Tipping should be a reward for a good job done, not a necessity to cover the owners ass because they don't want to pay their employees a decent wage (not a living wage, but enough for a comfortable life with few worries and even, shocker, the chance for a vacation).
Excusez-moi? Vacations? So that the poor fellows get to see that there are countries in which things run a lot more justly? No way! If word went around, people would actually begin to wake up to the nonsense constantly fed to them and these moneybags couldn't pit people against one another any more... Sorry for the sarcasm, but I just couldn't help it. Besides, the devil always dumps onto the biggest heap.
@@Robidu1973 The sarcasm is actually appreciated. So you have the same saying as we have in Slovenia "The Devil always shits on a pile." . It's a surprise how true that can be.
I was listening to a radio programme about working hours, retirement age etc. Years ago people were predicting the consequences of automation in manufacturing and other industries. They thought that by the year 2000 people would be working a 20 hour week and retiring at 45, because so much work would be done by machines rather than people. They failed to take into account the greed of the employers. Any benefits go to the top bosses, the rich get richer. I'm from UK where they have actually raised retirement ages rather than reduce them.
Haley wasn't correct about Publix not donating money to charities. United Way they donated $25 million. You look at another charity called March of Dimes and Publix has donated around $80 million over the 27 years they have been donating. Publix donates to Special Olympics, Alleviating Hunger, Children Miracle Network Hospitals, Tools for Back to School,Feeding More Together, and Feeding America. During the pandemic Publix bought 150,000 lbs (about 68,038 kg) of produce and 43,000 gallons ( this is about 162,772 liters) of milk from farmers that were forced to throw food away during the beginning of the pandemic. Publix turned around and donated that food to Feeding America.
I've seen a lot of memes about the increase of tipping requests in the US but I not aware that even the self-check out line is tip based....that's nuts
@@KC_Kane and if u would be informed, in Germany our type of government is parliamentary democracy and NOT socialism! Our politicians are just not as corrupt as yours and we have a safety net for poor and sick people. Just imagine going to a doctor when u are concerned about your health or are actually really sick and not get bankrupt and instead are able to stay at home and get rest. 😉
Girl you got me LIT!!!! In the USA, this "tips" thing is out of hand.WHY ASK CUSTOMERS TO GIVE EXTRA $ FOR EMPLOYEES TO DO THEIR JOB?!?!? I went to a Thai restaurant last night for take out. I ordered and paid in advance, leaving a tip. I was told 20 minutes, so I left and came back after 20 minutes, then had to wait another 20!!!! I will ONLY tip AFTER service has been completed from now on. Any tip option will be ignored FROM NOW ON!!! I tip my hair stylist 100% and she deserves it. These other clowns can ask their boss for a raise!
An old story: there are three people, a rich guy, a middle-class guy and a poor guy. There's also a plate with ten cookies. The rich guy takes nine of of the cookies, then turns to the middle-class guy and says: "Watch the poor guy... he's going to steal your cookie!"
In the mid 1970's, when I got my first (part-time) job, at age 16, working as a "bag-boy", at the, then biggest, supermarket chain in The Netherlands I got told that I was not allowed to accept tips under any circumstance....
Yes, we also have self-check-outs here where I live (even new shopping carts with tablets on them - completely whacked out). And there's always someone present to keep an eye on the customers. Not seen somebody asking for tips, though. IMHO if multi-million Dollar corporations can't afford to pay their workers fairly, because they "can't" - then their companies shouldn't be in business!
Whenever I go through self-check-out I am glad that there is still somebody there to help me when I mess up the process. And I do need that help quite often. But tipping?!?! I just paid for my groceries. That should be enough to pay their employees.
Self check out in Germany-> yes, some stores have these cash register systems, usually someone is nearby to explain the system;) There is now even a new system via app, which you can use to scan the products when you put them in the trolley and then just click on: pay now. "Donation boxes": usually these are actually intended for special campaigns = for example: refugee aid, children's emergency aid, etc. and often the companies end up donating the same amount that the customers donated. And only in the case of personal service = hairdresser, restaurant, beautician, etc. there may be a "tip box", often not visible to the customer or yes, near the cash register if the shop has a permanent cashier, and you , would like to give a tip to your "personal helper".
The whole donation thing is something I'm currently thinking a lot about. especially due to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. I honestly just don't get,that the nonprofit organizations ask zivils to donate money so they can BUY the stuff the people need from the big ass multimillion companys. Don't get me wrong, I see that there are people in need and I'm glad there are others who help them. BUT I don't get,y those companies don't just donate the stuff the people need and sell them instead. and I don't get,y nobody speaks about it. and it's not just now with the earthquake but the same with any other crisis around the world. never read about for example Nestlé donated 10 big ass planes full of water and food nor any pharmaceutical company donating shit loads of medicine.
Here in the Netherlands, a large fundraising campaign has also started via giro 555. The donated money alone is intended for assistance in that specific disaster. Even if help may be needed much more elsewhere at that moment. In other words, if the money is not used up completely, it will remain in the account and will not go to another charity. I prefer to donate to doctors without borders who provide help in places where it is needed and therefore also in Turkeye.
In Germany the law about donation actually seems very weird to me. If you as a company want to donate something (for example stock you would no longer need) - you have to pay taxes which are similar to as if you were selling it full price. I am not 100% familiar with specifics of the law, but I heard many times in my company how sad it is that destroying the products is more profitable than just donating them and helping someone
There is a big Edeka next to my office with a self check out. There is always an employer not only to look after thiefs but also to help customers if something doesn't work or if the customer can't find the bread from the "bakery section" or if they want to buy alcohol and the employer has to check an ID of the customer
If you guys in the U.S. don't start to pay decent wages soon, everything will go down the drain pretty quickly. This is such a sick system, sorry to say. Our businesses, companies and entrepreneurships in Europe/Germany do make money too, tons of money, depending on the type of business, even with all the regulations like worker's rights, good salaries, affordable health care, paid sick, parental and vacation leave, in place. This, FYI, is NOT socialism! Yes, socialism existed way back in the GDR, but that was a completely different story. Do not, never ever, mistake our economic and political system for socialism. It IS not!
@@TheaLightweaver That workers are very well taken care of and that it is ensured they have enough free time for themselves. Which applies, of course, also to the shopowners or companies running them. More quality family time for them all.
Socialism: The democratic and public ownership of means of production. Not even China is socialist! Germany doesn’t do that. Germany is as capitalist as the US. The difference is that in DE ,the people have a bit more leverage in regards to their government.
Sooo many things to say…I totally agree first of all! While these millionaires are paying 1/6 of the taxes that most of us pay, and why? Because they have all the money to pay all the tax/legal professionals to find the deductions and if they are caught “bending the rules”🙄, those same legal/tax professionals can get them out of it or keep the IRS away for years! Most Americans can barely pay to have their taxes done!!! And most certainly can’t afford to pay a legal team for protection! I’m sick to death of the workings of this country. It’s absurd. I’m 56, widowed, and work 2 jobs. And I can barely scrape by! And believe me, I am very aware there are sooooo many people who don’t even have what I have. But I do not understand it!! One of the wealthiest most powerful countries in the world and we have people who are struggling to pay for food & medicine at the age of 77 and they are still having to work….It blows my mind. Can’t we figure some other way?
