I am from the UK. I lived in the USA for 7 years. While I was there, they would constantly come up to me and say things about the UK that were not true. When I corrected them and proved I was correct, they would get upset and say if I hate the USA so much, what are you doing here and then they would usually finish by saying I was jealous of their freedoms. Because I didn't have any in the UK and everybody knows that. It didn't bother me as I knew they were wankers.
I know everyone wants to speak to you even strangers I don't want to talk all the time its like you never have freedom to get away from ppl. I like very very small talk especially if I don't know the person.
Tyler, over the course of my 75 yrs to date, I've travelled extensively. I've lived and either worked or studied in the US (twice, totalling 10 yrs), E Africa (15 yrs), Canada (as a student for 6 yrs and later working for five), HK (4 yrs), EU countries (totalling 11 yrs), S Africa (school for four yrs), and England and Wales. Today, if I was entirely free to choose, the US would not be amongst my top 60 countries where I'd like to live my final years. Sorry.
Yea US was not an option I wanted to seriously explore when I decided to emigrate next year. Every country has it's issues and no country is perfect but the US, there's far too much wrong with it, as they say.. it's a 3rd World country with a Gucci belt.
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 I have lived and worked in more than a dozen countries on several continents during my life. Replace your Africa with my Middle and Far East, and your Canada with my Australia, New Zealand and a few more Pacific islands. I'm also a wee bit older than you. A couple of the countries I have lived in, would not be possible to do so now due to political changes BUT, aside from those, and if I were otherwise entirely free to choose, I have to say that the USA would not even be on my list of preferred countries in which to retire, either for part or all of the year. The UK is not perfect - no country is! - but I came back 'home' when I retired, and have not regretted it. Or only when the weather's like this!
Yes, as a European, i am fed up of Americans continually boasting about how free they are as if every other citizen of the free world is cowering in fear of a monolithic government. Perhaps a rule of thumb is that those are really free don't feel it necessary to continually bang on about "our freedoms". I am a Brit who has lived for a long time in France. I have never heard anyone talk about "our freedoms". Freedom is a generally accepted concept that is just part of life. Nothing to discuss.
@brianbarcroft9167 Who is talking about all this freedom with you in france? Are you online too much? You sound like people who complain about trans when it's probably not the issue its being made out to be right? Freedom is a cultural pillar for americans. You may not agree with it but why bother to whine about it. But if you must stand on your pedestal it's fine I guess because that's all it really is .....
@erica.7231 I've no idea what you are banging on about. I've already told you that we don't bang on about our freedoms because we simply take them for granted. If you want to obsess about them feel free - but stop telling me that your freedom is somehow better than mine. It's arrogant and wrong. Plus all your freedoms are based on those hard won by Europeans. Was the original Bill of Rights American. Magna Carta? Of course not.
@dominikdiensthuber7458 Right, so not the best, the greatest in the world, not an example to us all! And I wonder if that survey included the freedom not to go bankrupt over health care or the freedom for our children not to have to do active shooter drills at school. I suspect not.
I'm Finnish. I rent my 2 bedroom appertment in a building where all appartments are privately owned, and 70% of residents own their home and the rest rent. I get social benefits for some months of the year becouse for my profeccion. No-one here cares how you finance your life, if you have your shit together as a neighbour. The city owns appartments for people who need further support, but those appartments are all over the city. In Finland vacations are paid and mandatory. You can't not have vacation. We have 5 weeks yearly of which 4 is summer vacation. Also there are unlimited payed sick days. You just need to have a docktors note on the appropriate rest time. And its illegal to fire someone on sick leave. The government supports the employer in longer sick leave costs.
I live in the Netherlands and it's almost the same her. And I think, just like Finland, we have payed time when you give birth. In total 3 months. All people here have Social Health care. It's basic care for your own doctor and the hospital. You pay the resurgence about 140,00 euro each month but they can't regret you the medical basic care.
@RexFeral55 Gee, Rex, reread your own post and tell me if you think it was clear. Are you thinking I'm American or not? I never mentioned my own nationality. Now, before you try being clever again and having a hissy, try engaging brain. Might help avoid confusion.
I agree - we have a mainly unarmed police force who have suffered some losses over the years due to gun crime. Every so often there is talk of arming the whole police force but most people do not seem to be keen on the idea. Criminals and paramilitary groups do have guns but usually use them against one another. I’m inclined to the view that having an armed police force would just escalate situations.
Talk for yourself, Salix. I want to be able to defend myself against "ordinary" criminals as well as against the state. Ironically 95% of people like you see nothing wrong with the police or military having guns - NPC.
My mum retired and moved into a bungalow at the coast, given to her by the local council/housing association. She gets a state pension, her rent paid and free prescriptions, delivered to her door for free. Plus free healthcare of course. I'm so glad she was born in England and not America.
What do you mean "free"? We are being taxed into oblivion to pay for illegal immigrants and healthcare tourists, who get given all the council housing now, who clog up the NHS so nobody can see a doctor or have to wait a year for a procedure. Our healthcare is not free, it is paid for by every taxpayer yet we are the ones who don't get any of the benefits. Also the standard of care is dreadful, all the hospitals are full with long wait times. Everyone knows if you need something done you have to go the private healthcare route now.
@@mouseinthehouse_ We all know full well it's not 'free' , but it _is_ free at the point of use. I live in a fairly poor area of the NW of England and do not recognise the country and systems you describe. I am almost 80, have a beautiful, warm HA garden flat and manage very nicely on a standard pension TYVM. I can get quick appointments with my GP, had eye surgery at a teaching hospital in a major city in 2020, 2022 and earlier this year. There are many immigrants here in East Lancashire and I count increasing numbers among my friends.
@@John-jw8rx I am in a similar siruation. I retired over 15 years ago, I live in a beautiful garden flat - small but perfectly formed! - in an over-55s HA block, with my State Pension, and various other allowances. Neighbours in the surrounding area are kind and friendly, and of course I have my free bus pass to travel wherever I want, when I want. I am fortunate to still be in good health, but I have had several eye surgeries in the past few years , all done promptly by a wonderful team in a huge teaching hospital in the biggest city in the Northwest, with transport door-to-door.
@mouseinthehouse_ free at the point of access. No bill at the end. My mum has recently been treated for lung cancer and I must say the care she received was excellent. From the diagnosis to the treatment, was superb.
@Sine-gl9ly Yes, some moan (see comment above) but our system is still far better than Americas, they literally get no help at all. Some people don't realise how good we actually have it. No state pension, no housing benefit, no social housing. Don't pay your rent on a Friday, homeless by Monday. I'm so glad my mum lives here and not in America.
Someone said in a comment in another vid about freedom something like this: in US people say they are free TO but in Europe we say that we are free FROM - a bad life, bad things...something like that and so true.
@@England-BobTrump would not be allowed to run for the PM in another country. Plus he will be facing the rest of his criminal activities in court in 2029. That's if he is still alive by then.
I recently argued with an american who makes gun related videos and he was in the comment secion yappin about the freedom of owning guns in the U.S. I tried to explain that we in Europe CAN have guns too, but we just don't NEED them and not needing guns is a damn good freedom to have. He did not understand. He asked: "What do you mean? You CAN buy guns but you don't want to?". It's as if this concept is really hard to grasp. I gave up after several attemps to explain.
Freedom under responsibility. This is a direct translation of a swedish saying. (Frihet under ansvar) The meaning is that freedom comes from accepting responsibility, ie a basic care for others. Without this acceptance of responsibility, the word is spelled freedoom.
What is it with Americans and treating the whole of Europe as a monoculture and that we're all alike. It is very ignorant and insulting towards Europeans who have their own unique culture and ways of living
Although EU laws bind European countries in either edges of the continent together by providing the same basic legal framework from Greece to Finland, from Portugal to Iceland and from Spain to Romania. In addition it emanates to other non-EU countries too
The biggest difference between the US and the EU is that there is a lot more autonomy in the countries in the EU compared to the autonomy of the states in the US, but there are big cultural differences across the inhabitants of the different states too. We in Europe tend to do the same and view all US citizens as similar, while in reality they are perhaps just as diverse as EU citizens. Still, the lack of general knowledge about the world from most US citizens never ceases to amaze me...
Americans are a product of the education system in America that is grossly underfunded and the teachers feel undervalued. The curriculum that is taught carries an American bias.Pupils are taught nothing about anything outside of America. Hence they have zero social awareness and are willfully ignorant after saying the pledge of allegiance each day at school. They are indoctrinated into cult America and believe that America is the best how wrong they are.
@@jeffafa3096 one other thing that is a big difference, we Europeans embrace and learn from eachother and our differences... in US its sadly deviding ppl .. its rly sad
Yep. I pledged my allegiance to the Federal Republic of Germany after basic training in the navy. Once. But then, Americans seem to easily forget which country they are in and have to be reminded by seeing their flag on every corner.
I'm in the UK. I love your attitude Tyler. You personally disprove many American stereotypes by being open to new info and an all round nice guy. The gun thing is big for me. I've lived here all my life and I've never been in fear of gun violence, not for a single second.
I feel the same about Norway, too. I always ask people from the US which freedoms they think they have that we don't have in most of Europe. None of them have ever come up with one.
@@JoannDaviaw there goes that American ignorance again! Considering our government implements a minimum wage for EVERYONE, I would guess that you're talking out of your arse!
