole compared to the rest of Europe due to brainwashing.
The nazis would be impressed by how many flags they show
Nice of you to assume we are all brainwashed by patriotism. Some of us actually aren't.
no fuck this is literally what i see during my education in china lol(btw even over here you don't have to write essays about the fucking flag sure you're supposed to respect it and the army but it doesn't get in the way so much)
When I get upset about my country I always listen/read about the USA law and politics and immidietly feel better
Why do states not want to be independent countries in their own right? They're big enough, rich enough. Europe has many countries significantly smaller than most States in USA, surely it is better to be independent, choose your own destiny rather than be a state which is ignored, badly treated by the US Government. E.g. Scotland does not like the London' Westminster Government's treatment so many Scots want independence.
As an American I do the same. When I'm upset with America I look into British politics and feel better
@@j.a.mccready9273 the states are countries in all but name, that's why they are called states. Making the union legally a country was done in early days of counties as a concept and the US is the first of such a union, as such it made sense at the time to have the union powers be the federal government and each state would have their own and operate independently from each other state as a country. Prior to the civil war states were thought of as countries more so than today and would at times fight each other, but the unionized effort of fighting due to the civil war and collective struggle the whole union faced people started to identify the union as their country rather than with their state. It is a confusing mess due to the civil war separating from the union and treating a state as a legal country as been seen negatively, I suppose the war is still too fresh and the collective people have collective issues they want to address. Leaving the union is typically blown off as a right wing thing based on that history so typically only right wingers suggest anything like that, and certain states now rely on the union economically too, leaving the union would be taking away a shared economic responsibility and aid and separating support towards collective issues. The union identity has also allowed the US to even exist as a world power at all, especially post WW1. There are issues with all this, but I'm not sure they will be addressed during my life time
@@kaiceecrane3884 a well considered response, thank you
@John Doe That sounds more like Italy. The discussion with Poland has to do with the rules of the democratic system.
"Christian background" to justify censorship? I live in ITALY and we actively ADD curse words to Marvel movies 😂
The most catholic country I know of, with the literal center of the religion in their capital, and they still curse, Americans really have no excuse 😂
@@Brunjolf "christian background" is the excuse that gets used. It's really just about control, and moral outrage.
Mamma mia che cazzata vero? "background cristiano" ABBIAMO IL PAPA GENTE.
ABBIAMO
IL
PAPA.
(translation: that bullshit isn't it? "Christian background" WE HAVE THE POPE PEOPLE. WE HAVE THE POPE)
Yea americas not much catholic as it is protestant and a lot of those sects are more crabby about arbitrary things like that
Giulia Pecoraro you surround the pope
As a European living in the US (for the last 4 years), I actively avoid going to restaurants or ordering delivery just because it makes me extremely uncomfortable that the employees have to "beg" their salary off me in form of tips. I'm happy to pay it as part of the price, but having someone completely depend on me to decide whether or not they should be paid for their work is something that just puts me off the experience.
Then always tip the same percentage - hey that's your new price. Problem solved.
irishgator that’s not the point
There are some restaurants where you go pick up your food, like Fuddruckers, that don't require tips and it's a lot less awkward.
That is inaccurate. 100% inaccurate. In the United States, per federal law, IF your tips do not equate to you earning the minimum hourly wage your employer MUST make up the difference and pay you the difference. Unless you allow yourself to be taken advantage of and are not aware of your rights as an employee then you have no right at all to complain about not getting a tip cuz ‘$2/hr’. The amount of misinformation around this topic is insane. Most tipped employees will make way more than minimum wage assuming they do their job well. The tip wage only becomes an issue when you need a proof of income for say a car loan.
LovesEmbracce That doesn’t make any sense. If employers have to pay the difference anyway then why can’t they just pay a decent salary in the first place.
20yo: "Can I have a beer please?"
US: "Best I can do is.... GUN"
Well, I was gonna take in some alcohol and let it go to my head... I guess Im gonna take in some bullets and let them go to my head R.I.P.
You know what, that's not bad I'll take the gun.
Travels to the White House...
meanwhile in Germany:
16 yo: "dang, I can't buy vodka, have to manage with beer"
18 yo buddy: "let's just go to Aldi together."
Oh yes, the two countries: America and Europe.
Lets hope that that will be right soon
Tbf they are basically the same size, even so America is not as diverse in terms of language
United States of Europe, would be cool.
Besides that the EU countries are negotiating as a unity through the European Union.
@@klamin_original I hope it will happen in our lifetime, it will be a beautiful sight to behold
@@Brunjolf I'm actually not talking about how Europe has a lot of countries, and more like there is other places besides US and Europe lol
TLDR:
‘So why does the US do this stupid unreasonable thing?’
‘Money.’
Money GOD and Brainwashing
Noice
We, in other countries, apparently dont have money?
@@Slavkod I think the word should've been Corruption instead
@@Slavkod Sure do, but unlike the US money isn't the key motivation for everything. "Greed" would probably have been a better fit.
The US tippingsystem should be illegal. Waiters should be payed normal wages.
The law is (and it's possible he didn't know this when working a waiting job) that if you don't make enough with your hourly wage + tips to equal out to minimum wage, your employer is obligated to pay you the difference. So every wait staff employee is guaranteed minimum wage.
For some jobs, I'll say I actually preferred being on tips. I worked for a few years as a bartender, and I made more on the tips than I would have made if tipping were not a part of the culture here.
@@anthonydelfino6171 the point is that wages shouldn´t be payed by costumers. This way a boss is trying to have you get as many tips as possible, so he pays less....And I can assure you that even in countries where you don´t have to tip, it can still be custom to do so, especially in restaurants, café´s, hotels and bars, but at least people do it because they like what you did without hovering over them and they can give what they think what it was worth. Just because you don´t have to, doesn´t mean people don´t appreciate you and don´t tip! This means you have minimum wages (and often more anyway, only teenagers are on minimum wages) plus tips and you can actually enjoy them because you don´t depend on them. No one in Europe needs to work more than one job, like some in the USA.
Yep, and customers feel entitled. So if the kitchen makes a mistake, the waiter doesn't get paid. It's a sad reality for the hospitality careers :(
Tipping as a cultural thing goes beyond just expecting the customer to pay for the wait staff's salary. I don't disagree about the fact that the wait staff should just be appropriately paid in the first place...
But as I understand it any restaurant who tries to change that ends up with the issue where the business has to charge more for entrees (since they charge less for the food since the overhead for wages is lower) which will lead customers to ask why they should pay you more for the same food? And it would take a shift in the mentality to realize that as part of this change, they are no longer expected to leave a tip.
The problem is, basically, deeply ingrained, and so it will take more than even just laws to change this, it will take an entire change in the culture of eating out, and as I talked about, might actually meet resistance by some jobs that currently survive off tips if they realize they make less now than they did before as people stop tipping.
@@anthonydelfino6171 so just because it is difficult, one shouldn´t try to change it? Such mentality is exactly what keeps a country from developing for the better. Other countries have done it, it is possible, even if you start with just the more progressive states. Customers don´t have to pay more for the same food and bosses don´t and there is loads of profit on food anyway. Especially if you start to give normal size portions instead of so much you can feed a family of 5 from one plate and give a "doggiebag". If a boss can´t pay wages, he should not have personel and simply do everything him/herself. Also, people won´t stop tipping just because they don´t have to. Other countries also prove that.
"You can't expect companies to have all those different things for all these marketing areas." - Yeah but here in Europe we have smaller countries on that scale and here it works.
In the US taxes can vary down to the street.
If I have two McDonald's for example and I place them directly across the street from each other (for some reason) depending on where exactly I am, a cheeseburger could be 1.03 on one side of the street and a 1.05 on the other.
Now, you might think this doesn't matter, but it really does, because it affects everything at the logistics level. As well, because tax can vary so wildly in such a small area, it makes it logistically impossible to advertise an after tax price and guarantee everyone to be charged the same price they heard or saw.
Before tax is much easier and it really is not difficult when you live with the system
But you can at least write the prices on the pricetags in supermarkets
Or does the tax differ depending on the register?
@@Tormonir No, it's the same in the entire store. But logistics of actually doing it would increase costs so there's why they won't do it.
You can argue all you like, if you visit the US or Canada, tax is not on the tag price and we are not wrong for doing it this way. We don't have a unified tax amount like the EU does
@@Tormonir sometimes it depends on the item, at least where I’m from. Different items are taxed at different rates. Also, if you’re supplying something to a different region, you would need to tax the good(s) using the destination rate.
@@MiriaJiyuu i still don't get it, it can be different in different streets in my country too, yet the company still calculates it. When I worked at a grocery store, if the prices are changed, they are sent to us, we come earlier in the morning, print them and change them. There's really no good reasons why customers should calculate the tax on every product they put in the basket.
0:40 I mean, Australia already goes to Eurovision, they are basically family now.