What do you expect from a country that has legalized bribing politicians in 2001? Trump openly said, that he pays politicians to do what he wants. Making it public doesn't make it better - it's still bribing.
That is so sad. Republicans want to defund or even get rid of the IRS - guess why ? It's a shame that working conditions and salary are so bad in the USA while most politicians are super wealthy and some even millionaires. They obviously don't care.
If we're not making much, we're un-American if we don't give away what few dollars we have. I'm paying for groceries with food stamps and I still get asked if I want to round-up or donate a suggested dollar amount. WTF?
german... "der ungezügelte Kapitalismus" ... in english ... "unbridled capitalism" (microsoft translator) ... i think, that you are not! un-american... no German would think that way )
Good video! 👍 The other problem with this "tipping economy" is: what about health care and pensions? You will get loads of elderly people standing outside those stores with cups saying "tips needed, I used to work here"...
It was never supposed to be a liveable income. It was supposed to be a job where highschoolers could earn some money. Mommy and daddy are still supporting these kids.
@@jessicaely2521 That is a fucking lie. People worked minimum wage jobs for years who weren't just high schoolers. That's bullshit nonsense that it was never meant to be liveable income.
Hey Hayley :) I just read a Book "Utopia for Realists: And how we can get there" from Rutger Bregman. He is a Dutch journalist, so the book is fact-based and very well researched. You quickly realize that, for example, the end of poverty is not so unrealistic. I really enjoyed reading the book and dreaming a little of a better world. So i can highly recommend the book to you and everyone else!
Actually we do have self-checkout cash registered at some Kaufland, Edeka, or Rewe stores. And I see those donations things as well. They are usually like "say 'aufrunden bitte' to donate for ..." And we have crappy people here as well. Once I was hanging out next to a river with my husband and a friend and there was this man on his boat. Well, at one point that man came out and locked the gate that lead to the entrance of his boat and saying something like "damit das Fußvolk draußen bleibt" ("so the simple folk stays out"). I think all these people should be more grateful cause where would they be without the "simple people" who produce and sell them the food they eat every day, the nurses who help them when they are sick, the daycare workers who take care of their children while they work in their "upper class" jobs etc. And if they tell others "please donate ..." they should be generous enough to donate as well.
So, in American supermarkets, customers get their goods bagged at the checkout without having to tip, but if you bag yourself, are you expected to give someone extra money? Is this the American future? It's reminiscent of Americans who get upset that restaurants in Europe (not just Germany) don't have free water, but accept that in the US they have to tip 20% more.
@@alonsoxoraique It's a sign of intelligence to realize and accept that you have been lied to! Your arrogance is so typical for the kind of American that is hated all over the world and you probably haven't even left your state once! Incredibly stupid and uneducated, but very proud of it and int he end America is the sh.thole that your Orang Utan talked about, as even many African states have a better social system than you have! Nobody who has ever been to the US gets where your incredible entitlement comes from?!?! Not very much there to be sooo proud of!!!
@@UlliStein From which follows that someone who does NOT share these ideas is not intelligent. Which means there a a lot of Mensa-members and PhD-holders that are just plain stupid, I guess.
Not long ago, I watched a TV Show, called Undercover Boss. The ( secret) Boss met his Employees at the End, offered them Trips, Promotions, etc. I thought by myself, why Not Just a fair wage for everybody?
WOW Hayley!!!, I haven't been down there in years but FLORIDA IS EVEN MORE NUTS THAN ON Television!!!!!! I've not seen such where I currently live but I "shop" absolutely as little as possible and only tip when good service has been rendered .....(or they include it in the bill)
I honestly can't imagine the mailmen (?) or whatever the position is called would place a tipping box there if they got a fair wage. It's either because it's really lacking or it was the idea of the management in the first place. Now, in theory it would be interesting to give the company a call asking what's up with that madness and why they think that's necessary, but you also know that the person handling customer calls and mail gets most likely paid even less than the people in the shop and has zero influence on its operation.
They aren't paid a fair wage. People take these jobs because it's a government organization, so you get damn good health insurance. When you retire you are getting more money than when you worked. Government agencies have a very good pension plan. My grandpa retired from the Post Office. He made I think $10 an hour. His take home pay was I think $21,000. Sure back in 1990 this was darn good pay for no education. When he retired he was had $80,000 a year coming into his pocket. In the 90's you needed to make $40,000 a year to live a good life.
The issue is, that the exploited worker has been convinced that their multi million pound boss not paying an adequate tax is somehow good for them. Those exploited workers are not going out and voting for Bernie, the AOC or the Warren, they are going out and voting for Trump, McCarthy or MTG.
Totally agree, and funny that most of these Corporations/companies do business worldwide, and all of a sudden, it works - even with better pay, 28 days payed vacation PLUS 10 days payed public holidays PLUS payed sick leave whenever you are actually sick!
We don´t have socialism in Germany. What we have is social capitalism ( soziale Marktwirtschaft ) and that is far away of socialism 🙂 So even if the people in the US use this term it´s completely wrong. But hey, people in the US called Berny Sanders a communist, in the rest of the world he would be considered a decent middle ground conservative
Wow, I'm going to steal your comment and re-use it! By the way, I see that there is a scam answer below that is pretending to be hayley - I assume you have figured that out but thought I'd let you know anyway.
Uhm... Why do US Americans always think about Germany as a Socialist Country? Don't you know the different between Socialism and being Social? Here in Germany we are social and solidaric to each other. Has nothing to do with Socialism!
The USA is the country of maximum freedom (to take advantage of employees). It's literally the best place on earth (if you are a big employer). That's why they go on TV and preach it to the masses.
I love the self-service check-outs that popped up at many German supermarkets … but there's ONE downside to them: If you have something with alcohol in it (even chocolate pralines), you have to wait until someone from the store shows up and confirms that you are an adult, because the thing wouldn't allow you to pay until this got checked. So the "do your purchases without having to deal with people" isn't working as soon as you got some alcohol …
which is so random cause even at the cigarette automates the thing recognizes from your debit card that you are over 16. why don't they just do the same thing with the self check outs?
@@Xaen82 yeah but also at the cigarette thing you can pay (or used to at least) with cash but you have to put in your debit card at least shortly for age conformation.
@@Xaen82 Nope. You can't. It's debit card only at all the supermarkets I attend … Lidl, Netto, Marktkauf, Edeka … If you want to pay cash, you have to use a regular check out.
To talk about German socialism is a misuse of the word socialism. Socialism means all production and distribution facilities are owned by the state or collectively. That disappeared with the DDR. Germany is strictly a capitalistic country, with social programs. Social legislation started in Prussia, pushed by Otto von Bismark, an strong enemy of socialism. Health and fire insurances, pension funds and so on were introduced, also as a way to ward of socialism.