On the healthcare subject, the US also has artificially High drug prices due to a lack of regulation which allows the pharmaceutical industry to collude in price fixing. This is why people smuggle pharmaceuticals from Canada where drugs are more realistically priced. The terrible part is that in America the cost of medication is often many times what the same medicine costs elsewhere, which deprives the poor of medicine and pushes up the cost of health insurance depriving the poor of treatment too. The land of the free? yeah right! The land where the rich are free to exploit the poor.
Some people like abuse. If you can't afford medical treatment in the hospital, then something is not right. I can't call US land of freedom anymore, only land of rich
That is probably the thing that shakes my head even more than the "Free healthcare" thing. How can medicine, and espcecially prescription drugs (that the doctor specifically gave you to get bettter) be given fully to the market to set the price without any regulation?!
I worked for an American finance company for nine months, their abuse of your life was ridiculous, a 37.5 hour contract and 60-70 hours of work to do. Having to get up at 4.00 AM to get to a conference hundreds of miles away a full days work and then a return journey. A frequent SIXTEEN hour day, NO extra pay, a joke.
Regardless of the fact that the UK is not part of the EU anymore, the longer number vacation days, limits on hate speech, good healthcare for all citizens still apply. They didn't just disappear, nor did similar items disappear in the EU. All of the European countries have much better work/life balance rules than the USA (including one item not mentioned - maternity leave).
Social housing in the UK isn’t free. It’s built by the local authority and is rented by the tenant. That rent is lower than private rentals and people can get help with rental cost if they don’t or can’t work. And yes if you have been in it for a period of time you can buy it for reduced costs as your rent is taken into account. But the criteria for getting a house like this is strictly enforced.
In Germany, you can have guns, but you need to prove, that you have a reason for owning them. Self defense isn't a valid reason for owning a gun, as the law recognizes, that guns are escalators, rather than diminishers, if it comes to violence. In German law, we have something called 'appropriateness', when it comes to defense: If you can defend yourself with words or by walking away, you can't argue, that using a knife or a gun is 'self defense'.
better than canada. here you are not allowed to defend yourself in your own home but are told to leave the house. so what if someone is waiting outside? still cant defend yourself or YOU will be charged with assault or homicide etc.
there recently was a case in austria where a guy shot and wounded an intruder that was attacking his wife and afaik he got no punishment because he followed all the rules
The state has cannons, missiles, tanks and submarines but thinks pistols in the hands of civilians are "escalators"; and even worse - most people accept this idiocy.
It only took 1 mass shooting in the UK to make gun laws stricter. It always feels like in the USA there is no value on life if it doesn't affect certain people.
Years ago I remember arriving at work one Monday morning (in the UK) just in time to see mabagement approach one of my colleagues. They told him HE HAD NOT TAKEN ENOUGH HOLIDAYS this year and needed to use some ASAP. They actually sent him home, there and then, telling him to take the week off and come back next Monday!
Yep, I usually take 1 week off every 8 weeks or so, sometimes wind up taking all of February off just to use up my holiday before the end of the work year lol, I can't even imagine being 'lucky' enough to get 1 week a year.
Yup, companies are actually legally required to ensure their workers use their holidays. I used to work for this big tech company (won't name names, but you're familiar with their fruit logo I'm sure) in the UK via an agency. This was during covid, so people barely took holidays. Come November and they were suddenly saying people are no longer allowed to request time off for December and that you can't carry your remaining holidays to next year. Most people had around ten days of holiday they hadn't taken yet. I got into a bit of an argument about this with them and they actually just fired me on the spot which I'm pretty sure was illegal, but whatever, I was about to move to another country within a few months anyway after my contract with them would have expired. All my colleagues suddenly got to take their holidays which I'm pretty confident was because I quoted them the literal law about their responsibility over their employees taking their holidays.
In Sweden, we have 5 weeks of holiday per year. The holiday legislation states that the worker is entitled to 4 consecutive weeks of holiday. No employer can change this without reaching an agreement with the employee. In addition, unused vacation can be saved for later years.
Uhm, that's the baseline of any work contract. My employer rents my time and knowledge to do stuff for them from me. They're entitled to the contracted time, that's what they pay for. edit: not from the US btw.
Here in Germany we are legally entitled to 20 working days (4 weeks) of holiday per year, of which at least 2 weeks must be taken consecutively once a year. However, most employees have more holiday than this statutory provision. However, it cannot be less, as your employment contract can never put you in a worse position than the statutory provision allows.
When I heard about the "Freedom Convoy" in Canada, my initial reaction was one of surprise. Why are Americans coming to Canada to protest their issues? In Canada, we seldom discuss freedom because there is no need to talk about it when it is already present.
When I worked, I'm 72 now and retired, I worked for the DHSS and we had a thing called flextime. This meant that you could come in early go home late and mount up your hours. once you hit your statutory hours, usually 35 per week you could take what ever excess you worked in lieu. It was great. So if you wanted a week you just came in early and went home late for 4-5 weeks and you got a week off that did not cut into your holiday time. I have cancer and my oncologist told me that they treat to 100+ . The treatment is second to none. When I was on chemo and working (I have had it twice) I had a full year off and got full pay. I have never paid for any medical care in Britain ever and I thank the NHS they have kept me alive. I would not have it any other way. I feel so sorry for you American chasing the "America Dream* that you can never have.
@@whatwhatyep Very true but it comes out of your wages, so you don't notice. Also if you do get sick and need time in hospital or expensive meds, you aren't going to bankrupt yourself. You're certainly not going to die because your insurance won't cover your treatments.
For me, as German, my freedom of speech ends, once i violate someone other´s personal rights. We have some other exceptions on top, like the deny of the Holocaust or waving Nazi symbols, for example. It´s funny, how US citizens are so obsessed with rights, while they almost lost most of them - especially when it comes to worker´s rights. The USA is so self orientated, while in Europe it´s more about the freedom in the whole community and respect, often pushed by general rules (doesn´t even needs laws, in the most cases). I mean, this wouldn´t work in the selfish US, you can´t even follow simple rules in the traffic - the fast lane doesn´t really exist in the US and noone stays on the right lane at all. 😝 In Europe, the housing zones are usually mixed as well - rich meets the poor and they interact and celebrate together. I love this fact, not to mention the beautiful cities, grown over the centuries and not designed in blocks, like a LEGO-world.
Yes, strange isn't it that Americans can wave swastika flags and wear nazi symbols.... Freedom of speech to the max. And now they voted trump as president again who's going to destroy democracy in America in total....
An exhausted employee is a useless, and potentially very dangerous, employee. Mistakes can lead to harm or even death due to exhaustion. That's why in Europe we value and respect time-off to relax and recharge so performance levels, and safety levels, are kept higher. The American work experience sounds horrendous.
I’m in the U.K. and I live in social housing. I’m disabled. We pay rent, it’s just lower than if we paid a landlord, and the council does any adaptations I need. We are a little pocket in my village. 9 bungalows. All for disabled. And it’s in the nicest area of my village.
In Oslo, Norway social housing can be very expensive. I worked for a guy with MS, of course he needs a bigger apartment for his assistants etc. 15k nok he paid for 1 bedroom and one open plan livingroom/kitchen.
To us Swedes/Nordics/Europeans, much of your concept of freedom is difficult, bordering on impossible to understand at all. Let me give two examples: The freedom to bear arms: We instead have the freedom from arms. My angry neighbor doesn't have an assault gun in the closet, the "road rager" I confronted yesterday didn't have a Sig Sauer 38 in the glove compartment and our cops don't have to first hand fear that the drunk driver they stopped has two guns under the seat. Oh, we absolutely have the right to own guns. What is needed is training, a gun license issued by the police authorities PLUS a valid reason such as a hunting license or a membership in a shooting club, home guard or similar. The weapon(s) must at all times be stored separately from ammunition and in an approved burglar-proof gun cabinet. The right to property: About a year ago, I explained in a completely different comment in another channel what the Swedish "allemansrätten" is. In a couple of responses from the US, it was loudly criticized. ”The Right to Property = happiness" is even older than the Constitution (less than 250 years 🤷). So let me explain a little. "Allemansrätten" is not a collection of laws here (in fact most of it is not codified) but what is called "Urminnes Hävd" (≈ claimed from times immemorial). Oh yes, we can all own, use and exploit property and land here (in fact the absolute majority of land in Sweden is privately owned). What we can’t do is to dictate and enforce to everybody else exactly what they can and cannot do on that land. This is instead outlined in "Allemansrätten". These rights include, among other things the right to stay everywhere in nature (there are of course limitations to guarantee privacy), the right to pick wild berries, mushrooms, flowers and fallen nuts and many other things. No, it is definitely not allowed to put up signs like "No Trespassing - Trespassers will be shot". To me, things like these this are true freedom, no guns, no barbed wire fences, no exclusion, in autumn lots of Swedes in the forest, equipped with berry pickers and mushroom baskets without having to worry about breaking any local or private laws.
This is the single best way I've ever heard this said - "We instead have the freedom from arms." Something we Canadians think all the time. On his Canadian channel last week Tyler learned about Canadian gun laws and actually said shooting someone is justified if they try to break into your home.. The 'stand your ground' law doesn't exist in Canada and the fact that Americans can shoot someone who steps onto their property is insane.
@hrafnatyr9794 Tala för dig själv. Du är korkad. Innan 1934 fanns det överhuvudtaget inte vapenlicenser i Sverige. De flesta vapenlagar i Europa kom till under 1900-talet för att förebygga väpnade uppror, alltså för att hålla folket kuvat. Är det något de har rätt i i USA är det att vapenägande ska vara en odiskutabel rättighet. Du har INTE en rättighet att äga vapen, om du äger dem på statens villkor.