Australia is like, the only clever child we had
As an Australian, New Zealand is far better 😜
Yeah Australia is basically europe
Eurovision is a company and not 'europe'
Jonatan S yes we know
I am Canadian and moved to Texas when I was almost 15.
Dear.fing.god.
I tried sitting for the pledge (legal) and the teacher and principal tried telling me I was breaking the law and threatening me with suspensions and such. They called my mum and made her cry saying I could be arrested then put her on the phone with me. They also rood me I couldnt have an atheist or secular club because they "don't allow hate groups" but would participate in creepy christian stuff trying to guilt students into attending or luring them with food. I was literally bullied by teachers and administrators, not other students, while there and we had school police who would treat us like crap. I saw kids being dragged away for having a joint with them trying to get them to say they were selling to friends (possession charge vs distribution is a HUGE DEAL). We weren't treated like people we were herded like cattle and treated like a constant inconvenience and unfortunate necessity for them to get paid.
This was supposed to be a blue ribbon school. It's now being sued for human rights violations because of the flag stuff with another girl who's mom wasnt a scared depressed immigrant.
It's insane to me the crap they think is normal there. They are training their people to tolerate authoritarian control and witnessing oppression and abuse of others around them. Also fun fact, racists are allowed to be teachers and you dont need special education to become one.
That's Texas for ya.
I live in Ga and no one stands for the pledge anymore. Not the whole state but in Gwinnett county.
Wait, you don't need a specific education to become a teacher 😲
@@annejeppesen160 each state has different requirements. Some are very lax. Usually u just need any degree or pass the knowledge test for a subject.
@@MintyFarts I thought they would have moved on from Little House on The Prairie, apparently not...
I'm too european to understand how some americans call Bernie Sanders a communist. I mean, from my European point of view he is just moderate left, and most of the things he defends feel like common sense.
Bernie Sanders wanted to take over an additional 25% of the US economy and rule over it from Washington. That is as communist as it gets.
And nothing he defends are common sense. What he wants is to take from the productive, and give it to his political supporters. That is called theft.
@@christianlibertarian5488 Really living up to your name, huh?
He has praised communist before. Be even had his honeymoon in the Soviet Union.
@@gerardos6025 what does it matter where he decides to travel?
Because some Americans use communist as an insult and to discredit other people, even though, or maybe even because they have absolutely no clue what communism is.
They will side with companies even against their own interests.
It's like they've collectively developed Stockholm syndrome. They love, defend and bend over for companies that exploit and abuse them.
You can't expect companies to make complex calculations to add different tax to their prices according to location? Eh, why can't you expect that? And how is it that it's totally reasonable to expect every single consumer to do math every time they buy anything?
I live in Texas and the sales tax rate can be different from one city to the next. There’s a state sales tax of 8%, but then cities can add up .25% sales tax on top of the 8%. While, it would be easy for companies to at least add the 8% to items sold in Texas, there would still be the city level sales tax to be calculated. I personally just always assume that the sales tax is 8.25% wherever I am when I bother to calculate the tax.
Also, why would companies want to pay to have those calculations done? That would take money away from their CEOs and shareholders. (This was sarcasm for those of you who didn’t already see it.)
@@sherrymccleese7266 this it's just insane really. Almost everywhere in the world it works the other way around. Taxes are being add before and a product ( for example Pantene shampoo) cost the same all over the country in a chain store. It'd got to be so hard for people with small income.
Like the man says in the video, Money 😆 Companies aren't going to pay the cost to print all of the different signage if they don't have to. And they don't have to because all of their customers are used to adding it after.
@@Charsept They don't have to. They can just make the calculation beforehand and give the single price like everywhere else
@@sherrymccleese7266 And? In Poland, in one Żabka (such a chain of small shops), company X's milk costs 70 cents, in another 300 meters further it costs 50 cents, and in the next it will be for 35 cents, because it is a promotion.
School Spirit and the obsession with school athletes. The cheerleaders, the fursonas, the custom uniforms, the scholarships. It all baffles me.
I think it makes school more fun. I went to a charter school we didn't have any sports or school pride n stuff n I was always jealous of the public school people looked like they were having so much more fun lol
School spirit causes amazing things to happen at school. I wish I could show you how it feels.
Right? Doesn’t look like a bad idea but they put SO MUCH INTO IT it’s obnoxious
At times it seems like they are having fun more often than actually learning anything. And what's more baffling to me is every school seems so much different from the other, it's crazy. Different classes for different students in the same year and so many after school activities.
They are also very competitive and will defend their school's "honor" no matter what, here in Europe people are much, much more chill. Oh and the whole prom king and queen thing is too competitive.
(Maybe I watch too many American movies idk)
Movies very much over-dramatize it. This is (public) High School Specific:
Cheerleaders aren't really that big of a deal; at my school it's just another dance elective. Sports are a big deal (not a huge one) for a couple of reasons, but the most important reason is: games are fundraisers (students going to games= money for the school district). There definitely is a "fun" aspect to school mascots and stuff. And as for custom uniforms (I'm really only thinking of sports), it's a lot more fun to see your team out there with distinct colors and a menacing animal on their chest than it is to see your team out there in the individual shirts they got at Big5SportingGoods. Often for sports, the school has uniforms from previous years for the players to wear (kinda gross, but whatever, they're clean). If you do get an individual uniform, you pay for it yourself and get to keep it once the season is over.
Mascots are not necessarily a fursona, though they often are. Mascots also express regional pride. I live in an agricultural area, so our mascot reflects that (the costume is terrifying btw).
Sports and cheerleading aren't the only things going on at a school. Often theater productions, concerts and dance shows are publicized just as much as games, there are just only 4 (maybe) theater productions a year where there are dozens of sports games.
(Also, keep in mind that the people making highschool movies haven't actually been in highschool for a decade and least. I have no idea what American highschools were like in the 80's just like they really have no idea what highschools are like now.)
Why is America so against being a good country yet so adamant that they’re the best.
Maybe if they already think it's the best they don't think it needs improvements.
Brainwashing
Because the idea here of what makes a good country is battered into people’s heads by the conservative corporate news media.
Edit: This is largely runoff from the Red Scare/Cold War
Brainwashing and ignorance.
boy i do not think we are the best please come pick me up i don't want to live here anymore
I'm too European to understand Americans' fascination with turning everything into a law suit.
$$$$$$$$$$$ lol
Or a twitter cancelling.
@@ceebee3083 yeah lol it's like they worship celebrities so much that they expect them to be literal gods and never mess up
It was an attempt at justice for the people, which backfires all the time.
Ikr. There are things you can take to court there which would never happen in the UK. Like they'd just be like... Deal with that yourself.
Americans do not understand that tipping is for outstanding service, not for simply doing the job
at least they tip, here in Italy many employees are underpaid illegally and they don't get tips because everyone expects that you get minimum wage...
ooh and slavery is also permitted here (not legal, but permitted)
I'm pretty sure waiters get most of their money from Tips from people in the first place. Not tipping a waiter is like saying they don't deserve to get paid at all.
@@timelordwarrior4394 but the idea of the tip is like a reward from the customer for exceptional service. Not just for doing their job. So yeah, that's why it is profitable to be a good waiter.
@@PropertyOfK you should tell the restaurants and companies that 😂.
Sadly waiters barely get paid as much as the regular workers. Their pay is made up of most of the tips they get.
@@PropertyOfK hence why you should tip anyways to pay them for bringing you service anyways.
$2/hour? You could probably beg on the street for more money than that.
Actually yes, they could. I found a video before and American people was really on it that you have to pay them tip because they can't make enough t pay the bills. I was raised in Spain, and never something made so less sense than someone say to me if you go to xx place pay tips because they have shitty payment. If you say this here they will ask why you didn't take this to court and why should I pay for your service when literally this comes included in the bill already. It's like they don't know how price works, the bar or wathever place already includes the services and bill's they have to pay in the price + taxes. When I give a tip it means a bonus not for your boss but you and your great work, this makes people serve better. That's why is pretty common see people working as waitress for years, not because it's their first job or are students, but because they studied or like that job.
My tip for them would be to get their rights, because living of pitty from your client won't get you anywhere, because people tip when they have money, and when don't you will have a sh@ pay.
Yeah i am 14 and i get payed €5 an hour, 2 dollars is insanely low..
I literally used to get £5 to £12 each day for selling my snacks and sweets in school a year ago and I was 10, so I feel really bad for Americans
I made 200 dollars in 2 hours literally begging on the street once. 2$ is a sick joke
*(h3/$3@* ikr. It's kinda disgusting really
I'm too european to understand why it is easier to buy guns than to buy kinder eggs
tbh it's too difficult to ban guns rn
They're all too stupid to understand basic precaution.
Because guns are fun to shoot. We do have kinder eggs but they’re different from the rest of the world because the risk of getting sued if someone’s child chokes on the toy is too high. Why people can’t just watch their children better I have no idea.