In the netherlands most supermarkerts have self checkouts germany will follow i can promis you no people involved so less costs and we know that we can be checked out randomly we dont dare to try to steal. It is based on being honest
It really is. I once had some spices that I forgot to scan. They were somehow buried under my jacket or bag in the cart so I just didnt see them and didnt even realise they were still missing. So when I realised I went right back in to pay for them of course. But I know that there are a lot of people who wouldnt have gone back.
@@grandmak. Not at any grocery stores in my neighbourhood. I guess it's also a space problem, because trained cashiers are a million times faster than a customer at a self-checkout, so you need more space for self-checkouts than for regular checkouts. And because cashiers are so fast here, they don't need that many in the first place, so self-checkouts don't decrease personnel costs as much as in the US - especially because you still need someone who watches over the self-checkouts.
If you pay your employees well they will (mostly) make the impossible possible. THEY know what to do and how to do it. The "management " can't do it by themselves. Simple as that.
There's a big problem with how workers are treated by the company and I think it speaks volumes that workers depend on customer's generosity if their bosses aren't willing to pay a fair wage. It just bothers me as much as calling a worker that would work accordingly to what's agreed upon by their contract (not more and not less) a quiet quitter. It's time that US-citizens demand their rights without being told that wanting to be able to actually live from one's income is leading a country to socialism. I am always astonished that a society who wants to be viewed as superior and progressive got so terribly stuck in ideologies from the cold war as soon as worker's rights are being demanded.
We too do have self-check outs in the Spar market in our Austrian town. There is always an employee in charge, but only to help you with the system AND to unlock it when you are buying alcohol- the check out locks with alcoholic beverages, so minors can’t buy them.
We love you too Hayley (rants and all). Hayley spittin' facts! Unfortunately the future of the ordinary citizen of the USA is grim and getting worse, with absolutely no cause for optimism long term. Glad you have escaped, and have a great life in Germany, but sad that so many other wonderful people in the US don't have that option. Stay strong. Cheers!
The sad thing about it is that there are so many very poor, exploited people (a majority now I think) in the US. And what is worse is that the same people are so indoctrinated ("brainwashed", yes) that they think it is how it is supposed to be. I find it utterly utterly sad. Those poor souls.
liberal ... not any more democracy ... may be a little bit, but not really. The government is not doing this what the majority of people want. So, no it is not.
For forty years we've had this ideology in the US that government should be nice to the job creators and that the job creators in turn will then give everyone else a piece of the pie by hiring more workers and creating more jobs. Of course this has never worked in practice. Not only are the CEO's greedy for themselves however when you press them many of them will also claimed that they have a fiduciary responsibility that maximize shareholder value. How do you do this? Make a company is lien as possible so that you can extract as much wealth as possible. I personally don't mind tipping if the tip is extra however the tip was never intended to be a replacement for a livable wage.
Of course the corporations can afford to pay a decent salary. McDonalds tried to underpay their employees in Denmark, but an united system of unions worked together, and basically forced McDonalds to sign an agreement and pay their employees a reasonable wage. And McDonalds in Denmark is still making money and profit.
Tipping,as Hayley points out,is just a way for the employers and coorporations to flee their employer responsibility and push the burden on the rest of the population..a good point you made here Hayley,and a very true one. I think tipping is demeaning in the form it is applied in the US..its not about appreciation for a job well done,its for their utter survival. Its not right,its not humane.
Americans do not only tend to get "socialism" wrong but they often confuse "capitalism" and "market economy". Capitalism is the possibility to make money without working through ownership of the means of production, i.e. factories and farms or just via interest on money. Market economy is when anyone can offer goods or services for sale at the price they choose. They often coexist but describe different things. Many countries have mixed systems. Most liberal democacies with market economy allow the state to own certain companies. Often to protect the people from otherwise unhealthy monopolies. The mainly socialist country China has since Deng Xiaoping allowed private enterprises but with strict control. Xi Jinping is now reigning in those companies in a transformation back to a fully socialist dictatorship.
REWE has it here in Leonberg, Germany. But 9 out of 10 checkouts here are conventional and just one is a self checkout point. They have it for sure in Munich, too. But nobody would come up with the idea to expect money for nothing. That's just known to be a song from the "dire straits".
I 100000% agree with you! It also infuriates me. Why they need tips to do what they're getting paid to do but yet we did the work and all they did was stand there? make it make sense. you cant because it dont!
I remeber seeing an interview with some rich benevolent American and he got it just right he said' money is like water if it's evenly distributed it flows ,but when it's not distributed it becomes stagnant and starts to stink'it's very true .I'm not really a fan of the USA,but I think many of the probkems are just caused by ignorance
Underpaying people in the US makes them beggars. This is humiliating the workers and the customers. The employer has to pay their employees for delivering a good service because they work and stand in for the corporation they work for.
A few years ago, a company tried to recruit me. They were extolling the assets and properties and so on of the company in question. Two sentences later, it appeared I would be working on commission only. Maybe they were not allowed to deviate from their script, maybe they believed in their s&%t, but when I told them that I did not care how rich the company was, that all I needed was the right wage, I was met with complete bafflement.
Thanks, Hayley, agreed. This ties in with the TikTok trend of "Americans living abroad, tell me when you first noticed how America really messed you up" as well as the Second Thought videos on Why all other countries treat their people better than the USA. BOTH series tie in perfectly with your rant.
Self-checkouts are very common here in Switzerland. You can even scan your items with an app on your phone whilst you are buying and pay directly with the app before leaving the store. However, there are sometimes random checks at the exits. About every 50th time or so, you get stopped, and your purchases are checked. When the self-checkout system started to become common practice, about 10 years ago, random checks were performed more regularly (perhaps every 20th time), but have become more seldom over time. Still, I would never consider tipping the bag checker (or the cashier who makes about 5000 a month if working full time - 40hs per week).
I do use those self checkouts for one single reason: No waiting line. Everywhere else: Waiting line. If the self-checkout would be full I'd use the classical cashier line, but it never is, wasting less time done. Marktkauf and Obi around here installed them, Marktkauf has five classical cashier lines, Obi has three. Still a time saver.
Germany is a liberal democracy with a market economy, just like the USA. The main difference is that Germany is a welfare state meaning that the Germans, like every other European democracy have decided that they insure each other against social misfortune via the state. In a Socialistic state, the state owns the means of production, i.e. factories and farms. Socialist states typically also are dictatorships.
I agree with you 100%, Hayley. It's about time the minimum wage was raised in the US but as the Republicans are blocking every effort to support the lower and middle class ( even sunsetting social security and healthcare ) and instead plan to cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires as well as corporations there is no help in sight. To make matters worse you have one of the most horrible governors in Florida who aims at the presidency. Speaking of presidents the former guy didn't pay any taxes for some years but will hopefully be indicted for that. What I find so disgusting is that Republicans keep talking about 'the American dream' that everybody can achieve who tries hard enough. That is a lie as we can see. It's beyond sad that employees have to beg for tips in order to feed their children.