"Allemansrätten" is usually named "freedom to roam" in English which allows anyone to go anywhere (with some limitations). Basically owning a piece of land does not limit people from walking/camping there... But you can't harm crops or camp for long.
It could be that the US Govt do NOT want you to KNOW about a different lifestyle - just in case everyone leaves the USA for any other country, because MOST other country are free-er than YOU ARE.... AND even if you do emigrate to another country YOU will still be expected to PAY US TAXES. So MAYBE its the loss of Taxes they FEAR rather than the loss of Citizens....
@@AltCutTV Unless you find another country that treats you so much better, then you can renounce your US Citizenship and take out a European Citizenship thereby avoiding to pay a Tax in a country you do not reside or have a Citizenship in
@@djtwo2 Then its down to you to work out which is cheapest in the long run, pay X ammount of $ or pay tax on your salary that you earned outside of USAs area of control.
If you don't use up all your vacation days, you might end up in a situation where you can sue your company for not providing you with the mandated vacation days. So if you have vacation days left, and it is only three months left of the year, and you have not requested any vacation for those days, your manager might have a talk with you about using up your vacation days before the end of the year, to avoid any potential lawsuit. This differs a little from country to country. In some countries, vacation days can be carried over into the next year, or converted into money. However, many companies don't want the hassle, so they will at least send you a reminder email to please plan your remaining vacation days for the year, once you enter the fourth quarter.
I work in the UK for a well-known US courier company and get 27 days holiday a year. I just sold 5 days back as didn't get around to using them. And I work an average of 30 hours a week. So it's obviously possible for them to do it in the US.
The main difference is that we have responsibilities and rules with our freedoms, being a Dane, the right to be a citizen, to vote, to own a gun, to drive a car and many others, comes with rules and is considered a privilege, that has to be worked and studied for. A simple example; if you witness an accident, you MUST aid the victims. If you do nothing, you will face being charged by the state.....Being ignorant isn't an excuse, it's the citizens duty to be informed about the existing rules and regulations. If you stand before a judge and say "I didn't know that", is definitely not to your defense advantage....I've seen so many US tourists behaving in traffic here, as if they were at home in the US, getting up in the face of the local police about their rights...guess who always lost that argument. Also; a happy worker is a productive worker....And as an American, you should ask yourself why the US is the ONLY industrialized country without a state run healthcare system....
I sometimes think American has very few rights to be able to live a normal life unless your rich and and that is not freedom without worry but the top people don’t want to spend money on you
18:25 not encouraged, but totally normal. France is able to be more productive than Japan while working between 35 and 45 hours per week. Spending time with our family, having tike for ourselves on the weekends, taking care of our health allows us to perform better the next day. The faster you heal, the faster you can work efficiently. The more you could rest for the weekend, the more energy you have for work
Aside from general leave days most jobs in the UK have Volunteer time off (VTO) days too, this is an employer benefit that enables employees to take paid leave (usually a few days per year) and spend this time volunteering with a charity or non-profit organisation. Some also give you a free day off on your birthday.
We have free day off for blood donors and four days per year of so called day off on demand - you don't have to justify it, don't need doctor's note, nothing. And you can take it even 5 mins before you start your work.
@fionagregory9147 Fiona. Indeed I do. Not everyone has spell checker activated and the best of people may hit keys on a small keyboard on a mobile phone when rushing to get ready. As you have pointed an error out, I will amend! Leaving it so would be a mistake and in the company of yourself that would be such a terrible thing. If that's the best you can do. You've a sad existence my dear. 😊
@@fionagregory9147 irrelevant, that's not an argument proving them wrong. The very fact that the U.S amendments exist literally proves that they can be changed, and yet you attack each other over a requested change.
One thing that really shocked me the first time I visited the US was the number of elderly people I saw working quite menial jobs (I mean people who looked like they were approaching 70+). It would be interesting to hear what the state pension/disability allowance is in the US. In the UK you can work in your 70s if you choose to but it’s not typical.
@@NagadirGame Agree. I've been retired over 15 years and I am as busy, or busier, than I ever was when I was working, all with things I _choose_ to do!
@@91GT347 Yes but I’m talking about hard jobs - housekeeping, shop work, etc. Things generally better suited to fit/healthy people. I’m not saying people in their 70s/80s shouldn’t work if they choose to, but the number I saw certainly made me think many of them are working because they have to. Let’s be honest, most bored retirees with a healthy pension volunteer in much more pleasant jobs!
Yeah, having your employer question you and give you grief for take vacation is ridiculous! Living in Saskatchewan, Canada, I have never experienced that. This past summer I took two weeks off to go on a raod trip to the B.C. mountains with my kids. It's something that we do every year. We camped, hiked, visited museums, saw interesting sights. I even booked off two weeks during the Christmas holidays to visit with family, friends, and attend a wedding. I work for a video production company that, like most businesses, appreciate having a work/life balance. I also get 12 days a year as personal days to use however I wish! Although I usually never use it. It's more for unseen emergencies. 🇨🇦👍🏼
In the place where I worked for 20 years, they massively motivated you to take holiday, because if you DIDNT, at the end of the year they would have to pay you for the days you didnt take, which they really didnt want to do.
I am being pestered by the management where I work (a government building) right now as it is close to the end of the year, to take my holidays so they can "close the books". And apparently they don't take no for an answer.
@@JJ-ps2ec I dont mean its paid holiday, so you are being paid either way, they had to compensate you for working instead of taking holiday. So it was like doing overtime pay.
all new housing estates being built in UK HAVE to include some affordable housing, shared ownership housing (pay mortgage and rent on the rest to the council etc), social housing and everything from 1-5 bed homes/apartments, you cannot just build large family homes. you also have to build green space and depending where you build, you also have to include local ammenities like a little row shops, bus stops, nurseries (kindergarten) and even schools
@@stoneoutdooradventures2286No, he's saying that you can easily acquire a gun without checks even as children, but the dangerous stuff is only available with actual checks and controls in place.
Freedom and rights. The limits are extremely self explanatory in Europe: my freedom ends where tours begin. Example: you can have an absolute blast of a party, but don't expect me being friendly if you keep me awake after a certain hour if I have to work the next day. This logic of empathy to heavily populated areas is necessary to keep the murder rate down
Taking time off (for vacation as you call it in the US) isn't only encouraged, it's mandatory here in Norway. I have for some reason a few vacation days that I carry over from year to year until I finally get to take them. Every year I get 25 more days (and it's one more day extra for each year after you fill 60). I also get to take paid time off when I get sick, and for a day or two I don't even have to go and get a doctor's note to send to my employer. So yes, as the guy says, "we don't live to work, we work to live". And this also goes back to the first lie, I have the *freedom* to not work myself to death, and my employer gets a more efficient worker who isn't burned out. Win-win, but it's sure a hard pill to swallow if your idea of freedom is to get an assault rifle and take it with you to the supermarket or even a school.
I lost EVERYTHING bc of lack of healthcare in the states. I’m grateful my husband was from N Ireland bc that’s where he had to go bk to for cancer treatment. Dr’s even make home visits! I left when the orange toddler got in bc I knew my husband would never have the healthcare he needed in the states. I had a a major stroke last year & do you know what the bill was for the ambulance, 5 wks in hospital, 4 months home physio 3 times a week & follow up care? NOTHING! I’m glad to be out of the states! I’m free to have a actual life now & not constantly spinning the plates!
I live in what is known as social housing. I'm not exactly poor but I cannot afford to own my own home. My neighbourhood has a mixture of social housing and owner occupier housing
@@fionagregory9147 Some years ago the government of the day brought in a scheme where tenants of some social housing would have the right to buy their homes at a discount, only problem with the scheme was that money made from the sales wasn't made available for new social housing to be built as a result there is a shortage. In my case I had to retire due to ill health so no mortgage company would lend me any money if I wanted to buy a home
I suspect that Tyler does not know exactly what social housing is in the UK. So let's put him straight. It is reasonable housing that the local council owns and the occupiers rent from the council, usually at a lot lower cost than private landlord costs. My mum lived in social housing as a child until she got married. She had seven siblings and the house they had (is still standing) was 3 bedrooms but the children's ages were spread over 20 years so at one point (I was talking to an aunt yesterday) they had the four youngest sharing a double bed in one of the rooms, topped and tailed as it was called. It was enough to live, maybe a bit cramped, within your means if you were/are on a low to average wage. There are usually waiting lists held by the councils of people wanting to get into them so they are clearly a popular option.
I live in social housing, rented from a housing association rather than the local council. The majority of social housing is run by them now as the councils sold a lot of their properties a few years ago. I think I am right in saying that all new housing estates have to allot 10% of the properties to social housing by law.
Death panel is what we have in the form of private health insurance co. The insurance company decides if you get to have your doctor recommended treatment covered.
I live on a new "posh" housing estate in the UK. there are a few houses for the less fortunate, but it is not broadcast. No one knows who they are. Because it's not important.