Kindereggs are not banned in the US. They're always in the aisles of Walmart near the cash registers. They put them right where weary children can see them and beg their parents to buy them while they wait for a register to open up :)
Priscilla Forsythe Kinder eggs are not the same as Kinder Joy eggs. We don’t have the regular ones in the US.
not gonna lie, when i first heard americans pledge allegiance to the flag at school i thought it was a joke. it's so reminiscent of nazi germany
Add the original hail it had before.
Ugh. It's annoying. Like bro, cool there's soldiers going to war but y'all know we ain't thanking no one when you're forcing us to pledge to a flag when we get to school.
As an American, it’s wild. The words are weird too. “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”. When I learned that in preschool I 100% did not know what all those words meant. We just say it without thinking about it. You’re not required but you’ll get a lot of weird looks if you don’t do it
In Argentina we do the same and we are really peaceful
honestly as an American I’ve been saying it everyday at school since I first started school. Never really thought about it until now but I guess it is kinda weird.
My mum has always taught me that you learn with a manual. That way you can drive practically any car. If you only ever learn automatic you’ll never be able to drive a manual
I'll teach my daughter manual so she can be on the phone at the same time and can't let her friends drive it because nobody drives manual here 😉
Same thing my fam said to me
In my country you pay ekstra to get automatic gearshift in your car. Therefore manual is the most common still.
If you only learn automatic in the US, you'll be able to drive 98.6% of cars on the road. No need to learn a skill that less than 3% of cars require.
I learned on an automatic and didn't have that much trouble switching later.
1:20 "you can't really expect all these companies to..." but why not. It's actually quite typically American to always prioritise companies over the individual person.
And considering only 2 big telecom companies monopolies the market i don't know why they always brag "capitalism rule"
Well money rules politics and corporations have more money that any individual. And the individuals that are extremely rich, *also* own corporations. I’m pretty sure it’s legal for a company to sue someone here? I don’t know; I remember reading something about that.
@@sarahmorris4575 yeah as far as I know company’s are classified as a person when they’re suing people
Taxes often change, within a county, city and town. The state doesn’t have the same tax in every town and city. In my city the tax is 7,5 next year will be up to 7,9. A town nearby ( but different state) has a 5,9 tax on clothing,but no tax on food. It varies so much, that’s why it is added afterwards.
@@mylist0song The solution would be to adjust the base price so that the sum the costumer pay remains the same. Regardless of where you live.
"Not adding the taxes on top of it makes a lot of sense if you think about it"
*goes on about describing the non unified tax system which basically gives companies a good reason to advertise false prices*
PS: adding taxes on top right away is consumer protection, in germany. You never start such an argument from the perspective from a company. Because a company could simply even out the prices between states, if they wanted.
That was my thought, why not just even them out, depending on tax, it still doesn't make any sense.
that's because in each country in europe there's a unified law throughout the country. that's not the case in america. each state has a completely different government, with completely different laws. there is no national tax. there are only different state taxes.
@@ih9799 It's even worse than that. Most cities have a restaurant tax on top of the state sales tax. And they can vary wildly. Buying a sandwich in my city costs an extra 12% in taxes, but the next city over it's 11% and another is 9%, and out in the county it's just the regular state tax of 6%. But groceries have a state sales tax of 2%, and cities aren't allowed to add on to grocery taxes.
@@tvdan1043 yeah there are county/city differences too, i just didn't wanna get into that lol
@@tvdan1043 But why???? Why make things so complicated? Isn't having a different tax in each state enough? What's the benefit here?
I'm too european to understand, why being able to own a gun is treated like a human right and necessity in America
Because we have a right do defend ourselves
jszgarrison yet you still have the death penalty
Erin Kotarski from what? Other people with guns?
jszgarrison idk the Norwegian version has one of -5% soo
(Joke)
jszgarrison yes, and that’s fine, but what if a mentally unstable person got ahold of one? Cuz it sounds relatively easy
I remember when I turned 15 I felt guilty that I hadn't gotten a job yet, I thought I was being lazy... for being a child..
I hated it whenever some people would pester me about getting a job while still in high school at the time, like I would rather enjoy as much free time as I could before graduating and getting a job.
The actual way to reduce traffic accidents is to make people do actual driving lessons with a licenced teacher and have actually hard tests afterwards.
That's how Germany does it and it has worked good for us so far. Heck we don't have a maximum speed on parts of our Autobahn and er still have less traffic accidents per capita than the US.
Also the TÜV is probably saving our asses too and keeping the really shitty and old broken cars off the roads.
Cool, but it honestly wouldn't work here. Our infrastructure is garbage. Where I live, the nearest bus is 30 miles away, the nearest cab is only 25 miles away, and the roads are not equipped for bikes. If you required more training and didn't government fund it (which we wouldn't) all you would accomplish is keeping the poor off the roads.
@@xionmemoria wait the nearest cab is 25 miles away? But the cab is a car, it can drive to you.
Greg Hawkins Lots of the time in the US nowadays cabs are only in cities. Ubers can come to you, but cabs can’t come to you.
@@Victoria-kp5mk ahhh that's a bit rubbish
@@Victoria-kp5mk Weird. In the UK, there are taxis (as in black cabs, but not exclusively) and private hire cars. You can book either, but only taxis have a license to pick up a fare, and taxis are generally limited in where their licenses allow them to do that.
the thing that irritates me the most about the U.S. is this "the US is the best country in the world" attitude. There's nothing wrong with appreciating the country you live in, but this amount of patriotism makes people blind to the things that are bad/could be better. There's no room for improvement when there's no room for critique.
another thing that's maybe connected to the whole patriotism thing is the problem with the confederate flag. I can't for the life of me understand why taking down those statues/flags is such a problem for some people. Being from Austria I have some experience with being from a country with a very problematic history and we didn't take responsibility for what we did for a long time, but now it's not even up for debate that what our ancestors did during WWII was horrific and must never happen again. It sometimes seems to me that some Americans see it as an attack on themselves when people want confederate flags/statues removed, but it's not. My great-grandfather was a Nazi. That doesn't make me a bad person. If some of your ancestors were slave owners it doesn't take you a bad person either. But as a descendants it is our responsibility to do better and to be aware of our history and what it did to other people.
(oh and if any Americans are reading this: please don't think that I think that every American thinks like that. I know that's not the case. Also: do you have an explanation for why this is such a problem?)
I'm British and with you 100%.
Possibly it is related to the illusion of control that is ingrained American culture (for example, the concept of changing your socioeconomic class based on your level of effort). It is very hard for many Americans to accept that one cannot control the past. To overcome cognitive dissonance, is much easier to superimpose a narrative of pride on the past.
I mean we don’t just get upset about the confederate flag, nazis weren’t even apart of our ancestry but if someone was to hang the nazi flag we’d have a problem with it. We do acknowledge the past, I’ve learned about confederates every year for the past 6 years. The problem people have with the statues and flag is what it represents. It represents the confederacy and what it stands for, so why would we put up a flag of people that a. Didn’t support our country, and b. Had very morally wrong beliefs. (Mind you I am not putting my own opinion into this these are just opinions I have heard from other people)
@@Fluffyan "To overcome cognitive dissonance, it is much easier to superimpose a narrative of pride on the past." - so simple yet so hard to understand for people doing it.
@@130659N i think you misunderstood the original post. Lisa isn't asking why you have a problem with confederate flags. But why some US-Americans are angry when confederate flags or statues are removed! She is in favour of the removal! Just as we here in Europe would not keep Nazi-statues standing (at least I hope we have removed most of them...)
"Different states have different tax systems." Well unless your restaurant happens to be located directly on the border between two states, I fail to see how that's relevant.
HowlingSnail FINALLY
HowlingSnail different states counties and cities all have different tax codes
@@conmal2891 then they need to fix that.
I fail to see why it's so important for the US to keep things as complicated as possible.
It’s an added cost for restaurants to have different menus, ads, etc. for every county/state they have a location in. Instead you just know the tax amount for your area and add it on to the advertised price
@@spschol I mean they have to print those menus anyway. Doesn't seem like it's actually any extra bother, especially in the modern age when computers can do it all. To me it just seems like a marketing ploy to make prices look lower
The sick days thing is really weird. Herre (sweden) you stay home when you're sick and you get payed 80% of your normal salary. And that's fine with me
The same in Poland.
yeah, in Poland I've worked for a nice company that even paid the extra 20% (AFAIK normally the 80% is covered by the government/taxes, not the employer) so you got full pay on sick leave (unless you were out for like over a month or something, there's different rules for long term sick-leave)
@@itsbazyli first month is coverd by for your company, after that you're getting paid by ZUS.
Yeah, in Denmark if we're sick, we stay home. At full pay. And u cant get fired for being sick too much, unless u have 120 sick days in 1 year. In fact, most place employers actively encourage ppl to stay home, when theyre sick, coz they dont want the co-workers to get infected!
What I‘m too European to understand is: Some politicians are actually against an affordable medical insurance - and lots of people actually vote for them.
bUt wE nEed OuR fReEdOM
OH SORRY FOR NOT KNOWING THAT FREEDOM KILLS THE POOR
americans hate paying taxes, especially if they don't personally benefit from it.