The average value of income is not a good quantity for the U.S., because the distribution is not unimodal. There's at least a two classes society in the U.S., basically rich and poor, since the middle classe erodes. You're completely right about the consequences of pure capitalism: Capitalism generates poor people except some very small group of very rich people, and the poor people "fall out of the market;" they have no voice, and the whole picture of society in the U.S. suffers from so-called "survivorship bias." Did U.S. people learn something from the game "Monopoly?" I'm not quite sure...
We are capitalists as well. In parts of the life with "uncomfortable consequnces" for parts of the population. And yes we have mandatory social insurances, labour laws and a mandatory insurance for retirement fees, Since the 1980ies. Our imperial times and chancler Otto von Bismark pusht these. Implemented when Doc Hollidy and the Earps had their shhotout with the Clantons at the OK Coral. ;-)
Why, particularly the Republican, get so animated about issues like BLM or wokeness when the US's major failing, like wealth inequality or gun control barely register?
I was a dog owner for a long time so I sometimes stumble over one of these dog rescue channels. And by reading the comments ( "love your work" aso ) I always wonder why nobody asks " why is that so ?. Why do private organisations have to do government work ? Here in middle europe you would barely ever in your life see a dog in need on the streets
The difference between the US and Germany is that self-scanning was introduced in the US to save money for the cashier. In Germany they do self-scans because there is no one who wants to work as a cashier! We have a huge labor shortage here and it's not that companies have big problems finding good staff, but rather big problems finding staff at all! And if there is no one who can sit at the checkout, what else is left to do but scan it yourself?
There is this nice little Vietnamese restaurant in Seattle that I go to every time im in the city. During Covid they set up screens in the restaurant for you to place your order. Ok no problem I'll do the work.. But when I was there last month they seem to have changed something in the system and you're now unable to finish placing your order if you don't select a tip... I was like.. Tip you for what??? All you do is hand me the bag.
No way I'm tipping at a UPS store or Walmart. Also, in general I think it's better to have profit sharing as part of the pay package. This could get rid of tipping altogether and could be a win - win. And good point on the corporations asking for donations for things like the Ronald McDonald House (at McDonalds drive throughs).
I think part of the problem with the minimum wage in the USA is, that it gets set to certain amount and that's it. For decades and decades, that number might not change, but inflation still happens. I think the 7.5$ or whatever it is right now was set during Jimmi Carter. But that was half a century ago and I'm sure, that half a century ago, 7.5$ wasn't so bad in the 70s, but with half a century of inflation, that's not really worth much anymore. That's why in Germany, there is a permanent council, that determines on a yearly basis a new minimum wage, based on inflation and growth of productivity of hourly work. And the same story will probably just repeat in the USA. Maybe the next adjustment of the minimum wage will set it 12 or 15$, which wouldn't be so bad for the minimum wage. But if it's going to be the same 50 years from now, that probably won't be enough to afford the most basic expenses. EDIT I just thought, that the US fed as well as the ECB aspire an annual inflation rate of 2% I just typed that into my calculator and over 50 years, that would be a cumulative inflation of 63.5%, or in other words, based on what western central banks typically aspire to, 70s 7.5$ would be in 2020s dollars 20.6$, based on that inflation rate as a minimum wage. Now, that is not the actual inflation rate and I didn't look up the exact year the minimum wage was change the last time, but it is safe to assume, that the real average annual inflation rate is slightly above that. So, if the minimum wage had been inflation adjusted every year since the last change, it wouldn't be far off to say, that the minimum wage the USA would have now were above 20$ and that would just give you the exact purchasing power the minimum wage gave you in the USA during Carters presidency.
Germany is not a socialist country. The German economy is based on market economy and capitalism. I am surprised that someone who has lived in Germany for so many years does not know this.
Calling Germany socialist is the most American thing ever
So true, they call everything left of the Republican Party socialist and communist, even Marxist, because they don't know what those terms mean.
it's a lot more socialist than the US, but, no. By and large, German workers do not own the means of production.
And Hayley is absolutely certain to trigger people on both sides of the pond with that claim. 🤣
But we are. Not the bad national socialist but socialist. Maybe social capitalists is fitting more.
@@tobiasharnisch4155 bro wtf, please do some research
the most astonishing thing is what US Americans define as socialist. In Germany we don't have socialism.
Genau! Too many people using words they don't understand.
Soziale Marktwirtschaft
In Germany we have socalism.
Whoever does not recognise this is blind!
@@matthiasgrothe1301 So die Firmen gehören dem Staat? Alles Volkseigentum?
@@martyh360 Theoretisch, Ja!
Allerdings habe ich das Gefühl dass in den letzten Jahrzehnten das Soziale immer kleiner geschrieben wird.
Tipping should be a reward for a good job done, not a necessity to cover the owners ass because they don't want to pay their employees a decent wage (not a living wage, but enough for a comfortable life with few worries and even, shocker, the chance for a vacation).
Excusez-moi? Vacations? So that the poor fellows get to see that there are countries in which things run a lot more justly? No way!
If word went around, people would actually begin to wake up to the nonsense constantly fed to them and these moneybags couldn't pit people against one another any more...
Sorry for the sarcasm, but I just couldn't help it. Besides, the devil always dumps onto the biggest heap.
@@Robidu1973 The sarcasm is actually appreciated. So you have the same saying as we have in Slovenia "The Devil always shits on a pile." . It's a surprise how true that can be.
I was listening to a radio programme about working hours, retirement age etc. Years ago people were predicting the consequences of automation in manufacturing and other industries. They thought that by the year 2000 people would be working a 20 hour week and retiring at 45, because so much work would be done by machines rather than people. They failed to take into account the greed of the employers. Any benefits go to the top bosses, the rich get richer. I'm from UK where they have actually raised retirement ages rather than reduce them.
So you know why billionaires are billionaires... and why we, as people with an ethically view of the world, are not.
Haley wasn't correct about Publix not donating money to charities. United Way they donated $25 million. You look at another charity called March of Dimes and Publix has donated around $80 million over the 27 years they have been donating. Publix donates to Special Olympics, Alleviating Hunger, Children Miracle Network Hospitals, Tools for Back to School,Feeding More Together, and Feeding America. During the pandemic Publix bought 150,000 lbs (about 68,038 kg) of produce and 43,000 gallons ( this is about 162,772 liters) of milk from farmers that were forced to throw food away during the beginning of the pandemic. Publix turned around and donated that food to Feeding America.
The hamster wheel only looks like a career ladder from the inside.
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Germany is not socialism. It's social market economy.
I've seen a lot of memes about the increase of tipping requests in the US but I not aware that even the self-check out line is tip based....that's nuts
I find it rather sad. Imagine having to beg for tips at your workplace !
@grandmak. it is, do get me wrong.but it seems to be an easy way out for employers
@@chkoha6462 yes, and that is the sad part.
It is not tip based but I was shocked to see that there was a woman actually asking for tips
@@HayleyAlexis Perhaps you could have askd her to carry your bag to the car. Then she would be entitled to a tip.