There are two aspects about the US that I find both fascinating, and a bit disturbing: 1. The use of the word "benefits", to describe things like vacation time, parental leave, etc. Yes these things are beneficial to the individual employee, but calling them benefits makes it sound like your benevolent CEO has, out of the goodness of their heart, bestowed upon you this great gift. In practically all of the western world, and many non-western countries as well, these things aren't called benefits, they are called rights. Language matters. 2. The way many Americans seem so outraged that their tax dollars could potentially be used to pay for healthcare/food stamps/education/housing/etc., for someone who didn't work as hard as they did, made the wrong decisions in life, became ill, or whatever other reasons caused them to need help. It seems so incredibly divorced from compassion, and a sense of community. But at the same time many of these people are very religious, and supportive of the idea of charity. Someone from the US pointed out to me that they are willing to help the less fortunate, but only if they choose to do so; hence all the charity fundraisers. So it's like this weird amalgamation of "keep your hands off my stuff" - "I should share some of my stuff with people who have less stuff" - "god forbid anyone tries to organize sharing of stuff, because that is communism".
Fun-fact: In Germany it's illegal to have no Health Insurrance. And if you can't afford it, the goverment jumps in and pays for it and you'll get the Healt Insurrance for free! :)
One way I heard it put recently is that Americans want to have "freedom to" do something. Freedom to own guns, freedom to talk smack, etc. Whereas in Europe we value our "freedom from" bad stuff: freedom from being abused, freedom from egregious medical debt, freedom from being shot by a stray bullet, freedom from being exploited, etc.
24:00 Tyler, yes that's more or less what was being said, it was also said that those types of panels exist in Europe, because of 'Free' Healthcare. The argument is you don't want the government deciding what treatment(s) could be available. In the US the government does not decide this, your Health Insurance Company does
@@patrikwennergren6796 As I Understand it. The panels as described are not (and have never been ) in operation. In UK, the nearest equivalent is NICE, which is a panel which looks at various treatments (normally new), and if they don't work, or work no better than a placebo they are not offered, or if they are very expensive for not much benefit (something like a 5-10% chance of cure, where more conventional option gives10% chance), then they are not normally offered. Our NHS system works alongside private/insurance based systems such as BUPA, it is rare that an insurance will cover something that NICE has declined, but you can probably pay privately. NICE is based on the treatment not the patient (in general) as I understand it . A problem with this system is that some conditions ( MS for instance) are more likely to give positive results with placebos.
FROM ENGLAND HERE..... I ... I dont get a gun because i dont need one ....I Live in a bungalow rented to me by the local council in a really nice area .... WE look at family time it keeps employees keen to work .... IM nearly 70 with a grown up Daughter and two beautiful grandchildren who visit me at least 3 times a week .....WE the people in england look after our older generation .... everyone gets treated the same ....YOU Pledge your life to a government wow thats strange ... LOOK BACK TO HITLER AND THE THIRD REICH
@@mattg56 it is still a weird thing, it's indoctrination - like when schoolkids in the British Empire had to salute the flag and sing the National Anthem (God Save the King) every Monday morning They were still doing that in state schools in Australia when i went there in the 1970's - as an 11 year old British kid I was mystified as to why a school in an independent nation on the otherr side of the world was doing this As a Pommie kid fresh off the boat, I didn't understand why Aussie kids thought this was normal If you look back in history, Hitler took this one stage further, and school kids in Nazi run schools (which was basically all of them) were taught and encouraged to report their parents and family members if they said or did anything the Nazi party didn't approve of
Brit here. It's really refreshing to watch your reactions to this kind of stuff. I like how you go into these almost blind and respect the other cultures. You even give your input and are willing to learn about this stuff. I have seen the ignorance of other reaction channels, not only from your side of the pond but also British reaction channels, that just sit there and say, "Well, that's a stupid thing," and I commend you for that.
I love the confusion for Americans who can’t comprehend the existence of a healthcare system that could be about keeping people healthy, rather than existing to make huge profits for someone.
US: You have freedom to behave whichever way you like. EU: You have freedom from people behaving whichever way they like😅 (I'm obviously being dramatic, but the foundation of the argument is true😅).
City planning engineer here from the EU living in the UK. It is partially true the UK is trying for at least in the last 15-20 years to build social housing in areas commonly populated by middle class people. Not sure how much success we can measure currently if you do not try also to elevate the schooling system with it. On the other hand I have spent 3 years in the US in New York and Chicago studying social erosion done by the misfortune of careless city planning. The results were clear. The UK's approarch is more humanistic and carry a great promise with further development meanwhile the US's approach is more speculative on financial gain as soon the poor areas declared to be demolished and buy them out for cheap. You could call it a scam or a scheme.
In Slovenia, there is a minimum of 20 days of vacation (4 weeks), after which there are additional days of vacation for education, working conditions and length of service, the company is legally obliged for workers use at least two weeks of vacation for each employee. In addition, we have 15 working days off national holidays, but every year a few fall on the weekend.
I heard something absolutely bonkers from an US friend that her health insurance refused her support on her meds because she and her adult children earn too much. You won't find anywhere in Europe that your adult children are included when calculating any financial support from your health insurance. Unheard of.
I'd say the lie that US is more patriotic than other countries should be added there. Most Americans seem to think there is only one way to show patriotism and commonly mistake nationalism for patriotism. The top lie Americans seem to believe though that Europe is one culture, laws, belief and ideology is something that should be addressed first. Europe and the UK are many different countries and they all have their own thoughts, ways of doing things, laws, etc. Europe is a continent Not a country! That being said there are for the most part some common beliefs, perspectives and ways of doing things that many (again not all) generally have in common and I think this is what this guy was presenting.
I'm in the Netherlands, I had 26 overtime days on my timesheet and in October my manager told me to take those days off before the Christmas vacation, and I did.
I'm from Poland and I was indeed scolded by my boss once or twice for not using up all my vacation days. I get 26 days od vacation (which together with national holidays makes a total of 39 days off work a year). If I don't use it all up it transfers to the next year and you are supposed to use up the extra before 30 of September. If you forget the company gets upset.
Social housing is for people who can't afford to buy a house or can't afford "free market" rent prices. It's often older and disabled people who are on some kind of welfare program. This is because the amount of welfare per month is about the same as the "free market" rent prices. So that's not affordable as you will not have money to eat, electricity, heating or anything else. I live in social housing and it's a cute little house. It's almost 100 years old and the housing association tried to insulate it as good as possible. It has a tiny garden. You could house 2 and 1 child here but that would be cramped. (though 100 years ago there would be mother, father and 5 kids or so in one of these houses.) Also. the netherlands has a 36 or 38 hour workweek. Unless there are emergency situations, overtime is discouraged. Your pay is good enough to just have one fulltime job and you'll be able to live, rent or buy. Your healthinsurance doesn't depend on your job. As a disabled person i have the same health insurance as my neighbour who works 38 hours a week. Exactly the same. Death panels. Well that's what they have the the USA as you don't have general healthcare. You have your insurars who determine if you get it covered. So either you go completely broke, or.. well you die. So I would say that the USA has deathpanels who are in charge of the private health insurance. The netherlands everybody is covered. Period.
Here in Australia, many workers get "leave loading" when taking leave from work. It's a "bonus" of 17.5% on top of a base salary for the duration of the time you take off. It started as a way to compensate employees for not being able to do overtime when on leave. So that's 17.5% extra for the 4weeks leave you're legally entitled to. Now it's seen more as a bonus for taking your leave entitlement.
Whenever I hear an American saying that they wouldn't want to move to Europe because there's no free speech, this is interpreted as, "I want to be able to say hateful things and for there to be no consequences for doing so." Because if you don't say anything worth being prosecuted for, why would you care about the potential for being prosecuted for the things you say?
Oh, another thing. In my last job I had 30 days leave per year plus about an extra 9 days public holiday. Sick days, as many as you need for serious illness. single days 10+ commonly referred to as duvet days because you just can't get your shit out of bed. btw, I'm British, the rules throughout Europe are more generous.
About US being seen as weird as far as work demands are concerned: In Australia, before I retired, the standard for my Award was 4 weeks recreation leave a year, and if you didn't take a year's leave by the 3rd year after it accrued then you were required to be on leave - as in, you were paid the leave bonus and were officially on leave even if you came in. It had been decided by the experts that, like taking tea breaks and lunch breaks, productivity dropped if the leave wasn't taken. I remember reading that in WWII military manufacture, people wanted to keep working through the breaks. Trouble was, correcting mistakes made from loss of concentration etc. when work was continuous actually lowered the weekly output. So they were ordered to take tea and meal breaks as a way to support the war effort! Similarly, failure to take recreation leave leads to burnout, increased illness, and distraction by family problems. We also have sick leave which builds up, 2 weeks full pay and 2 weeks half pay each year in my award. Useful if you got cancer after 10 years of service without much sickness! The rule is 10 days as national minimum (pro rata for part time) - remember, coming to work while unfit drops productivity and can spread disease. Casual staff get 25% added pay in lieu of leave, so they can save up to cover missed shifts.
I don't remember which video it was, but someone said that in The USA it's all about having "freedom to do something" (to own guns, to say whatever they want, to fire people whenever they want etc), while in Europe it's more about "freedom from something" (freedom from hate speech, freedom from exploitation, freedom from the fear of losing everything if you get sick or lose your job). It's both about freedom but still very different concepts.
I really enjoyed your thoughtful reaction to this video, Tyler. Thanks for making it. I do hope you can travel to the UK one day - you'd be very welcome! PS. React more to Scotland.