Private insurance=$$$$
Massive well-funded propaganda campaigns is basically your answer.
Americans pay more for healthcare than anybody, yet do you have any idea how many Americans will turn around and argue that they can't afford public healthcare?
@Saffron Sinclair Except it doesn't. You can simply choose not to tax people below a certain income threshold, like many other countries do, or like the USA does for other taxes.
Also, you're ignoring that you still have to pay for healthcare whether you like it or not, and you already pay more than all those countries with public healthcare.
You're acting like no other country has poor people. I have no idea why Americans suffer from this inability to realize that they're not special.
"when i'm sick i need to get a check up at the doctor"
Me: so whats the problem, just go?
Oh wait. I'm too european to get that immediately
not true. check ups anytime. more rare procedures a few month later.
Europen here, my recent experience (like from 2019, 2020):
- problem with my ear, appointment with a specialist - in 2 days
- feeling sick - the same day in the afternoon
- couldn't talk, laryngitidis - the next day...
It of course depends on what specialist you want to see (alergology, digestive system have longer waiting times), but many have very short waiting times. Czech Republic
Yeah, medical care here in America is very expensive! 🙄😑😒 I have not been to a doctor in over a year because I cannot afford it.
Hungarian here, we have crappy healthcare here compared to other countries.
I had the same treatment as the Czech guy.
I even got my Corona-shot the day after registering. I could even book for the same day but it was kind of late.
@@gaaraati Yeah, your hospitals or literally most terrifying places on Earth. Like... My friend is from US but lived in Budapest for vast majority of his life and stories he told me about Hungarian hospitals are just shocking. And it's not like I'm German or Finnish to be picky... I live in Poland so I know a thing or two about crappy healthcare xD
I’m too European to understand why ‘United’ states of America all have different laws and taxes. Be united!😂
it's because it's the "United States" of America. 50 different states, with completely different laws and practices, that are loosely tied together by a weak federal law, and only come together when facing foreign countries. otherwise the states usually compete with each other and have their own rivalries
@@garrettevans9193 It's because of the way the colonies were formed; it's usually taught in 8th grade history. Were you studying abroad then?
They are united to suck money from wealthy states like New York, California, Massachusetts, Texas, Illinois and Florida.
Look at it kind of like how the EU is joined. Each state has its own government, economy, and laws (just like every country does there) but we are mostly united under a federal government (hence the name: **United** states). States are united but act independently. Its more of a checks and balances thing. The state government can make a law but the federal government can make an amendment that overrides it. There are 2 main reasons for this:
1)It would be difficult for one government to control all of the different regions and cultures that span across the country. We are too big. And even as one nation we are culturally different. As a Texan, Californians seem different just as my thinking and way of life may seem different to a New Yorker.
2) We started out as 13 separate colonies with different economies, cultures and laws. and in the beginning the articles of confederation put power in each individual states hands. It didn't work. They needed a central currency and leadership. Because of the environment and slave labor southern states specialized in agriculture. Northern states had their own specializations so they needed to trade and get along. Whats better to get along then establishing a central government? The new constitution (the one we have now) also prevented fighting between colonies/states.
Of course this whole "checks and balances" thing comes with problems. Our government is corrupted and sometimes one side doesn't know what the other is doing. But there is little we can do to change that as a citizen 🤷🏾♀️.Recently, This is how COVID-19 ended up spiraling out of control here. Some states closed others opened. There are more reasons why the states can act separately but I think this comment is long enough. But I hope this very long comment answers your question.🤗
Because the less my state (Georgia) is like California, the better.
I love how Americans call the US “the greatest country on earth” even though around 50% of Americans have never actually left the US and most of the ones who have left end up going to places like Mexico which is a third world country. I also love the fact that Americans think that owning a gun is a right because it was written on a piece of paper over 200 years ago when guns had a rate of fire of about 3 rounds per minute.
There were guns back then that could hold up to 20 shots (Girardoni air rifle), as well as early machine guns such as the puckle gun. I guess the first amendment's got to go or be heavily restricted as the founding fathers only wrote with ink and paper, having never anticipated the invention of the television, internet, and tiktok (sarcasm).
@@FirstnameLastname-sb9uv why is it so religiously upheld. Why can't they be self critical and modify and change it to suit the modern day. I rlly don't get it
@ahab The same reason we don't have universal health care - money! The large majority of people want more regulations on guns, but people pay politicians to fight against regulation. I feel like you could have figured that out from the video. Virtually anytime a foreigner ask why we do something they find weird it's about money.
@@shaneg9081 More regulations of guns may reduce mass shootings, but IMO would do nothing to reduce crime.
Have you left your country ?
Wearing shoes inside the house, why?
Just why?
P.s- excluding house slippers of course.
omg, yes thank you for saying that!!! I absolutely don't get it?! Like, why do you want the dirt from the street outside on your floors and carpets?
even wors: shoes on the bed !!! It lets me cringe so hard every time I see it in videos or movies.
@@HangryKitsune 😫
@@k.tanagatari I've met some Chinese-American exchange students, who did this. My theory is that it's an American thing that sticks after a few generations🧐
(There were 7 of them, 5 did wear shoes inside and were third gen+ Americans. I know that 7 isn't much of a case study but it made scenes).
@@k.tanagatari I'm from Germany and nobody here does that. It's just so weird!
WTF 2.13 dollars an hour!! That really should be illigal, just wow. I live in the Netherlands, and since finishing off school, I have been full-time waitering and I earn 11 euros (12.48 dollars) an hour!!! I also get my monthly tips and extra "vacation money" (it's some extra money you get when you work during vacations and on Sundays)... wow I really can't get over the 2.13 an hour. It's inhuman!
I’m glad the minimum wage exists in the UK and probably Europe
JustSarah still, In the U.K. people under 18 have to work for minimum wage which is £4.35/hr, about $5.50/hr.
I've never heard of that low a wage before. I live in CA, and the minimum wage here is $12. It's still pretty low, though, if you consider the living costs.
Stephi what’s CA
Federal law requires minimum wage. Restaurants pay less and expect the tip to make up the difference. if the tip does not make up the difference, they are required to pay the difference to minimum wage.
If Bernie Sanders was European or Canadian, he would have been a multi-term beloved prime minister.
@@ih9799 How? Oh I don't know, the same way the rest of the developed world and most of the developing world has adopted them? Idk just spitballing here.
I H His website literally details what he will do to pay in exact economic terms
@@ih9799 that argument with the jobs is nonsense. you would need the same amount of people, or even more for a free healthcaresystem. but they would be employed by the system , not the privat investor who wants to have big profits
@@ih9799 To be fair I don't blame him for not knowing how to institute such MASSIVE change. The stuff he wanted to do was extremely complicated to do. Though I still do wish he won even despite that. He would've been able to do some of it. Or at least normalized the ideas so they could be more easily implemented later.
@@ih9799 happy ? realy ? i don´t belive you
The fact that we have the pledge of allegiance in schools is kind of very stupid
If I told someone that North Korea or China forced children to pledge their loyalty to their country every morning at school, they'd think it was some dictatorial nightmare. Put an American coat of paint on it and suddenly you're bad if you don't want to stand for the pledge.
"That's COMMUNISM!"
@@TuesdaysArt Difference is that you're not legally required to do it
@HDTDNOVIV sure, like that really ever works when you have peer pressure actively forcing you to comply or get ostracised or outright targeted by both students and teachers for the rest of your time in that school.
One person (especially one from a minority) tries not to do it and they will be going through shit for a long long while and even some of the teachers get in on it.
(At least that was how it was explained to me by an American friend from school who lived in a rural area in America till he was 14, when his family moved to europe, honestly cannot remember which state he was from but he didnt have any of the steriotypical accents)
@@HDTDNOVIV youre not required to in china either im chinese my public school only had a flag-raising event once a week and you don't have to say anything just watch
I'm so European that I didn't expect to learn new swear words or receive literal death threats when I politely questioned some of the Trump administration Covid responses on RUclips.
You and us Liberal and Progressive Americans.
@@ArtsyMagic239 actually what the two party has done is truck everyone thinking center right and far right are total opposites. Still what washington was against, but certainly not for the perceived double extremism that is actually one sided extremism
@@ArtsyMagic239 lol, the far left?
@@ivanlagayacrus1891 This ^
Can't remember who I'm quoting (might be trotsky) but "the US is also a one party state, but with typical american extravagance, they have 2 of them"
that "the states have different tax systems" reason to not add tax automatically to price, doesn't make any sense. Europe does not only have different tax systems in close proximity, we also have a plethora of different languages and we manage just fine.
It's like shops close to inner-Schengen-boarders suddenly not advertising prices with taxes because someone from one village over (and therefore one country) over might see them? Or not? The system makes my brain melt...
Americans have a weird habit of explaining away their problems by asserting the USA is a uniquely complicated snowflake of a country, even when there are dozens of examples of places which have solved that exact problem.