This was no "Rant"! It was the honest truth! Simply facts! Well done, Hayley! 👍
Clearly she is a MAGA cultist since she takes over their language
This video should go viral in the US 🤞👌
Hopefully not!
@@KC_Kane Why shouldn’t it? It could at least change a few opinions. And maybe there would be a less republican votes
@@katrinrose3524 exactly that is what hopefully will not happen! We don’t need socialism in the states. You make it they take it!
@@KC_Kane and if u would be informed, in Germany our type of government is parliamentary democracy and NOT socialism! Our politicians are just not as corrupt as yours and we have a safety net for poor and sick people. Just imagine going to a doctor when u are concerned about your health or are actually really sick and not get bankrupt and instead are able to stay at home and get rest. 😉
Girl you got me LIT!!!!
In the USA, this "tips" thing is out of hand.WHY ASK CUSTOMERS TO GIVE EXTRA $ FOR EMPLOYEES TO DO THEIR JOB?!?!? I went to a Thai restaurant last night for take out. I ordered and paid in advance, leaving a tip. I was told 20 minutes, so I left and came back after 20 minutes, then had to wait another 20!!!! I will ONLY tip AFTER service has been completed from now on. Any tip option will be ignored FROM NOW ON!!!
I tip my hair stylist 100% and she deserves it. These other clowns can ask their boss for a raise!
Unbelievable! Tipping like that is ridiculous! If I’m in a restaurant, I’ll tip…but not in a store like Walmart and UPS.
An old story: there are three people, a rich guy, a middle-class guy and a poor guy. There's also a plate with ten cookies.
The rich guy takes nine of of the cookies, then turns to the middle-class guy and says: "Watch the poor guy... he's going to steal your cookie!"
In the mid 1970's, when I got my first (part-time) job, at age 16, working as a "bag-boy", at the, then biggest, supermarket chain in The Netherlands I got told that I was not allowed to accept tips under any circumstance....
Yes, we also have self-check-outs here where I live (even new shopping carts with tablets on them - completely whacked out). And there's always someone present to keep an eye on the customers. Not seen somebody asking for tips, though. IMHO if multi-million Dollar corporations can't afford to pay their workers fairly, because they "can't" - then their companies shouldn't be in business!
What means „whacked out“?
Actually you cannot tip a cashier in Germany, he is immediately accused of stealing from the cass.
Whenever I go through self-check-out I am glad that there is still somebody there to help me when I mess up the process. And I do need that help quite often. But tipping?!?! I just paid for my groceries. That should be enough to pay their employees.
@hayley alexis dating fake!
Self check out in Germany-> yes, some stores have these cash register systems, usually someone is nearby to explain the system;) There is now even a new system via app, which you can use to scan the products when you put them in the trolley and then just click on: pay now.
"Donation boxes": usually these are actually intended for special campaigns = for example: refugee aid, children's emergency aid, etc. and often the companies end up donating the same amount that the customers donated.
And only in the case of personal service = hairdresser, restaurant, beautician, etc. there may be a "tip box", often not visible to the customer or yes, near the cash register if the shop has a permanent cashier, and you , would like to give a tip to your "personal helper".
3:28 This "you need a tip to get a normal wage" cultur is soooooo screwed. I hated that in the states.
The whole donation thing is something I'm currently thinking a lot about. especially due to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. I honestly just don't get,that the nonprofit organizations ask zivils to donate money so they can BUY the stuff the people need from the big ass multimillion companys. Don't get me wrong, I see that there are people in need and I'm glad there are others who help them. BUT I don't get,y those companies don't just donate the stuff the people need and sell them instead. and I don't get,y nobody speaks about it. and it's not just now with the earthquake but the same with any other crisis around the world. never read about for example Nestlé donated 10 big ass planes full of water and food nor any pharmaceutical company donating shit loads of medicine.
Here in the Netherlands, a large fundraising campaign has also started via giro 555. The donated money alone is intended for assistance in that specific disaster. Even if help may be needed much more elsewhere at that moment. In other words, if the money is not used up completely, it will remain in the account and will not go to another charity. I prefer to donate to doctors without borders who provide help in places where it is needed and therefore also in Turkeye.
In Germany the law about donation actually seems very weird to me. If you as a company want to donate something (for example stock you would no longer need) - you have to pay taxes which are similar to as if you were selling it full price.
I am not 100% familiar with specifics of the law, but I heard many times in my company how sad it is that destroying the products is more profitable than just donating them and helping someone
There is a big Edeka next to my office with a self check out. There is always an employer not only to look after thiefs but also to help customers if something doesn't work or if the customer can't find the bread from the "bakery section" or if they want to buy alcohol and the employer has to check an ID of the customer
Not very common though, unlike in Denmark.
@@martinriexinger5824 but it’s getting more and more common, at least in my town
THAT HEADSCRATCH! You made my day, Hayley. 😂🤣
I was shocked.... I always am. Luckily with the bald head I have easy access now
Sorry about the quality yall... I don't know what happened during the uploading process :( 720p Hayley is better than no Hayley!
No problem. We are not here for picture quality but for text quality, and that is perfect like always. Thanks for that!
If you guys in the U.S. don't start to pay decent wages soon, everything will go down the drain pretty quickly. This is such a sick system, sorry to say. Our businesses, companies and entrepreneurships in Europe/Germany do make money too, tons of money, depending on the type of business, even with all the regulations like worker's rights, good salaries, affordable health care, paid sick, parental and vacation leave, in place. This, FYI, is NOT socialism! Yes, socialism existed way back in the GDR, but that was a completely different story. Do not, never ever, mistake our economic and political system for socialism. It IS not!
But the government doesn’t allow stores to choose their own hours to be open. Many businesses have to be closed on Sunday. What would you call that?
@@TheaLightweaver That workers are very well taken care of and that it is ensured they have enough free time for themselves. Which applies, of course, also to the shopowners or companies running them. More quality family time for them all.
I honestly don't know where to start or what I want to say in response....but millions of people need to understand this!!!
Socialism: The democratic and public ownership of means of production. Not even China is socialist!
Germany doesn’t do that. Germany is as capitalist as the US. The difference is that in DE ,the people have a bit more leverage in regards to their government.
Sooo many things to say…I totally agree first of all! While these millionaires are paying 1/6 of the taxes that most of us pay, and why? Because they have all the money to pay all the tax/legal professionals to find the deductions and if they are caught “bending the rules”🙄, those same legal/tax professionals can get them out of it or keep the IRS away for years! Most Americans can barely pay to have their taxes done!!! And most certainly can’t afford to pay a legal team for protection!
I’m sick to death of the workings of this country. It’s absurd. I’m 56, widowed, and work 2 jobs. And I can barely scrape by! And believe me, I am very aware there are sooooo many people who don’t even have what I have. But I do not understand it!! One of the wealthiest most powerful countries in the world and we have people who are struggling to pay for food & medicine at the age of 77 and they are still having to work….It blows my mind. Can’t we figure some other way?