About "death panels" in Europe. I live in Poland - relatively poor country of Europe when you compare it to Germany, France and especially Nordic countries. My mom had cancer - very awful one. At some point doctors told my dad that there's no chance - it's a matter of a month more less. However they told my dad that they were keep her in hospital, give her chemo and medicines and generally take care of her. Chances were next to zero and they knew that, openly said that but were treating her as they seen any chances. They said that miracles happens sometimes so they always fight to the very end. Of course neither my dad or hospital crew told that to my mom. It's the worst thing you can do. This is why my mom lived to the very last day fighting and thinking she has a chance. Not taking hope from her. Chances were of course but next to zero. Point is that hospital spare funds to treat her even if it was lost cause. Eventually doctors where right and my mother died almost exactly month later. It's even stupid to talk about money now but that was the point of the video. As you can expect our "medical bill" was exactly $0 because here there's no such thing as medical bill. So yes - death panels exists - but only in America throught insurance companies. Ironically I'm writing this comment exactly at the day (or maybe day after) when some hitman shoot to death a CEO of the biggest health insurance company in America. I'm wondering what was a motiviation of the shooter. A death panel over his wife maybe? Or maybe his kid? Re-think your "freedom" America because right now you look like bunch of fools buying cheap crap from your goverment thinking you're "free". Instead you're sitting there and scratching your head why whole rest of the world is making fun of you at every possible point. Honestly you're not different from Russians thinking that Putin actually cares for Russian citizens. The difference is that some Russians knows it's bullshit but in America everyone (regardless of party) still belives in this American bullshit.
In the UK, until the Tories sold them all off as part of their Regan inspired "free market", there used to be what were known as "council houses". These were built and owned by the local council, and rented out fairly cheaply to low-income families. They were always good quality houses, and usually well looked after, and people liked living in them. And yes, the work/life balance in the UK and Europe is so much better than in the US, with legal minimums for holidays, etc. As for "death panels", they don't exist in Europe or the UK, and never have done, but you do have them in the US in the form of the insurance companies. So that's a case of taking an American trait and trying to project it onto somewhere else as a bad thing.
This may be true in parts of the UK but certainly not as a whole. I am a tenant rep. with Hull City Council where we still have over 22,000 Council houses. There are also several Regulated Social Landlords (RSL's) who also provide properties to rent at affordable prices. One thing we in Social Housing also benefit from is tight regulation on housing standards and where I live it is nearly always the privately owned properties that are in the worst condition.
Council housing still exists and you need to point out that the right to buy scheme was so that existing tenants could purchase the home they had been renting, in many cases for decades. It enabled thousands of people to become home owners who had never even dreamed that might be possible for them. The mistake was I’m not using the money from the sales to replace the housing that was sold.
8:47 "The most open gun laws in the world" ... With the example of it not being regulated at all as it is very easy to get a gun in the US. So, the 'laws' are not to protect citizens against those guns, they are there to make sure people can buy guns,whether they are part of a regulated militia or not (In the US usually not). The right to bear arms is more important to many Americans than preventing people from being killed by them. It is however positive that most Americans are for red flag laws and background checks. Too bad politicians don't get it done because the gun lobby owns them. Don't understand why you Americans don't get furious at those politicians and make them do their jobs for the majority of the American people!
I'm Norwegian and a gun owner. As are many of my friends, my brother in law and his family. My cousin is a bona fide gun nut, and he takes no offense when we call him that, unlike some USAians ;) He's the kind of guy who posts gun videos on RUclips. But it *is* highly regulated. For which I'm glad.
Same in Germany. We have 5 million guns being stored separately from the ammo in real ammunition lockers that need to be licensed and locked. Getting a gun license takes time, money and a white vest with police. I like it!
Regarding the topic of 'freedom of speech/expression' is that in the US, it is not illegal to say those things. You can get sued, and get in some other problems, but in Europe (mostly) it is illegal! You don't need to get sued. You may even get jail time, depending on what you said/claimed. You may say whatever you want, as long as that doesn't interfere with the liberty of others to exist peacefully. On that line, but not so extensive, the way American politicians talk about each other, and the crazy and offesinse stuff they say, like we've seen, it's unheard of Europe. NO ONE would speak of a rival that way, calling names and stuff. Even if it's not a crime, it would be so shamefull, nobody would do it.
In the UK some places are trialing a 4 day working week! ( you do the same hours in the week but have 4 slightly longer days to get an extra day off work).
I did some nightshifts like that once, 4 nightshift's per working week. When I retired we could work extra hours and build up time off in lieu (TOIL) if your job suited it. You could easily build up extra Mondays or Fridays to get a long weekend. Adding a day on to a bank holiday weekend for a four day weekend was popular.
"........... encouraged to take time off" here in the UK and Europe you have to take your time off, I was only allowed to 'carry to carry over' 5 days from one year to another. Also time off is with full pay!
When I was still working, I had 8 weeks of paid vacation, and twice a year my employer organized a day of relaxation for us, where we didn't work but spent the working day eating and going out together.
in our country, you need to have at least 18 certified shooting range visits a year (and a clean record) to contain your gun.. if its less you have to give up your gun. You have to go to the police station every year to show the official records. you can`t buy a gun just because you are 21or 18..( i don`t know the age in the USA ) and have it the rest of your life. In our country it`s called a shooting sport, if you don`t take the sport serious you will be kicked out if you have less than 18 visits a year.
Tyler: Homework for you: Watch 2 of Michael Moores documentaries: Where to invade next(2015) about what other nations can offer, meaning what good ideas do they have, that should be brought home to the USA, and Sicko(2007) started to cover healthcare, but goes further into other social benefits for all citizens.
What happens if you become ill long term or lose your job in the US? In Europe you will get benefits, which you are entitled to as you pay for the with taxes, to cover expenses, rent and or mortgage. This means you will not know if your neighbours are on benefits.
19:28 Yes this is true! It is a small trial. If I remember correctly it’s for nurses. And during June, July and August the employers have to give you three weeks vacation that is in a row. During the month of July many companies can force you to take your vacation days because the business closes so they can’t provide any work assignments and you have no colleagues a work during those weeks. There’s a minimum of 25 vacation days per year that you get and they are paid by your employer and you can only save 5 of those days til another year.🇸🇪
Elegance? Lol. If you mean pledge allegiance to flag/country, well you’ve got the Phillipines, South Korea, Bahamas, Mexico.. North Korea isn’t even on the list but they may do something of the sort.
Don't forget the first list of rights for the population against tyrant kings was the Magna Carta, in England in 1215. The first 'Bill of Rights' also came from Britain, in 1689 in the Glorious Revolution that made the Constitutional Monarchy, with Parliament in charge. Also the American Constitution, & Declaration of Independence were created by British colonists, out of 17th century English principles, coming out of Civil wars. Social housing here in the UK is not free to poor people. It is houses that a built by local authorities that people rent, but can also buy in part or whole. The 28 days off in Europe are paid leave, by law. Also you are entitled to all the time you need for illness, injury or sick leave, also for the most part paid by the employer. I once took my son out of a school when I found them trying to indoctrinate the kids in Catholic dogma at 5 years of age, because it's meaningless to a young child, & just making then conform without knowing.
You forgot the Country PAYS a monthly Pension from the Taxes you pay on your wages from your first job until your last job, in my case I started my first paid employment at 16 and retired at 67. My Pension is better than my last PAID employment, and if you are Poor they will pay your Housing Rent and City Taxes (Council Tax)
@@lynnm6413it varies from country to country. In England it’s a basic of 21 days holidays +7 bank holidays (although you can actually take the bank holidays off when you want, effectively making it 28). While it’s not the law many companies will give extra holidays for length of service.
@@danielriley7380 interesting that you count the bank holidays towards the vacation days. In Germany every state has different religious days off, depending if they are more Protestant or Catholic. Bavaria still honors most of the religious days so they get off the most in 🇩🇪…they always need an extra Wurst! 😉
@ years ago bank holidays could be taken as holidays as a default plus 21 statutory holidays. If businesses wanted staff to work bank holidays they either had to offer a higher rate of pay or add a day to their holiday entitlement. When the law changed to effectively be included in total holidays some businesses still offered the higher rate if you didn’t take the day but it wasn’t the norm for small businesses, just larger businesses and public sector jobs.
In the UK, social housing is spred because when a group of houses is buildt, a pourcentage is buildt for social hiusing by law. Then the families can buy its house with the " rent", little by little, so that the house stays in good care by the owner....
Well, number 1 isn't true. Bush was talking about the middle east in that speech, not Europe. No one here hates you for your freedoms. That's just nonsense.
the clip wasn't a true representation ... but there are some freedoms that european countries have that some americans do not like. a large emphasis on SOME US Citizens. I do not believe most USA citizens feel this way.
I am from the UK. I lived in the USA for 7 years.
While I was there, they would constantly come up to me and say things about the UK that were not true. When I corrected them and proved I was correct, they would get upset and say if I hate the USA so much, what are you doing here and then they would usually finish by saying I was jealous of their freedoms. Because I didn't have any in the UK and everybody knows that. It didn't bother me as I knew they were wankers.
@@BarryOconnor-z9q yes
I know everyone wants to speak to you even strangers I don't want to talk all the time its like you never have freedom to get away from ppl. I like very very small talk especially if I don't know the person.
After a while one gets tired to correct their faulty assumptions, when they are unable to deal with the truth!
Chuckle...... At cognitive dissonance. 😂
You have the freedom the UK/Ireland to go for a walk without worrying about being shot. Most of the wotld actually.
Still waiting for Americans to realize that "Europe" is not one place with one culture, the same traditions, laws etc.
Same with the "British" accent.
What do you mean it's not 1 county...you've got your own court and parliament and flag😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Or even "realise" 🤦
@@Alan-q5f3u are you referring to the European Union? You can't be that ignorant, right?