Sales taxes in the US are even more splintered, I give them that, with not only national differences, but county and city differences. Still, having at least both prices labeled in store seems a minimum.
@@barvdw You do realise that that doesn't apply solely to US? European countries also have counties with their own taxes. That's just a reason to add the tax automatically to the tag. How confusing must it be, if the taxes change so much within such a small area. How does one keep up with it?
I'm European, and yes, I know that cities and counties have different taxes here, too, but the VAT is nationwide the same, as are taxes on alcohol or tobacco, and that's what we're talking about here. There's no city sales tax of 0.1% on groceries, or a 0.3% county tax on alcohol in the EU.
And I agree, leaving it out is not making it less confusing, at least the prices all taxes included should be on the price label in the stores, not just on the final bill. Publicity can be adapted to this situation, it is not as if all stores in the same chain always have the same prices anyway.
"...because I was indoctrinated to believe that a piece of fabric means more than the freedoms that it's supposed to represent."
"Australia, my favourite country in Europe" well if they where european enough for a Eurovision I don't see a problem
for a what sorry
@@matematicarka Eurovision is a sing contest between countries from Europe. Australia participates too, for some reason
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What really pisses me off is the whole "leaders of the free world" and "best country in the world" thing...
Please Americans, stop, it's embarrassing.
Then pay up. Pay your fair share of defending Europe. Pay your fair share of drug development. Pay your fair share of defending the sea lanes.
Please Europeans, stop. Put up or shut up.
What do you want with your drug development we do it we have Pharma companies Here too
Light House Could you tell that to the illegal immigrants constantly bombarding our southern border with people too? Seems they haven’t gotten the memo yet that america is actually super terrible and no one should want to live here
These two conservative trolls have been replying everybody, just ignore them
Nothing is forcing you have troops in Europe except the military industrial complex. You do deals with europe because America wants to be in Europe so they have more control.
When I was 19, I told my boss I felt like I was going to throw up. She told me "You're not going home early." I projectile vomited on the cash stand 5 minutes later. She sent me down to wardrobe to get a clean shirt..... That was fun (for the record, I knew I was not contagious as did my boss. I had a migraine triggered by perfume, but still.)
haha.... I can barf on cue, no fingers down the throat or nothin' ... must be an inherited trait, cuz my father could do it, too
I had a similar experience once but I'm from the Netherlands. I was feeling ill suddenly at work, I went to get some water, but on the way it got worse and I threw up in the trash can. I was sent home immediately.
Not being able to take maternity leave for longer than a few weeks. We take have at least 9 months off, with at least half pay. That’s insane as a mum! You need at least 6 months off to recover let alone bond with your child[ren].
UK has shared maternity/paternity leave now iirc which also means the dad gets to support the mum a lot more and bond with baby - this is a huge thing, I've male friends who hated their newborn child until it was able to speak "just a bag of flesh that poops itself and screams", paternal bonding is thankfully now seen as more important these days than it ever was before.
It's down to the couple to split it how they'd like.
Kara Russell and in the US it’s unpaid as well. Many new moms can’t afford to take the maternity leave they are allowed, because it’s unpaid and most are living paycheque to paycheque.
Yeah we get 6weeks MAX. Most of the time it is 2-4. Its unpaid
@@DontTrippMe That's absolutely mad. In Finland the mother gets at least 105 days of paid leave and then there's 50 more days of paid parental leave that the parents can share as they like. After that you can stay home with your kid on a government paid leave without losing your job until the kid is 3 years old. So in theory you could have about 4 years of paid leave and then just go back to work. Of course the government paid leave isn't your whole salary but it's something you get by with, especially if the other parent is still working.
For an example my mom was on a government paid parental leave for 5 years after having me and my brother and then when my brother turned 3 she went back to the work she had left 5 years earlier. My dad was working the whole time though.
How would small businesses afford that
Just advertise the burger as $1.20 everywhere. Then, depending on the tax in the state, adjust the price behind the scenes so it comes out as $1.20 with taxes
The burger is not the problem. Try going to buy a $20.000 car, the taxes add up really fast 😳
@@yolacintia Same reasoning: adjust the prices so the car comes out as 22000 everywhere. Sucks that it gets more expensive, but it works. And I for one am happy to decrease my standard of living by a few percent of it gives me planability
A company has no reason, no incentive, to lose money. Ever. And having a universal price across all tax regions would either lead a business abandoning higher tax regions entirely or raising the price of a product in every region to match the area with the highest tax.
Or advertise the before tax price and have each shop add it to the menu or price tag.
Honestly, though, about the taxes: that really shouldn't be a big deal. European countries have different tax rates too, but international manufacturers or stores selling their products add them pretty much everywhere. I don't think it would be any different if the states wanted to do the same.
I don't know what it's like there but in the US taxes arent just different across states. Each county and even city will have their own additional taxes added onto grocery stores, resturaunts, etc. A McDonalds cheeseburger will be a slightly different price in my town than in the neighboring one and even more so if I leave the county. Sales tax on groceries is 9 cents where I live, while in the next town over it's 11 cents. Don't get me wrong, it's dumb but at least there's a reason for this one.
@@lol2Dlol the only reason for it, is advertising by chain stores!
Nothing stops each individual shop to show you the after-tax price. And the advertising issue could be solved by selling the same product all over the country at the same price by adapting the before tax price.
I agree. Different countries in Europe have different consumer tax rates, and all taxes are added on the price on things you buy in stores. The tax rate is fixed from the government in that country.
If course you can buy the same thing in different stores in different cities for different amount of money, but the tax rate is always the same, and included in the price.
@@lol2Dlol that's even more reason to show the actual price including tax when in store.
Printed advertising can have the note at the bottom stating tax additional but that is different to walking in and having to guess how much tax is going to be added to my bill.
@@lol2Dlol well in Europe companies don't set a price which looks nice and then add taxes but rather set a price they want the product to have (e.g. 19,99€) and then subtract the taxes from it to get it's correct price. But shown to the customers is the full price incl. taxes because that's what the product actually costs for the customers.
Same could be applied to the US. Just set a price e.g. a cheesburger for 2.99$ and then each store calculates the taxes individually and gets their normal price. So in one store the burger itself costs 2.90 and in the neighbouring town it costs 2.88. But for consumers it always costs 2.99 incl. taxes
In short:
America decisions= money
yeah :/
Land of the free (market).
sounds like Mr Krabs
@intempify survival of the richest
I thought every country was that way....have I just been brainwashed?!
I’m too European to understand why Americans always go on about how great their country is. I really can’t think of a single thing that other countries don’t do vastly better.
Let's see, medical care, innovation, protecting the world, setting the world economic house in order; I can't think of anything any country does better than the US.
Christian Libertarian Your first point is medical care? Yo bruh really? Just because of that Im not sure if you’re being serious or you’re a troll.
@@goodjohnpanda3958 You don't seem to understand medical care. You get "Potemkin Care" in Europe. It looks like care, but it isn't. Look at prostate cancer mortality in the UK compared to the US: 50 % higher. Look at where Nobel prizes are being awarded. Look at breast cancer mortality in Italy: 65% worse than the US.
Where am I getting these numbers? From the EuroCare 5 study. That showed that the US had better survival rates in each and every type of cancer when compared to the SEER rates in the US.
@@christianlibertarian5488 Italians live longer than anyone else , maybe only beaten by Japan
Christian Libertarian men from the UK can get a free prostate screening/examination from their GP at the first sign of trouble, thus the people that haven’t got it checked out are already too advanced for treatment to be wholly effective. Also, there’s so much institutional racism that i would put money on a large amount of cases from POC or poorer areas are just being disregarded. Where’s the study for those mortality figures btw? Would genuinely like a link to read it myself. Edit: spelling
When I worked at Domino's, you got paid $4.45 when delivering, and $7.25 when in the store. You would hit a button when you confirm grabbing the order, and then n hit it again when you got back. That button would switch you between the two pay types. I once caught my boss hitting my button, swapping me from $7.25 to $4.45 while I was in the back doing dishes. When I called him out, he started threatening to fire me. So, I just never showed back up.
Jokes on him, I was only working there as a side gig, I was doing computer repair full time, and the delivery job was just extra money plus exercise
Edit: the place actually caught fire a few months later due to the bad wiring in the office I TOLD HIM ABOUT, AND HE REFUSED TO FIX
The length of TV ads. In US you get two minutes of the show and 20 minutes of ads, then another two minutes before the next ad break. EU has legislation that controls the maximum length of ad breaks and how soon you can have the first ad break after the previous one.
1:21 “you can’t really expect companies to” wtf yes I can they’re trying to get money from me
"the UK is just as bad with universities" Actually, you get student finance from the government and it comes out of your taxes, you pay a really small amount if you earn £25K+ if you work in the UK and the debt gets automatically wiped in 30 years Fun fact: most students never fully repay their debt
OR Scotland, tuition is free but with the usual loans if you need them. Ofc the idea of the "free" tuition is that you get a better job and pay it back in your tax which is better imo.