What do you expect from a country that has legalized bribing politicians in 2001?
Trump openly said, that he pays politicians to do what he wants.
Making it public doesn't make it better - it's still bribing.
That is so sad. Republicans want to defund or even get rid of the IRS - guess why ? It's a shame that working conditions and salary are so bad in the USA while most politicians are super wealthy and some even millionaires. They obviously don't care.
@@peter_meyer I totally agree.
Vote for someone willing to create change!
@@alexandergutfeldt1144 if only there was someone
If we're not making much, we're un-American if we don't give away what few dollars we have. I'm paying for groceries with food stamps and I still get asked if I want to round-up or donate a suggested dollar amount. WTF?
german... "der ungezügelte Kapitalismus" ... in english ... "unbridled capitalism" (microsoft translator) ... i think, that you are not! un-american... no German would think that way )
Good video! 👍
The other problem with this "tipping economy" is: what about health care and pensions? You will get loads of elderly people standing outside those stores with cups saying "tips needed, I used to work here"...
Minimum wage is not a livable one in the US.
Biden has promised to raise the minimum wage but that is one of the things the Republicans oppose and blocked.
It was never supposed to be a liveable income. It was supposed to be a job where highschoolers could earn some money. Mommy and daddy are still supporting these kids.
@@jessicaely2521 That is a fucking lie. People worked minimum wage jobs for years who weren't just high schoolers. That's bullshit nonsense that it was never meant to be liveable income.
Hey Hayley :) I just read a Book "Utopia for Realists: And how we can get there" from Rutger Bregman. He is a Dutch journalist, so the book is fact-based and very well researched. You quickly realize that, for example, the end of poverty is not so unrealistic. I really enjoyed reading the book and dreaming a little of a better world. So i can highly recommend the book to you and everyone else!
Actually we do have self-checkout cash registered at some Kaufland, Edeka, or Rewe stores. And I see those donations things as well. They are usually like "say 'aufrunden bitte' to donate for ..."
And we have crappy people here as well. Once I was hanging out next to a river with my husband and a friend and there was this man on his boat. Well, at one point that man came out and locked the gate that lead to the entrance of his boat and saying something like "damit das Fußvolk draußen bleibt" ("so the simple folk stays out"). I think all these people should be more grateful cause where would they be without the "simple people" who produce and sell them the food they eat every day, the nurses who help them when they are sick, the daycare workers who take care of their children while they work in their "upper class" jobs etc. And if they tell others "please donate ..." they should be generous enough to donate as well.
But that’s for social projects, not tips. And it’s never more than 90 cents.
@@claudiakarl7888 I know but she was talking about those in the video as well.
The USA is the opposite of a steampunk society: Technics of 21st century, society of the 19th century.
So, in American supermarkets, customers get their goods bagged at the checkout without having to tip, but if you bag yourself, are you expected to give someone extra money? Is this the American future?
It's reminiscent of Americans who get upset that restaurants in Europe (not just Germany) don't have free water, but accept that in the US they have to tip 20% more.
I'm with you 100%. The same companies have great websites on how they treat their employees fairly
I love you so much Hayley! You are one of the few educated and not indoctrinated Americans I know! And you are beautiful!! ❤❤❤
I wonder if she had that ideas before living in Germany or if it is a “German indoctrination” 😂 😂
@@alonsoxoraique Every intelligent person has that ideas, even in the US. No need for indoctrination, but for education.
@@alonsoxoraique It's a sign of intelligence to realize and accept that you have been lied to! Your arrogance is so typical for the kind of American that is hated all over the world and you probably haven't even left your state once! Incredibly stupid and uneducated, but very proud of it and int he end America is the sh.thole that your Orang Utan talked about, as even many African states have a better social system than you have! Nobody who has ever been to the US gets where your incredible entitlement comes from?!?! Not very much there to be sooo proud of!!!
@@UlliStein From which follows that someone who does NOT share these ideas is not intelligent. Which means there a a lot of Mensa-members and PhD-holders that are just plain stupid, I guess.
Not long ago, I watched a TV Show, called Undercover Boss. The ( secret) Boss met his Employees at the End, offered them Trips, Promotions, etc. I thought by myself, why Not Just a fair wage for everybody?
Why? Because it's a tv-show! Are you German?
Ja, aus Baden Württemberg
WOW Hayley!!!, I haven't been down there in years but FLORIDA IS EVEN MORE NUTS THAN ON Television!!!!!! I've not seen such where I currently live but I "shop" absolutely as little as possible and only tip when good service has been rendered .....(or they include it in the bill)
LOL. You aren't a horrible person. You did the only right thing
I honestly can't imagine the mailmen (?) or whatever the position is called would place a tipping box there if they got a fair wage. It's either because it's really lacking or it was the idea of the management in the first place.
Now, in theory it would be interesting to give the company a call asking what's up with that madness and why they think that's necessary, but you also know that the person handling customer calls and mail gets most likely paid even less than the people in the shop and has zero influence on its operation.
They aren't paid a fair wage. People take these jobs because it's a government organization, so you get damn good health insurance. When you retire you are getting more money than when you worked. Government agencies have a very good pension plan. My grandpa retired from the Post Office. He made I think $10 an hour. His take home pay was I think $21,000. Sure back in 1990 this was darn good pay for no education. When he retired he was had $80,000 a year coming into his pocket. In the 90's you needed to make $40,000 a year to live a good life.
Okay.. I got a question: If I’m doing all the work... why in the hell would I give someone else a tip? 😂
The issue is, that the exploited worker has been convinced that their multi million pound boss not paying an adequate tax is somehow good for them. Those exploited workers are not going out and voting for Bernie, the AOC or the Warren, they are going out and voting for Trump, McCarthy or MTG.
The american definition of socialism is "government do thing"
LMAO... that is true... or the government takes everything
Totally agree, and funny that most of these Corporations/companies do business worldwide, and all of a sudden, it works - even with better pay, 28 days payed vacation PLUS 10 days payed public holidays PLUS payed sick leave whenever you are actually sick!
We don´t have socialism in Germany. What we have is social capitalism ( soziale Marktwirtschaft ) and that is far away of socialism 🙂
So even if the people in the US use this term it´s completely wrong.
But hey, people in the US called Berny Sanders a communist, in the rest of the world he would be considered a decent middle ground conservative
These corporations don't offer you a job but they rent you a panhandling site.
Wow, I'm going to steal your comment and re-use it! By the way, I see that there is a scam answer below that is pretending to be hayley - I assume you have figured that out but thought I'd let you know anyway.
The sad part is that the „poor“ people are so brainwashed to defend a system keeping them poor. And making the rich richer.
Uhm... Why do US Americans always think about Germany as a Socialist Country? Don't you know the different between Socialism and being Social? Here in Germany we are social and solidaric to each other. Has nothing to do with Socialism!
The USA is the country of maximum freedom (to take advantage of employees). It's literally the best place on earth (if you are a big employer). That's why they go on TV and preach it to the masses.