@@Alan-q5f3u TF are you taking about. Did you reply to the wrong comment?
Tyler, over the course of my 75 yrs to date, I've travelled extensively. I've lived and either worked or studied in the US (twice, totalling 10 yrs), E Africa (15 yrs), Canada (as a student for 6 yrs and later working for five), HK (4 yrs), EU countries (totalling 11 yrs), S Africa (school for four yrs), and England and Wales. Today, if I was entirely free to choose, the US would not be amongst my top 60 countries where I'd like to live my final years. Sorry.
Yea US was not an option I wanted to seriously explore when I decided to emigrate next year. Every country has it's issues and no country is perfect but the US, there's far too much wrong with it, as they say.. it's a 3rd World country with a Gucci belt.
Hi, I travelled the World for 26 years and I TOTALLY AGREE
@@t.a.k.palfrey3882 I have lived and worked in more than a dozen countries on several continents during my life. Replace your Africa with my Middle and Far East, and your Canada with my Australia, New Zealand and a few more Pacific islands. I'm also a wee bit older than you. A couple of the countries I have lived in, would not be possible to do so now due to political changes BUT, aside from those, and if I were otherwise entirely free to choose, I have to say that the USA would not even be on my list of preferred countries in which to retire, either for part or all of the year.
The UK is not perfect - no country is! - but I came back 'home' when I retired, and have not regretted it. Or only when the weather's like this!
Do you mind explaining why?
I would sunner have the freedoms in my run down country than live in the USA 😂😂😂😂
Owning a gun isnt a freedom, being able to live safely without one is.
Schools everywhere else: no running in the halls
American schools: no full auto in buildings
@@rogerszmodis
UK = impoverished island nation
Tell that to the 50,510 people in England and Wales who were victims of knife enabled crimes last year.
@MK-fc2hn the knife murder rate per capita is higher in the US than in the UK.
@@MK-fc2hn You have conflated two issues in the feeble minded way of ordinary people.
Yes, as a European, i am fed up of Americans continually boasting about how free they are as if every other citizen of the free world is cowering in fear of a monolithic government. Perhaps a rule of thumb is that those are really free don't feel it necessary to continually bang on about "our freedoms". I am a Brit who has lived for a long time in France. I have never heard anyone talk about "our freedoms". Freedom is a generally accepted concept that is just part of life. Nothing to discuss.
Don't forget the great USA is a second world country 😂
@brianbarcroft9167 Who is talking about all this freedom with you in france? Are you online too much? You sound like people who complain about trans when it's probably not the issue its being made out to be right? Freedom is a cultural pillar for americans. You may not agree with it but why bother to whine about it. But if you must stand on your pedestal it's fine I guess because that's all it really is .....
@erica.7231 I've no idea what you are banging on about. I've already told you that we don't bang on about our freedoms because we simply take them for granted. If you want to obsess about them feel free - but stop telling me that your freedom is somehow better than mine. It's arrogant and wrong. Plus all your freedoms are based on those hard won by Europeans. Was the original Bill of Rights American. Magna Carta? Of course not.
According to the personal freedom score 2023 USA is at place 27, for general human freedom it is at place 17
@dominikdiensthuber7458 Right, so not the best, the greatest in the world, not an example to us all! And I wonder if that survey included the freedom not to go bankrupt over health care or the freedom for our children not to have to do active shooter drills at school. I suspect not.
I'm Finnish. I rent my 2 bedroom appertment in a building where all appartments are privately owned, and 70% of residents own their home and the rest rent. I get social benefits for some months of the year becouse for my profeccion. No-one here cares how you finance your life, if you have your shit together as a neighbour. The city owns appartments for people who need further support, but those appartments are all over the city.
In Finland vacations are paid and mandatory. You can't not have vacation. We have 5 weeks yearly of which 4 is summer vacation. Also there are unlimited payed sick days. You just need to have a docktors note on the appropriate rest time. And its illegal to fire someone on sick leave. The government supports the employer in longer sick leave costs.
Exactly👍
Greetings from your neighbour Norway❤️
I live in the Netherlands and it's almost the same her. And I think, just like Finland, we have payed time when you give birth. In total 3 months. All people here have Social Health care. It's basic care for your own doctor and the hospital. You pay the resurgence about 140,00 euro each month but they can't regret you the medical basic care.
@@rinaweggelaar5946 same here with healthcare. No one is turned away from a hospital and you don't have to worry about affording ambulance either.
Germany is pretty much the same too
@@lillm6874 Same here in between. Greetings from Sweden❤
"We are the land of the free."
"Which must have come as a surprise to all the slaves." - Philomena Kunk.
Ain't nothing free in your country but the bullchit
@@RexFeral55 Which country would that be?
@@daviddavies3637 Gee David, what country was this all about? Is this veiled indignation or honest curiosity? Tell us the purpose of your inquisition.
@RexFeral55 Gee, Rex, reread your own post and tell me if you think it was clear. Are you thinking I'm American or not? I never mentioned my own nationality. Now, before you try being clever again and having a hissy, try engaging brain. Might help avoid confusion.
The vast, vast majority of people in Europe do not want guns. Its not a thing that matters to most people.
I agree - we have a mainly unarmed police force who have suffered some losses over the years due to gun crime. Every so often there is talk of arming the whole police force but most people do not seem to be keen on the idea. Criminals and paramilitary groups do have guns but usually use them against one another. I’m inclined to the view that having an armed police force would just escalate situations.
@@isoldedoyle3483. If you’re in UK you might be surprised at just how many armed response units there are. 🤷♂️
its why we dont even have school shootings
Most European countries have a mandatory, armed police force.
What are you talking about?
Talk for yourself, Salix. I want to be able to defend myself against "ordinary" criminals as well as against the state.
Ironically 95% of people like you see nothing wrong with the police or military having guns - NPC.
My mum retired and moved into a bungalow at the coast, given to her by the local council/housing association.
She gets a state pension, her rent paid and free prescriptions, delivered to her door for free. Plus free healthcare of course.
I'm so glad she was born in England and not America.
What do you mean "free"? We are being taxed into oblivion to pay for illegal immigrants and healthcare tourists, who get given all the council housing now, who clog up the NHS so nobody can see a doctor or have to wait a year for a procedure. Our healthcare is not free, it is paid for by every taxpayer yet we are the ones who don't get any of the benefits. Also the standard of care is dreadful, all the hospitals are full with long wait times. Everyone knows if you need something done you have to go the private healthcare route now.
@@mouseinthehouse_ We all know full well it's not 'free' , but it _is_ free at the point of use. I live in a fairly poor area of the NW of England and do not recognise the country and systems you describe. I am almost 80, have a beautiful, warm HA garden flat and manage very nicely on a standard pension TYVM. I can get quick appointments with my GP, had eye surgery at a teaching hospital in a major city in 2020, 2022 and earlier this year. There are many immigrants here in East Lancashire and I count increasing numbers among my friends.
@@John-jw8rx I am in a similar siruation. I retired over 15 years ago, I live in a beautiful garden flat - small but perfectly formed! - in an over-55s HA block, with my State Pension, and various other allowances. Neighbours in the surrounding area are kind and friendly, and of course I have my free bus pass to travel wherever I want, when I want. I am fortunate to still be in good health, but I have had several eye surgeries in the past few years , all done promptly by a wonderful team in a huge teaching hospital in the biggest city in the Northwest, with transport door-to-door.
@mouseinthehouse_ free at the point of access. No bill at the end.
My mum has recently been treated for lung cancer and I must say the care she received was excellent. From the diagnosis to the treatment, was superb.
@Sine-gl9ly Yes, some moan (see comment above) but our system is still far better than Americas, they literally get no help at all. Some people don't realise how good we actually have it. No state pension, no housing benefit, no social housing.
Don't pay your rent on a Friday, homeless by Monday.
I'm so glad my mum lives here and not in America.
Someone said in a comment in another vid about freedom something like this: in US people say they are free TO but in Europe we say that we are free FROM - a bad life, bad things...something like that and so true.
We are not jealous of anything in the US anymore, tbh.
Well apart from Trump we desperately need him in 4 1/2 years time to help get rid of the woke bullshit here.
Trump for PM 2029🎉
@@England-Bob
Ha ha ha very funny.
@@England-BobTrump would not be allowed to run for the PM in another country.
Plus he will be facing the rest of his criminal activities in court in 2029.
That's if he is still alive by then.
I‘m jealous of their gas prizes….I am paying 8€ a gallon
@@England-Bob wasnt boris the uk trump? how did that go?
I recently argued with an american who makes gun related videos and he was in the comment secion yappin about the freedom of owning guns in the U.S. I tried to explain that we in Europe CAN have guns too, but we just don't NEED them and not needing guns is a damn good freedom to have. He did not understand. He asked: "What do you mean? You CAN buy guns but you don't want to?". It's as if this concept is really hard to grasp. I gave up after several attemps to explain.
Freedom under responsibility.
This is a direct translation of a swedish saying. (Frihet under ansvar)
The meaning is that freedom comes from accepting responsibility, ie a basic care for others.
Without this acceptance of responsibility, the word is spelled freedoom.