Nah he said it's also bad though not as bad as the USA and like sure we can get student finance and stuff but in the last 20 years the cost of uni has tripled twice you know? So like even though it could be worse it could be far better and the 9000 a year plus living expenses does stop people from going to uni so clearly it is an issue
@@ih9006 but it's not really 9000 because we never actually pay it back... whereas US student loan companies hunt you down and dont care if you've lost your job they still want their money.
Most students never fully repay their debt in America either but that’s because it’s so egregious they are likely to die before all the interest is payed off
@@yellobb3848 ours get written off after x number of years... and if you dont earn over a certain amount or you're unemployed you don't pay anything.
About stick shift: as a Finn it's just nice to be able to control the gears myself. All automatics I've driven tend to switch to a higher gear when the RPM is juuuust a bit too small. It's fine if you're driving on highways and just accelerate to highway speed once and then cruise, but driving in the city and constantly going slowly up small hills (that can be icy), the RPM seems to never be quite enough to be comfortable. Same if I want to accelerate faster: a turbo-diesel (ok the US drives those damn gas-guzzlers) engine is a bit sluggish if you switch to 3rd gear too early. When I accelerate to highway speed quickly (ramps are short), the acceleration is just faster when I stay in 2nd until I'm going like 55kph. On icy roads it's also easier to keep control when the car won't do anything by itself that could surprise me.
Speaking of the gas-guzzlers: WTF?! Why would you want to drive something that takes 10L/100km? 4-5 is where it's at. I don't care if your gas is irresponsibly cheap and technically allows it, it still costs more if you have to buy double the amount! That money can buy me more video games, why would I waste it on gas?
"...a piece of fabric means more than the freedoms it's supposed to represent" very nicely and well said.
I will never understand how lobbying is just something that everyone has accepted
At least our politicians have the decency to take bribes in the shadows and not tell anyone
Europe is controlled by bureaucrats so I don't know why anyone would bribe a politician.
Because it's not something that, legally, we can stop. Lobbying exists as an extension of freedom of speech. It exists both for corporate interests, but also on the side of minority groups trying to get their voices heard.
Lobbying, in and of itself, isn't a bad thing. Writing to your leader about an issue you care about is lobbying. The problem is graft, corruption, and valuing corporate interests above human ones.
I’m not being rude when I say that America is a “first world” country through modernisation alone. In almost every other area they cannot be considered a first world country. Healthcare, money, education, and physical resources are so poorly distributed it is no surprise that a huge amount of the population live below the poverty line. 78% of Americans live pay check to pay check which is pretty disgusting to be honest; the percentage in the U.K. is currently 31%.
I’m finding it less surprising why communist countries are getting stronger economies and fight capitalism tooth and nail, when the American example of capitalism is so bad. It also explains the high rates of religion. The % of the population practicing religion is almost entirely inversely proportional to a countries level of education and wealth. American religious fervor is comparable to most third world African countries, not modern democracies.
It’s surprising and sad.
And its painfully obvious during this election that we’ve all been brainwashed to think this is normal.
This is something I learned a while ago. When deciding where to travel I group USA with authoritarian countries.
America leads the way! In per capita imprisonment and military spending...
Wealth distribution most certainly is not a goal here in the U.S. lol That’s why it’s poorly done! We let big monied interests control our elections and then of course, the incentive to distribute wealth is greatly diminished. Most rich folks want to hold onto that wealth in the U.S. What annoys me is those kind of folks seem to miss the interconnectedness of society. It’s like they think they can live in their gated communities above the fray while the plebes toil out of sight forever.
Communist countries rarely have successful economies. See, in China it also only works because of exploitation (which... very Capitalist of them). The other strongest economies aren't communist, they often represent a mixture of free market combined with socialist measures to fix or "balance" the social instabilities that occur with the free market.
I love the whole 'don't disrespect our flag!' while farting in flag budgie smugglers🤣
They actually aren't 'spose to incorporate it onto clothing at all. It is against the code. Even the little flag (half an inch long) on my military-style boots from Wal-mart are in violation of this. *shrugs*
You cannot expect companies with actual legal departments to figure out sales tax, but individuals with no particular legal background and a lot less time to do so will have no issues. Spot on American logic
To be fair, a company would have to adjust every item in pretty much every county according to the local sales tax where a person only needs to know their local sales tax, it’s far easier for individuals to do it from a logistical sense, that being said there are certainly plenty of people too dumb or lazy to do that.
@@wolftamerwolfcorp7465 "It makes sense to have obfuscated pricing, because corporations are more important than people in good ol' USA!"
seigeengine The tax rate in the USA can not only varies from state to state but from county to county and even city to city. I’m not sure how tax rates are broken down in other countries but in the US that makes it easier to just have the consumer figure it out given how impractical and unwieldy it becomes to make a different price tag for the same item in, at best, every state and, at worst, every individual store. Regardless, let’s oversimplify the issue instead of giving people a degree of accountability for understanding their local sales tax.
@@wolftamerwolfcorp7465 ... It's basically the same everywhere else too.
I'm not oversimplifying anything. You're making excuses for an immoral and malicious system.
seigeengine >malicious
A company can’t make a price spike that coincides with a tax increase to fool the people who don’t have any form of critical thought which means people know that if the written price increases then it’s thanks to the company, the inverse is also true where the company isn’t held accountable for something that is solely the fault of a tax rate increase but no, there’s only bad things about the way the USA does things.
Born and raised in the U.S. and have lived abroad for over ten years due to work, Europe and Asia. Live in any country long enough and you start to see the cracks, but it also helps you see things from a different point of view.
"Why would you want to not educate people?" Because then they'd stop being such gullible sheep and might actually vote in a way that benefits them instead of just voting how their corporate overlords want them to.
But college is where people are brainwashed into being liberal by their professors. That's was conservatives are being silenced on campuses
Maybe, just maybe, through education people realise how terrible being a conservative is.
@@BizzUK lmao that was good
Maybe just maybe, college is an outdated and unnecessary process to achieve a goal that you can otherwise achieve without submitting yourself to authoritarian rule. The only reason to go to college in this era is if you want to work in medicine, stem, or education. Every other occupation does not require a degree of any kind. Every piece of human knowledge is on the internet. I've watched enough college lectures online to have a doctorate by now, and I had to pay noone for the opportunity.
Money xD
How the food laws work
The amount of chemicals and stuff in American food is horrific and I don’t get how anyone could do that to themselves
I don't get how a country built on secular values is more religious than some European countries that have state religions.
Nikolai508 depends where you are in the country. Some states are pretty secular and religion is something you don’t really see, but then there’s states (particularly an area called the Bible Belt, aka southern states) that are very religious and apply religious ideals in laws
Take a look into the origin of the New England colonies in particular and you'll see that "secular values" had nothing to do with it. The Founding Fathers may well have established a country based on secular values, but that's not what the country was built on.
We're not, our politicians use it as a way of gaining votes by telling 1 group that the other group is trying to take something away from them. There are entire industries built to do just that.
A simplified explanation could be: They distrust, even hate, government. Since government isn't religious, being overly religious is an anti-government ideology.
But then again, it all depends on the teaching and attitudes behind the religeon. During the Victorian age in the UK, quaker factory owners saw the damage that poverty, poor housing, expensive healthcare and little or no education wreaked on the workforce. How could they ease their consciences and increase profits at the same time? They realised that a healthy and happy workforce was a productive one. From Port Sunlight to Bournville, towns and villages were built to give their workers decent housing, healthcare and education. They were rewarded by a loyal and hardworking workforce. It was an old biblical principle of you get back more than you give. This, in time, gave birth to the welfare state. Education, pensions, free healthcare at point of delivery, social security and care homes. Care for the populace from cradle to grave. The adversarial dog eat dog economy leaves a lot of hungry, angry people. On the whole, people turn to religeon when they feel hopeless. If they feel their prayers are not being listened to, they get angry and start to doubt. So starts the decline.
I feel like a lot of stuff like "why does America do ___?" can be answered with one thing. large corporations lobbying.
america is an oligarchy, or a plutocracy. though ofc many people mistake it for a democracy.
Yup. Everything America does is to make more money for those already rich.
@@sjs9698 the fun part is 100% of the population falls to capitalist propaganda so trying to debate anyone is pointless
@@benkoskinen3871 Even people who lean more left on social issues thinks that society will burn to the ground if we bothered treating human beings with dignity and respect. The Red Scare still leaves a scar on the country.
How are those people not assassinated with amount of guns in the U.S.
Always I see people complaining “why doesn’t school teach you how to do useful things, like how to do your taxes?” And I’ve been thinking, why do you need to know how to do your taxes, they’re just taken out of your wages automatically? Unless you’re self-employed, in which case you’ll probably need to hire an accountant, why would you need to know how to do taxes? Turns out all those people complaining were Americans. Wack.
This blew my mind!!! I never understood what 'do your taxes' meant until now...