I couldn't have put it better myself! Aka. Du sprichst mir aus der Seele!
I feel your disbelief and frustration re the tips! You speak the words we're all thinking!
I Love your way of expressing your opinion.
Danke!
I love the self-service check-outs that popped up at many German supermarkets … but there's ONE downside to them: If you have something with alcohol in it (even chocolate pralines), you have to wait until someone from the store shows up and confirms that you are an adult, because the thing wouldn't allow you to pay until this got checked. So the "do your purchases without having to deal with people" isn't working as soon as you got some alcohol …
which is so random cause even at the cigarette automates the thing recognizes from your debit card that you are over 16. why don't they just do the same thing with the self check outs?
@@meladversity because you can pay in bar
@@Xaen82 yeah but also at the cigarette thing you can pay (or used to at least) with cash but you have to put in your debit card at least shortly for age conformation.
@@Xaen82 Nope. You can't. It's debit card only at all the supermarkets I attend … Lidl, Netto, Marktkauf, Edeka … If you want to pay cash, you have to use a regular check out.
Yes. I love them too. I've seen them mostly at Rewe's, Globus, Carrefour and Geant.
To talk about German socialism is a misuse of the word socialism. Socialism means all production and distribution facilities are owned by the state or collectively. That disappeared with the DDR.
Germany is strictly a capitalistic country, with social programs.
Social legislation started in Prussia, pushed by Otto von Bismark, an strong enemy of socialism.
Health and fire insurances, pension funds and so on were introduced, also as a way to ward of socialism.
In the netherlands most supermarkerts have self checkouts germany will follow i can promis you no people involved so less costs and we know that we can be checked out randomly we dont dare to try to steal. It is based on being honest
It really is. I once had some spices that I forgot to scan. They were somehow buried under my jacket or bag in the cart so I just didnt see them and didnt even realise they were still missing. So when I realised I went right back in to pay for them of course. But I know that there are a lot of people who wouldnt have gone back.
There are already self check outs in Germany, not only at IKEA but also in grocery stores.
@@grandmak. Not at any grocery stores in my neighbourhood. I guess it's also a space problem, because trained cashiers are a million times faster than a customer at a self-checkout, so you need more space for self-checkouts than for regular checkouts. And because cashiers are so fast here, they don't need that many in the first place, so self-checkouts don't decrease personnel costs as much as in the US - especially because you still need someone who watches over the self-checkouts.
@@faultier1158 Every Kaufland in my area has them.
@@grandmak. Here at Rossmann, Rewe, Kaufland
I never got the tipping thing when I was staying in the US 🇺🇸
Never seen it here in Switzerland at the self scan service desk.
If you pay your employees well they will (mostly) make the impossible possible.
THEY know what to do and how to do it.
The "management " can't do it by themselves.
Simple as that.
You brought up some really good points.
There's a big problem with how workers are treated by the company and I think it speaks volumes that workers depend on customer's generosity if their bosses aren't willing to pay a fair wage. It just bothers me as much as calling a worker that would work accordingly to what's agreed upon by their contract (not more and not less) a quiet quitter. It's time that US-citizens demand their rights without being told that wanting to be able to actually live from one's income is leading a country to socialism. I am always astonished that a society who wants to be viewed as superior and progressive got so terribly stuck in ideologies from the cold war as soon as worker's rights are being demanded.
We too do have self-check outs in the Spar market in our Austrian town. There is always an employee in charge, but only to help you with the system AND to unlock it when you are buying alcohol- the check out locks with alcoholic beverages, so minors can’t buy them.
100% agree!
stop calling it tipping, in Britain we tip if we've had a good experience. in America it's a go fund me system
We love you too Hayley (rants and all). Hayley spittin' facts! Unfortunately the future of the ordinary citizen of the USA is grim and getting worse, with absolutely no cause for optimism long term. Glad you have escaped, and have a great life in Germany, but sad that so many other wonderful people in the US don't have that option. Stay strong. Cheers!
The sad thing about it is that there are so many very poor, exploited people (a majority now I think) in the US. And what is worse is that the same people are so indoctrinated ("brainwashed", yes) that they think it is how it is supposed to be. I find it utterly utterly sad. Those poor souls.
I would consider Germany a liberal democracy.
liberal ... not any more
democracy ... may be a little bit, but not really. The government is not doing this what the majority of people want. So, no it is not.
I would describe it as a social democracy but that isn't the "perfect" description
For forty years we've had this ideology in the US that government should be nice to the job creators and that the job creators in turn will then give everyone else a piece of the pie by hiring more workers and creating more jobs. Of course this has never worked in practice. Not only are the CEO's greedy for themselves however when you press them many of them will also claimed that they have a fiduciary responsibility that maximize shareholder value. How do you do this? Make a company is lien as possible so that you can extract as much wealth as possible. I personally don't mind tipping if the tip is extra however the tip was never intended to be a replacement for a livable wage.
Thanx Haley, they want no conversation, no Questions, we have to do their Job. There is one thing they need. Our Money for Nothing.
@hayley alexis dating How?
Of course the corporations can afford to pay a decent salary.
McDonalds tried to underpay their employees in Denmark, but an united system of unions worked together, and basically forced McDonalds to sign an agreement and pay their employees a reasonable wage.
And McDonalds in Denmark is still making money and profit.
Well Hayley, another great video!😊❤️👍💐 keep going and keep going strong! 💪💪💪
Tipping,as Hayley points out,is just a way for the employers and coorporations to flee their employer responsibility and push the burden on the rest of the population..a good point you made here Hayley,and a very true one. I think tipping is demeaning in the form it is applied in the US..its not about appreciation for a job well done,its for their utter survival. Its not right,its not humane.
Fun question: If we are socialist, then why is our communist party never part of the government ?
Americans do not only tend to get "socialism" wrong but they often confuse "capitalism" and "market economy".
Capitalism is the possibility to make money without working through ownership of the means of production, i.e. factories and farms or just via interest on money. Market economy is when anyone can offer goods or services for sale at the price they choose. They often coexist but describe different things.
Many countries have mixed systems. Most liberal democacies with market economy allow the state to own certain companies. Often to protect the people from otherwise unhealthy monopolies.
The mainly socialist country China has since Deng Xiaoping allowed private enterprises but with strict control. Xi Jinping is now reigning in those companies in a transformation back to a fully socialist dictatorship.
REWE has it here in Leonberg, Germany.
But 9 out of 10 checkouts here are conventional and just one is a self checkout point.
They have it for sure in Munich, too.
But nobody would come up with the idea to expect money for nothing.
That's just known to be a song from the "dire straits".
Profits are privatized, losses are socialized.
Go tell your bank "he's what I earn goes into MY pockets, what I lose YOU have to pay for too"
True. Hope the right people listen.
I 100000% agree with you! It also infuriates me. Why they need tips to do what they're getting paid to do but yet we did the work and all they did was stand there? make it make sense. you cant because it dont!