Thats in the danish consitution of 1852... basically legaly translate to.. you can say what you want, but dont blame the mob beating you for it
In the UK, we are definately encouraged to take time off and refresh. I get 35 annual days off a year. Work is not allowed to contact one when off.
yep
Forced to take them at certain jobs others would rather pay you the money and work you into the ground 😅
What is it with Americans and treating the whole of Europe as a monoculture and that we're all alike. It is very ignorant and insulting towards Europeans who have their own unique culture and ways of living
Although EU laws bind European countries in either edges of the continent together by providing the same basic legal framework from Greece to Finland, from Portugal to Iceland and from Spain to Romania. In addition it emanates to other non-EU countries too
Main Character Syndrome
The biggest difference between the US and the EU is that there is a lot more autonomy in the countries in the EU compared to the autonomy of the states in the US, but there are big cultural differences across the inhabitants of the different states too. We in Europe tend to do the same and view all US citizens as similar, while in reality they are perhaps just as diverse as EU citizens.
Still, the lack of general knowledge about the world from most US citizens never ceases to amaze me...
Americans are a product of the education system in America that is grossly underfunded and the teachers feel undervalued. The curriculum that is taught carries an American bias.Pupils are taught nothing about anything outside of America. Hence they have zero social awareness and are willfully ignorant after saying the pledge of allegiance each day at school. They are indoctrinated into cult America and believe that America is the best how wrong they are.
@@jeffafa3096 one other thing that is a big difference, we Europeans embrace and learn from eachother and our differences...
in US its sadly deviding ppl .. its rly sad
It can’t be much of a pledge if you need to re-pledge your allegiance every day. In my opinion once you’ve sworn yiur pledge that should be it.
In my opinion, pledging to a flag is fascist-adjacent and creepy!
It’s not so much a pledge as it is a brain-washing exercise.
Yes, it's called indoctrination and is also how all the Abrahamic religions work.
Conditioning.. doncha love it??
Yep. I pledged my allegiance to the Federal Republic of Germany after basic training in the navy. Once. But then, Americans seem to easily forget which country they are in and have to be reminded by seeing their flag on every corner.
I'm in the UK. I love your attitude Tyler. You personally disprove many American stereotypes by being open to new info and an all round nice guy. The gun thing is big for me. I've lived here all my life and I've never been in fear of gun violence, not for a single second.
he also proves many...
@@Jay-xw9ll same here. Guns are for yanks and on cowboy and Indian films.
@@Enhancedlies many what?
@@fionagregory9147 The many manys, that Americans many
No, he's dumb.
The more I learn about America, the more I'm glad I'm British 🇬🇧
Anything but American tends to be a good thing tbh
You mean the USA, America is a continent of 35 Countries, most of which, I am told, are better than the US.
I feel the same about Norway, too. I always ask people from the US which freedoms they think they have that we don't have in most of Europe. None of them have ever come up with one.
I'm no longer glad I'm British.
Give me Trump anyday over Two Tier Stazi Starmer.
@@ShirleySmith-e4q me too.
Most places you work in the UK will remind you how much holiday you have left towards the end of the year and remind you to take it.
Too bad the salaries are tiny....
@@JoannDaviaw there goes that American ignorance again! Considering our government implements a minimum wage for EVERYONE, I would guess that you're talking out of your arse!
@@JoannDavi It's not the size of your salary that matters , but what you can do with it.
I was made to take mine. Turned up one day and was informed as the end of that day I had to take two weeks off.
@@JoannDavithe US has the second highest average salary in the world. 7 other countries in the ten are European.
On the healthcare subject, the US also has artificially High drug prices due to a lack of regulation which allows the pharmaceutical industry to collude in price fixing.
This is why people smuggle pharmaceuticals from Canada where drugs are more realistically priced. The terrible part is that in America the cost of medication is often many times what the same medicine costs elsewhere, which deprives the poor of medicine and pushes up the cost of health insurance depriving the poor of treatment too. The land of the free? yeah right! The land where the rich are free to exploit the poor.
Some people like abuse. If you can't afford medical treatment in the hospital, then something is not right. I can't call US land of freedom anymore, only land of rich
That is probably the thing that shakes my head even more than the "Free healthcare" thing. How can medicine, and espcecially prescription drugs (that the doctor specifically gave you to get bettter) be given fully to the market to set the price without any regulation?!
The whole "land of the free" only apply to the top 1-5% in the USA, but the common people are too brainwashed to realise it sadly.
I worked for an American finance company for nine months, their abuse of your life was ridiculous, a 37.5 hour contract and 60-70 hours of work to do. Having to get up at 4.00 AM to get to a conference hundreds of miles away a full days work and then a return journey. A frequent SIXTEEN hour day, NO extra pay, a joke.
I know it's shit but hey YOUR FREE. 😅😅😅😮😅😅😅😅
Sounds like legalised slavery.
Regardless of the fact that the UK is not part of the EU anymore, the longer number vacation days, limits on hate speech, good healthcare for all citizens still apply. They didn't just disappear, nor did similar items disappear in the EU. All of the European countries have much better work/life balance rules than the USA (including one item not mentioned - maternity leave).
It's still part of Europe, you muppet. Not every European country is member of the EU. EU is a trade union not a continent. 🤦♀️
Social housing in the UK isn’t free. It’s built by the local authority and is rented by the tenant. That rent is lower than private rentals and people can get help with rental cost if they don’t or can’t work. And yes if you have been in it for a period of time you can buy it for reduced costs as your rent is taken into account. But the criteria for getting a house like this is strictly enforced.
In Germany, you can have guns, but you need to prove, that you have a reason for owning them. Self defense isn't a valid reason for owning a gun, as the law recognizes, that guns are escalators, rather than diminishers, if it comes to violence. In German law, we have something called 'appropriateness', when it comes to defense: If you can defend yourself with words or by walking away, you can't argue, that using a knife or a gun is 'self defense'.
better than canada. here you are not allowed to defend yourself in your own home but are told to leave the house. so what if someone is waiting outside? still cant defend yourself or YOU will be charged with assault or homicide etc.
there recently was a case in austria where a guy shot and wounded an intruder that was attacking his wife and afaik he got no punishment because he followed all the rules
@@Raeffi3 Possible. The laws in Austria are different. It is a different country after all.
our gun laws are rather relaxed
The state has cannons, missiles, tanks and submarines but thinks pistols in the hands of civilians are "escalators"; and even worse - most people accept this idiocy.
It only took 1 mass shooting in the UK to make gun laws stricter. It always feels like in the USA there is no value on life if it doesn't affect certain people.
Years ago I remember arriving at work one Monday morning (in the UK) just in time to see mabagement approach one of my colleagues. They told him HE HAD NOT TAKEN ENOUGH HOLIDAYS this year and needed to use some ASAP. They actually sent him home, there and then, telling him to take the week off and come back next Monday!
Yep, I usually take 1 week off every 8 weeks or so, sometimes wind up taking all of February off just to use up my holiday before the end of the work year lol, I can't even imagine being 'lucky' enough to get 1 week a year.
I’m on 10 days holiday right now because they’d be lost at the end of the year. So yes this happens!
Yup, companies are actually legally required to ensure their workers use their holidays.
I used to work for this big tech company (won't name names, but you're familiar with their fruit logo I'm sure) in the UK via an agency. This was during covid, so people barely took holidays. Come November and they were suddenly saying people are no longer allowed to request time off for December and that you can't carry your remaining holidays to next year. Most people had around ten days of holiday they hadn't taken yet.
I got into a bit of an argument about this with them and they actually just fired me on the spot which I'm pretty sure was illegal, but whatever, I was about to move to another country within a few months anyway after my contract with them would have expired. All my colleagues suddenly got to take their holidays which I'm pretty confident was because I quoted them the literal law about their responsibility over their employees taking their holidays.
In Sweden, we have 5 weeks of holiday per year. The holiday legislation states that the worker is entitled to 4 consecutive weeks of holiday. No employer can change this without reaching an agreement with the employee. In addition, unused vacation can be saved for later years.
How is this not a modern form of slavery to have your employer have the audacity to think you owe them a part of your life.
Uhm, that's the baseline of any work contract. My employer rents my time and knowledge to do stuff for them from me. They're entitled to the contracted time, that's what they pay for.
edit: not from the US btw.
Here in Germany we are legally entitled to 20 working days (4 weeks) of holiday per year, of which at least 2 weeks must be taken consecutively once a year. However, most employees have more holiday than this statutory provision. However, it cannot be less, as your employment contract can never put you in a worse position than the statutory provision allows.
When I heard about the "Freedom Convoy" in Canada, my initial reaction was one of surprise. Why are Americans coming to Canada to protest their issues? In Canada, we seldom discuss freedom because there is no need to talk about it when it is already present.
🍁😊 Exactly.
what?? the freedom convoy was wholly canadian and had little to do with the us. are you new?
@@lindaostrom570 It was..(though there was much participation from the States including funding) but there's no need to correct in a nasty way.
@@lindaostrom570 Not new. I'm 75 Years old and have lived in Canada since birth. I'm just hard to lie to without getting caught.
Nobody on their death bed ever said " I wish I'd spent more time at work."
Except Mericans 👍
When I worked, I'm 72 now and retired, I worked for the DHSS and we had a thing called flextime. This meant that you could come in early go home late and mount up your hours. once you hit your statutory hours, usually 35 per week you could take what ever excess you worked in lieu. It was great. So if you wanted a week you just came in early and went home late for 4-5 weeks and you got a week off that did not cut into your holiday time.
I have cancer and my oncologist told me that they treat to 100+ . The treatment is second to none. When I was on chemo and working (I have had it twice) I had a full year off and got full pay. I have never paid for any medical care in Britain ever and I thank the NHS they have kept me alive. I would not have it any other way.
I feel so sorry for you American chasing the "America Dream* that you can never have.
You paid your whole life for medical care. That's what NI and Tax is for.