Our taxes get taken out of our wages automatically too. The issue is, sometimes we get more taken out of our paychecks than we actually owe. This can be for a lot of different reasons, for example tax breaks from living situations(being a full-time student, having a child etc.). So each year you file a tax refund to get back the money you overpaid for the previous year. This is what people are referring to when they talk about "doing your taxes".
@C J Of course we europeans are ignorant on this matter ... because we don't file taxes idiot. I am also ignorant when it comes to car engines, because I'm not a mechanic.
As for "but you think you know whats going on" yeah, we do ... in our own country - dipshit.
@Sa rah as another German I feel the same way. Filing my taxes got me a yearly refund of hundreds of euros during college each year. So yeah I wish I had learned how to do that somewhere
@C J why are you so defensive about this though? most Americans agree it's a stupid pointlessly bureaucratic system. It's ridiculous that I have to pay TurboTax $60 just to send a piece of paper to the IRS asserting the fact that I overpaid in taxes for the last year, which is something they already know, just to get that money back. By rights, for the vast majority of people who get traditional w-2s from their employer, taxes really should be automatic.
Hey mate....I randomly came across your video “why you’re done with RUclips” and learned that you were also an American living abroad and recent UK citizen...it intrigued me to check out your channel and I can relate a ton to your experiences and mindset.. I’m originally from west coast US and living in France for +7 years and recently became French so I understand these European /American videos ... I’m a new subscriber and hope your RUclips issues get worked out soon so you keep making bomb videos! Cheers!
Evan: why does everyone drive manual cars? It's unnecessary
THE UK: moneyyyy
If you learn automatic you can only drive automatic cars. If you learn manual you can drive any car
That's because you need experience to drive manual well. An automatic driver would have no experience in controlling the clutch, however a manual driver could use an automatic. It is simply more dangerous to go from automatic→manual than manual→automatic.
And the automatic one uses more fuel (unless you drive the manual really terrible)
Manual is also easier for Drifting and Drag Racing because you can shift faster than an automatic if you time it correctly
Solution: don’t buy/sell manual. Make them go out of date. Two, why would I go drag or drift racing. I didn’t know about the fuel efficiency. But now I’m reading more modern versions of automatic cars can beat manuals in fuel efficiency. (Don’t get me wrong, but I also want to learn manual just for fun).
@@copyweirdo For fun obviously, automatics are more for people who don't like to have fun with their car.
I'm too European to understand why someone eats out every night.
Sadly, from what I've heard it's because eating take-out is much cheaper than cooking yourself. Groceries are exprensive in the US.
@@majascha3414 Wow, that's insane if it's cheaper eating out :O
In a normal week, i eat 6 times at home and maybe one day i eat out.
As a Belgian btw
I only eat out for birthdays from friends and family. Am Dutch.
@@don_p7546 I honestly can't remember the last time I ate dinner out. Maybe it was 4 years ago :P
I eat brunch at cafées once or twice a year though. And I eat take-away twice a year (The day after new years eve and the day of a carneval here, where we drink from 7am untill evening/night). The average dane orders a little more take-away than me though.
I'm danish.
Believe me when I say, that living in snowy mountains (like switzerland) you truly learn to appreciate a gear lever giving you complete control over the car 😂
6:35 In any situation in the UK where the flow of traffic would be improved by allowing cars to turn left while other traffic is going, we use filter lights. They're much easier to understand for me, are explicit and are built into the light network so there's no people using their judgement (which is where all the accidents happen). I definitely prefer that to having someone just appear to try kill me for no reason.
It's so interesting for me to be an American living in Ireland because I am constantly attempting to explain America to my friends and usually failing miserably
Alyda Marincovich mupp Ireland
I’m Irish and there is nothing he said that I didn’t already know about America. Maybe you’re not good at explaining things clearly so people can understand if they question you. It’s like Americans think we all have red hair and have drink problems. Lol 😂
Letitia Kearney That’s just a caricature. No one really believes that.
If I say I’m from NI will I get my arse kicked in here?
@@letitiakearney2423 Dude, just because you might know more about the US than the people she's with doesn't mean she's perpetuating the Irish Stereotype 😂
American problems I'm too European to understand: America, like the whole country
As an American I can say I don't understand us either sometimes.
@@soph.ie1024 that is both comforting and terrifying at the same time
@@JKat94 It's a massive country with more diversity (in certain places) than almost anywhere else in the world. This naturally lends itself to a complex, complicated system that requires compromise. Far from perfect, but not bad. Also movies and media over-sensationalize and dramatize a lot of American culture.
As an American I don’t know how we’re so stupid... ALSO WTF IS TRUMO DOING HERE SOMONE KICK HIM OUT OF OFFICE!
Austin Johnson australia is bigger than America and they don’t have these problems
I remember my first time (and only time) going to america. On the flight i saw the weather forecast and it said it was gonna be 100 degrees the whole week. And i got really confused, i genuinely thought we were gonna burn to death 😂
that's me when watching tv shows and they mention anything about the temperture and its like 97
I once said something to my brother along the lines of “apparently it’s 83 degrees today” and he just looked confused and realised I meant Fahrenheit. The hottest recorded temp in Celsius is 58-63 in Death Valley...
To be fair 100F kinda feels like burning to death and it can in fact kill you from heat stroke. I know some people live in places where it's that hot the whole summer. It only gets that hot 1-2 days a year where I live!
Or as a Finn would say, sounds like a comfy sauna.
@@harmonicaveronica That’s about 38C (well technically 37.8C). That’s definitely hot as shit, but there are many places around the world where that’s a semi-normal occurrence lol. Hearing ‘100 degrees’ is like I’m expecting to be able to cook lunch with a pan on the driveway. But really it’s less than 40C, so way too hot for me to leave anywhere with air conditioning, but I actually understand the temp and know what it means.
The fact that he wasn’t out of frame in the beginning is so funny to me. You just see him hunched over all awkwardly, waiting to start the intro 😂
“Australia, my favourite part of Europe”
😂😂
Hey! They are even a part of eurovision song contest! XD
Looking at the American education system, I bet there's a not insignificant number of Americans who think that Australia is actually in Europe.
I’ll never forget the time when I went to hire a car in FL (I was working there for a year. I’m from Northern Ireland). Was talking with my friend about how I’d never drove an automatic car, that I was so used to manual. The taxi driver literally turned round with a shocked look on his face and said “you can drive stick? But you’re a girl”
@@VN2L ah, good old ignorant america.
Yeo lads keep er lit from NI too 😂👌🏼
I didn't know we gender stereotyped driving automatic and manual now as well
VN2L I had so many think I was from New Zealand or South Africa. Lol think only one or two people got it right the whole time
Fräulein Zuckerguss couldn’t believe when he said it. This was about 8 years ago
7:00 yes it is in Europe but they mean they are speaking for Finland not Europe as a whole. Again, Europe includes many different cultures you can't combine them into one
Imogen Lumping the whole of Europe together always kinda irritated me. Yes we’re all white, yes we all interacted w/ each other since forever, but we’re still all too different to be lumped together, different cultures and traditions, different languages, even different religions. Generalizing Europe really makes no sense.
FireGriffon exactly! I'm from the UK and we're so different and probably much more boring than other European countries. 😆
@@FireGriffon It's kind of the beauty of Europe, though. Look at a globe and see just how tiny Europe is and consider how much culture we have here. I like the idea of a European Union when it comes to ease of travel, trade and work within Europe, but I'd hate to see an actual singular European country in the style of America or Russia.
Okay but jsyk, this is how Americans feel about states and Europeans are always referring to the USA as one monolith despite us treating our states nearly as independent as EU countries lol
Fun fact, when I was a server at Black Bear Diner I got written up for calling in because I woke up with strep throat and literally couldn’t talk. I had to go to the dr and get antibiotics and everything, but nope. Next shift my manager and supervisor both sat me down at a booth and told me I could either sign my write up pretty much saying “yeah I messed up because I got sick how dare I” and if I didn’t sign it I didn’t have a job anymore.
I never signed it and got another job within a week.
Yeah, I dont know a European country, where that would be legal. We actually have right. All kinds of rights, not just workers rights.
America is like the only dystopia europeans are kinda familiar with
侶冴え天 (Ryosaeten) yeah, you think there’s no country fucked up more than this but you then look over to China with their surveillance system and concentration camps for Uighurs...
not really but it's the only one that thinks its a first world country XD
@@dj.samsam_ exactly what I say when people start making America sound so terrible like ...... 😂 Um how come no one is hating on China as much as America?
@@sc_arriola382 I thing it might be the fact, that USA is a democracy, so it should know better, when China is a communist country (is it a dictatorship? i dunno).
@@lenula1 it's a dictatorship, more or less. top tip for recognising communist states: they have no government AT ALL... also there aren't any. never have been, sadly.
amusingly the ideal of communism is not that much unlike that of libertarianism: no state, just free people. but ofc in communist theory there's an assumption that a socialist state has set up things like healthcare &c properly & is now no longer needed to run it.
also: for samd.: the uk has more of a surveilance state than china. & anyway 'we aren't as bad as china' is hardly a boast.