I remeber seeing an interview with some rich benevolent American and he got it just right he said' money is like water if it's evenly distributed it flows ,but when it's not distributed it becomes stagnant and starts to stink'it's very true .I'm not really a fan of the USA,but I think many of the probkems are just caused by ignorance
Underpaying people in the US makes them beggars. This is humiliating the workers and the customers. The employer has to pay their employees for delivering a good service because they work and stand in for the corporation they work for.
A few years ago, a company tried to recruit me. They were extolling the assets and properties and so on of the company in question. Two sentences later, it appeared I would be working on commission only. Maybe they were not allowed to deviate from their script, maybe they believed in their s&%t, but when I told them that I did not care how rich the company was, that all I needed was the right wage, I was met with complete bafflement.
Thanks, Hayley, agreed. This ties in with the TikTok trend of "Americans living abroad, tell me when you first noticed how America really messed you up" as well as the Second Thought videos on Why all other countries treat their people better than the USA. BOTH series tie in perfectly with your rant.
Self-checkouts are very common here in Switzerland. You can even scan your items with an app on your phone whilst you are buying and pay directly with the app before leaving the store. However, there are sometimes random checks at the exits. About every 50th time or so, you get stopped, and your purchases are checked.
When the self-checkout system started to become common practice, about 10 years ago, random checks were performed more regularly (perhaps every 20th time), but have become more seldom over time.
Still, I would never consider tipping the bag checker (or the cashier who makes about 5000 a month if working full time - 40hs per week).
I do use those self checkouts for one single reason: No waiting line. Everywhere else: Waiting line. If the self-checkout would be full I'd use the classical cashier line, but it never is, wasting less time done. Marktkauf and Obi around here installed them, Marktkauf has five classical cashier lines, Obi has three. Still a time saver.
I fully agree with your opinions regarding this!
Germany is a liberal democracy with a market economy, just like the USA. The main difference is that Germany is a welfare state meaning that the Germans, like every other European democracy have decided that they insure each other against social misfortune via the state.
In a Socialistic state, the state owns the means of production, i.e. factories and farms. Socialist states typically also are dictatorships.
It's only a matter of time until Walmart will demand money from the exit watchers for the privilege to beg on their premises.
Girl it's a shitshow.... I'll stay here in Stuttgart 😉
I agree with you 100%, Hayley. It's about time the minimum wage was raised in the US but as the Republicans are blocking every effort to support the lower and middle class ( even sunsetting social security and healthcare ) and instead plan to cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires as well as corporations there is no help in sight. To make matters worse you have one of the most horrible governors in Florida who aims at the presidency. Speaking of presidents the former guy didn't pay any taxes for some years but will hopefully be indicted for that.
What I find so disgusting is that Republicans keep talking about 'the American dream' that everybody can achieve who tries hard enough. That is a lie as we can see. It's beyond sad that employees have to beg for tips in order to feed their children.
Wow! Great vid! One of your best I've seen so far.
The average value of income is not a good quantity for the U.S., because the distribution is not unimodal. There's at least a two classes society in the U.S., basically rich and poor, since the middle classe erodes.
You're completely right about the consequences of pure capitalism: Capitalism generates poor people except some very small group of very rich people, and the poor people "fall out of the market;" they have no voice, and the whole picture of society in the U.S. suffers from so-called "survivorship bias."
Did U.S. people learn something from the game "Monopoly?" I'm not quite sure...
This was all spot on. Great video.
Instead of begging for tips the American workforce needs to put all their energy establishing unions.
Totally agree. Canada is not far behind. Tip culture is out of hand.
We are capitalists as well. In parts of the life with "uncomfortable consequnces" for parts of the population. And yes we have mandatory social insurances, labour laws and a mandatory insurance for retirement fees, Since the 1980ies. Our imperial times and chancler Otto von Bismark pusht these. Implemented when Doc Hollidy and the Earps had their shhotout with the Clantons at the OK Coral. ;-)
@Hayley du wirst eine waschechte Europäerin🤗🇩🇪😘
Why, particularly the Republican, get so animated about issues like BLM or wokeness when the US's major failing, like wealth inequality or gun control barely register?
they are making money from both :/
I was a dog owner for a long time so I sometimes stumble over one of these dog rescue channels. And by reading the comments ( "love your work" aso ) I always wonder why nobody asks " why is that so ?. Why do private organisations have to do government work ? Here in middle europe you would barely ever in your life see a dog in need on the streets
Well, have you ever been to Southern Europe, Sir?
@@elsebethviid5210 I was talking about middle europe
its all about the money
The difference between the US and Germany is that self-scanning was introduced in the US to save money for the cashier. In Germany they do self-scans because there is no one who wants to work as a cashier! We have a huge labor shortage here and it's not that companies have big problems finding good staff, but rather big problems finding staff at all! And if there is no one who can sit at the checkout, what else is left to do but scan it yourself?
There is this nice little Vietnamese restaurant in Seattle that I go to every time im in the city. During Covid they set up screens in the restaurant for you to place your order. Ok no problem I'll do the work.. But when I was there last month they seem to have changed something in the system and you're now unable to finish placing your order if you don't select a tip...
I was like.. Tip you for what??? All you do is hand me the bag.
No way I'm tipping at a UPS store or Walmart. Also, in general I think it's better to have profit sharing as part of the pay package. This could get rid of tipping altogether and could be a win - win.
And good point on the corporations asking for donations for things like the Ronald McDonald House (at McDonalds drive throughs).
I think part of the problem with the minimum wage in the USA is, that it gets set to certain amount and that's it. For decades and decades, that number might not change, but inflation still happens. I think the 7.5$ or whatever it is right now was set during Jimmi Carter. But that was half a century ago and I'm sure, that half a century ago, 7.5$ wasn't so bad in the 70s, but with half a century of inflation, that's not really worth much anymore. That's why in Germany, there is a permanent council, that determines on a yearly basis a new minimum wage, based on inflation and growth of productivity of hourly work. And the same story will probably just repeat in the USA. Maybe the next adjustment of the minimum wage will set it 12 or 15$, which wouldn't be so bad for the minimum wage. But if it's going to be the same 50 years from now, that probably won't be enough to afford the most basic expenses.
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I just thought, that the US fed as well as the ECB aspire an annual inflation rate of 2% I just typed that into my calculator and over 50 years, that would be a cumulative inflation of 63.5%, or in other words, based on what western central banks typically aspire to, 70s 7.5$ would be in 2020s dollars 20.6$, based on that inflation rate as a minimum wage. Now, that is not the actual inflation rate and I didn't look up the exact year the minimum wage was change the last time, but it is safe to assume, that the real average annual inflation rate is slightly above that. So, if the minimum wage had been inflation adjusted every year since the last change, it wouldn't be far off to say, that the minimum wage the USA would have now were above 20$ and that would just give you the exact purchasing power the minimum wage gave you in the USA during Carters presidency.
A business that can't afford to pay their employees a living wage should not be in business!
Germany is not a socialist country. The German economy is based on market economy and capitalism. I am surprised that someone who has lived in Germany for so many years does not know this.