As a bartender I've worked with the flu, diarrhea, wisdom tooth infection, food poisoning, etc. If I tried to call out sick I was at risk for getting my job. So, hope none of yall got sick. I washed my hands every possible second of my shift.
6:25 in poland we have little green arrows traffic lights which when green allow to turn even when the main light is red
it's the same here in Singapore
And UK
Those exist in the USA too, but they’re mostly found for left turns because of the whole “right turns on red being allowed with some prerequisites unless otherwise posted” policy.
I think those green arrows originated in the GDR (or at least ossies claim that), so currently they exist in Germany, too, but might get removed completely because of people who don't stop or don't respect pedestrian right of way and just think "oh, green arrow means always green, haha car engine go brr."
Same in Estonia
i thankfully did my first degree in the uk when it was still free. Universities began charging in 1998. I did the first degree in 2000 and they "waived" the fees for me as i had high school grades and had moved cross country for the course. they also paid my rent and gave me a monthly stipend for food :)
Why do Americans say horse back riding insted of horse riding, like where else are u going to sit ? 😂 lol eye glasses, why so specific 😭 from the UK !
I think it was to distinguish the difference between riding bareback or not, or in sulkies.
Melissa
So in that case you would call it horse bareback riding
There’s horse back riding and horse bareback riding, both still unnecessarily telling the person they should sit on the back of the horse, don’t wanna make that mistake.
I would say riding horses but never horse riding because that just sounds weird, if horse comes before riding than I would have to say horseback riding.
The difference between horse back riding and bareback riding is that horse back riding is WITH a saddle, and bareback is without. "Horse back riding" doesn't exactly refer to the action of riding a horse but rather the style of riding the horse. Similarly, in the US the term "riding" is less of the action itself, and more of how you're going about doing the action. You can ride side saddle, horse back and bareback. On the more athletic side of it, you can ride bareback(again) or saddle bronc (and a few more). But I also think that since America has such a strong history with horses, wagons trains, and obsession with manifest destiny, that it may have originally been used in the terms of (once again) how you're riding, whether it be further up the horse, at the base of its neck, or on its actual back. Also, to put a difference between riding on the actual horse (I think the "horse back" part really hammers it in that you're on the horse) versus riding on something (like a wagon) that's being pulled by the horse. As one more little side note, I think that "riding" (at least in American english) refers to some sort of plural, and just "horse" is singular, so it sounds a little odd to us to say "horse riding". (I feel it's more common to say riding like "We're going riding.", but if you were alone you'd say "I'm going for a ride.", it's just more common to phrase it like that)
Micheal macintyre 😂
I love the last point you made. I’m always trying to bring that to my family’s attention, and they don’t ever want to fully agree with me. I don’t think that one country can truly be the BEST country. It doesn’t make sense. Every country has flaws, and many countries are on par with each other. I’m from the US and I’m going to be going to uni in the UK, and some people are like “wHy wOuLd yOu WaNt tO leAvE AmEriCa???” As if the UK is really that different, and I’m crazy for wanting to live there. Anyways lol I love your videos!
Thanks!
I really hope that you are prepared for a culture shock, and good luck in your chosen subject.
"As if the UK is really that different" Hahaha, the UK is really that different! But it's a great choice and wish you luck in your studies.
The UK is a million times better trust me
You’ll be really surprised just how different it is. But mostly in a good way.
Apparently (according to my EMT friend) the reason our toilet stall doors are so high is in case someone is in the stall and has a medical emergency: most people can be pulled out below the door. Toilet stalls in other countries like here in Japan have a special kind of hinge that can allow for the entire door to be removed pretty quickly, so it's fine for the door to go all the way down.
Plus when they have to knock down the stall doors it’s cheaper to replace them because it’s made out of a cheaper material. If need be because of the gap they don’t have to break down the stall door, they can also crawl under or climb over….. everything comes down to MONEY
Paramedic in Canada here (we have the same giant stall door gaps), and I never heard anything about medical reasons. I did hear the shitty excuse that it’s easier to clean the bathrooms with the bigger gaps because basically the gaps are big enough for them to get in and clean… but how often is every single place scrubbing the space between the door and the wall?!
My guess is it’s probably because it’s cheaper to make smaller doors or something.
Most people in America CAN'T fit in those gaps 🤔🤦♀️
In the UK the handy red green occupied indicator on the outside also doubles as an emergency way to unlock it from the outside (you need a tool, often just a large flat screwdriver but sometimes a thing with 2 prongs)
For ease of cleaning we still have a gap at the bottom but it's normally like 4-6"
Enough you can get the mop head underneath but no more
I heard it was due to druggies ODing n the stalls.
What I imagine are American problems, "should I take my handgun or semi-automatic rifle to school today?"
My public Highschool had a bomb threat (I lived in one of the safest towns, to begin with, and we were one of the schools selected to test out an active shooter drill. It was assumed that because we were in such a safe area none of the students would have legitimate PTSD triggered. A few teachers said the exact words "It's a training exercise for the police"). We were still told to go to class. I didn't even know there was a bomb threat until I got to the doors to enter. For those who felt unsafe and stayed home, there was no mandatory classwork to complete. It was up to the teachers if they felt like giving any supplemental work at all. Additionally at least once a school year there was a big enough threat that there were 3-6 police cars there monitoring the situation.
I believe you made this comment as a slight joke-but as were allowed on campus again I was given pepper spray and a few other things I NEED to keep on hand to be safe. Nothing like a gun or knife but things that can do great damage very easily. If those aren't allowed then I keep a smaller travel size hairspray in reach and slightly out of the way is a cigarette lighter for more dangerous situations. So far neither of those have been banned in general public places I go. I also tell where I'm going and as I'm careful I tell about when I'm going to be back.
Why not take both?
People get that a lot of Americans do NOT own guns, right? And that many are very critical of lax gun laws in the United States.
Why do you have to register to vote? When you turn 18 shouldn't you automatically be able to vote?
Some people can’t vote due to criminal history and some chose not to. It comes from a myth that will make you selected for jury duty. And some people really don’t want to do jury duty.
Where do you live? Are you automatically registered there? In the UK we have to register too. Presumably to save having to keep a nationwide database of all adults and their current addresses. Currently the local authority/Council/government (can't remember who) keep lists of voters who have registered themselves, but they don't have to keep track of where they move to, if they leave the area etc, because they rely on the yearly updates from households.
@@Chelle23464 I used to work at the elections office and still volunteer there. The office gets a list of convicted felons that are purged from the system BEFORE elections even start. It really is because of voter suppression and money.
@@Chelle23464 why are the unable to vote due to criminal history? If you're in jail for the entire term, I can see that, still don't agree. Once you're out everything that happens applies to you and you should be able to vote on that.
@@orangew3988 I live in the Netherlands. Every legal Dutch citizen needs to have a registered post address, If you don't have one you can get a fine. When there's an election you get send a voting card to that address, together with that card and your ID you can make the vote. Even if you're in prison, depending on your conviction you you still have the rights to vote but first register someone outside to do this for you. And ofcourse you can still choose not to vote.
I'm too European to understand why the US thinks it's the leader of the free world, or even a part of it.
Here is the answer: MONEY
@@natanoj16 Huh?
@@natanoj16 US is in big debts 🧐
Because the US defends the world order. You don't. You sponge off of the world created by the US. Pay your share of defending your country; pay your share of pharmaceutical drug development; come up with innovations. You do none of these.
@@christianlibertarian5488 Doesn't mean that world order has anything to do with the idea of the free world. Actually the opposite is true. Much of the instability we see now, are direct consequences of US foreign policy of the cold war and up to today. You've overthrown too many democratically elected governments and replaced them with violent dictatorships to be a part of the free world. Guantanamo Bay alone precludes you from having any pretentions of even being a part of the free world.
Why is it so hard for US companies to advertise their price state by state with differing prices, when that exact thing happens in Europe. Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Germany. Some have the same VAT, some differ, they all share free open borders and have people moving freely between them. It seems that it's entirely possible for companies to work out the taxes and adverise just fine accross state boundaries in the EU. Yet they have people from the US convinced it'd be impossible.
Well they've also got different languages and localisation to worry about so they might as well. The US's marketing areas are way more broad and besides taxes... very similar
I can't help but wonder if it's because, were they to list the taxed prices, people would start to question just why the hell the same damn items have to be taxed at different rates anyway (and then wherever possible just flood the cheaper state)
@@TottWriter that already happens... there are US states with no sales tax at all and it becomes a problem for local businesses near state boundaries to keep customers when they can just drive past them and shop in the next state cheaper.
@@Epicentera I mean yeah everyone I know always goes to Delaware for big shops cause it's tax free. They lowered the tax in South Jersey to discourage it but they lowered it from about 6% to about 3%... with the good NJ malls being in the 6% area we just cross the bridge for the good ol 0%
@@evan I think it was actually the taxes video you did a while back I first learned about this from :P it's absolutely insane