@@whatwhatyep Very true but it comes out of your wages, so you don't notice. Also if you do get sick and need time in hospital or expensive meds, you aren't going to bankrupt yourself. You're certainly not going to die because your insurance won't cover your treatments.
For me, as German, my freedom of speech ends, once i violate someone other´s personal rights. We have some other exceptions on top, like the deny of the Holocaust or waving Nazi symbols, for example.
It´s funny, how US citizens are so obsessed with rights, while they almost lost most of them - especially when it comes to worker´s rights. The USA is so self orientated, while in Europe it´s more about the freedom in the whole community and respect, often pushed by general rules (doesn´t even needs laws, in the most cases).
I mean, this wouldn´t work in the selfish US, you can´t even follow simple rules in the traffic - the fast lane doesn´t really exist in the US and noone stays on the right lane at all. 😝
In Europe, the housing zones are usually mixed as well - rich meets the poor and they interact and celebrate together. I love this fact, not to mention the beautiful cities, grown over the centuries and not designed in blocks, like a LEGO-world.
Very well said! 👏👏👏🇬🇧
Yes, strange isn't it that Americans can wave swastika flags and wear nazi symbols.... Freedom of speech to the max. And now they voted trump as president again who's going to destroy democracy in America in total....
An exhausted employee is a useless, and potentially very dangerous, employee. Mistakes can lead to harm or even death due to exhaustion. That's why in Europe we value and respect time-off to relax and recharge so performance levels, and safety levels, are kept higher.
The American work experience sounds horrendous.
Boeing vs Airbus, the one where the doors fall off the aeroplane in flight is the one made in the USA by sometimes exhausted workers!
I’m in the U.K. and I live in social housing. I’m disabled. We pay rent, it’s just lower than if we paid a landlord, and the council does any adaptations I need. We are a little pocket in my village. 9 bungalows. All for disabled. And it’s in the nicest area of my village.
In the US you would be homeless.
They treat their citizens appallingly.
In Oslo, Norway social housing can be very expensive. I worked for a guy with MS, of course he needs a bigger apartment for his assistants etc. 15k nok he paid for 1 bedroom and one open plan livingroom/kitchen.
To us Swedes/Nordics/Europeans, much of your concept of freedom is difficult, bordering on impossible to understand at all.
Let me give two examples:
The freedom to bear arms: We instead have the freedom from arms. My angry neighbor doesn't have an assault gun in the closet, the "road rager" I confronted yesterday didn't have a Sig Sauer 38 in the glove compartment and our cops don't have to first hand fear that the drunk driver they stopped has two guns under the seat.
Oh, we absolutely have the right to own guns. What is needed is training, a gun license issued by the police authorities PLUS a valid reason such as a hunting license or a membership in a shooting club, home guard or similar.
The weapon(s) must at all times be stored separately from ammunition and in an approved burglar-proof gun cabinet.
The right to property: About a year ago, I explained in a completely different comment in another channel what the Swedish "allemansrätten" is.
In a couple of responses from the US, it was loudly criticized. ”The Right to Property = happiness" is even older than the Constitution (less than 250 years 🤷).
So let me explain a little. "Allemansrätten" is not a collection of laws here (in fact most of it is not codified) but what is called "Urminnes Hävd" (≈ claimed from times immemorial).
Oh yes, we can all own, use and exploit property and land here (in fact the absolute majority of land in Sweden is privately owned).
What we can’t do is to dictate and enforce to everybody else exactly what they can and cannot do on that land.
This is instead outlined in "Allemansrätten". These rights include, among other things the right to stay everywhere in nature (there are of course limitations to guarantee privacy), the right to pick wild berries, mushrooms, flowers and fallen nuts and many other things.
No, it is definitely not allowed to put up signs like "No Trespassing - Trespassers will be shot".
To me, things like these this are true freedom, no guns, no barbed wire fences, no exclusion, in autumn lots of Swedes in the forest, equipped with berry pickers and mushroom baskets without having to worry about breaking any local or private laws.
This is the single best way I've ever heard this said - "We instead have the freedom from arms." Something we Canadians think all the time. On his Canadian channel last week Tyler learned about Canadian gun laws and actually said shooting someone is justified if they try to break into your home.. The 'stand your ground' law doesn't exist in Canada and the fact that Americans can shoot someone who steps onto their property is insane.
@hrafnatyr9794 Tala för dig själv. Du är korkad. Innan 1934 fanns det överhuvudtaget inte vapenlicenser i Sverige. De flesta vapenlagar i Europa kom till under 1900-talet för att förebygga väpnade uppror, alltså för att hålla folket kuvat. Är det något de har rätt i i USA är det att vapenägande ska vara en odiskutabel rättighet.
Du har INTE en rättighet att äga vapen, om du äger dem på statens villkor.
"Allemansrätten" is usually named "freedom to roam" in English which allows anyone to go anywhere (with some limitations). Basically owning a piece of land does not limit people from walking/camping there... But you can't harm crops or camp for long.
It could be that the US Govt do NOT want you to KNOW about a different lifestyle - just in case everyone leaves the USA for any other country, because MOST other country are free-er than YOU ARE.... AND even if you do emigrate to another country YOU will still be expected to PAY US TAXES. So MAYBE its the loss of Taxes they FEAR rather than the loss of Citizens....
The International Revenue Squad will find you!😼
@@AltCutTV Unless you find another country that treats you so much better, then you can renounce your US Citizenship and take out a European Citizenship thereby avoiding to pay a Tax in a country you do not reside or have a Citizenship in
@@user-TonyUK But you have to pay a lot to renounce your US Citizenship.
@@djtwo2 Then its down to you to work out which is cheapest in the long run, pay X ammount of $ or pay tax on your salary that you earned outside of USAs area of control.
@@user-TonyUK There's a financial penalty for doing that, $2,350. And some tax gotchas for people with serious money.
If you don't use up all your vacation days, you might end up in a situation where you can sue your company for not providing you with the mandated vacation days. So if you have vacation days left, and it is only three months left of the year, and you have not requested any vacation for those days, your manager might have a talk with you about using up your vacation days before the end of the year, to avoid any potential lawsuit.
This differs a little from country to country. In some countries, vacation days can be carried over into the next year, or converted into money. However, many companies don't want the hassle, so they will at least send you a reminder email to please plan your remaining vacation days for the year, once you enter the fourth quarter.
I work in the UK for a well-known US courier company and get 27 days holiday a year. I just sold 5 days back as didn't get around to using them. And I work an average of 30 hours a week. So it's obviously possible for them to do it in the US.
You get it because - being based in the UK - THEY HAVE TO OBEY UK LAW
A European dweller here. America doesn't strike me as a very attractive proposition at all. I have more freedom living over here and I won't get shot.
The main difference is that we have responsibilities and rules with our freedoms, being a Dane, the right to be a citizen, to vote, to own a gun, to drive a car and many others, comes with rules and is considered a privilege, that has to be worked and studied for. A simple example; if you witness an accident, you MUST aid the victims. If you do nothing, you will face being charged by the state.....Being ignorant isn't an excuse, it's the citizens duty to be informed about the existing rules and regulations. If you stand before a judge and say "I didn't know that", is definitely not to your defense advantage....I've seen so many US tourists behaving in traffic here, as if they were at home in the US, getting up in the face of the local police about their rights...guess who always lost that argument. Also; a happy worker is a productive worker....And as an American, you should ask yourself why the US is the ONLY industrialized country without a state run healthcare system....
You know you’re free when there’s no debate to be had, no questions that need answering and everything is normal.
Imagine, theres no country, no religion too....they may say you`re a dreamer!
@ What a pleasant dream.
I sometimes think American has very few rights to be able to live a normal life unless your rich and and that is not freedom without worry but the top people don’t want to spend money on you
18:25 not encouraged, but totally normal.
France is able to be more productive than Japan while working between 35 and 45 hours per week. Spending time with our family, having tike for ourselves on the weekends, taking care of our health allows us to perform better the next day. The faster you heal, the faster you can work efficiently. The more you could rest for the weekend, the more energy you have for work
Aside from general leave days most jobs in the UK have Volunteer time off (VTO) days too, this is an employer benefit that enables employees to take paid leave (usually a few days per year) and spend this time volunteering with a charity or non-profit organisation. Some also give you a free day off on your birthday.
awesome 👍👍
We have free day off for blood donors and four days per year of so called day off on demand - you don't have to justify it, don't need doctor's note, nothing. And you can take it even 5 mins before you start your work.
Your "amendments" are the amendments from what the UK began since Magna Carta in 1215.
You can't even spell amendments.
@fionagregory9147 Fiona. Indeed I do. Not everyone has spell checker activated and the best of people may hit keys on a small keyboard on a mobile phone when rushing to get ready. As you have pointed an error out, I will amend! Leaving it so would be a mistake and in the company of yourself that would be such a terrible thing. If that's the best you can do. You've a sad existence my dear. 😊
@fionagregory9147 Amended. You feel better?
@@fionagregory9147 Or Colour?
@@fionagregory9147 irrelevant, that's not an argument proving them wrong. The very fact that the U.S amendments exist literally proves that they can be changed, and yet you attack each other over a requested change.
One thing that really shocked me the first time I visited the US was the number of elderly people I saw working quite menial jobs (I mean people who looked like they were approaching 70+). It would be interesting to hear what the state pension/disability allowance is in the US. In the UK you can work in your 70s if you choose to but it’s not typical.
A lot of them actually choose to. They have worked their whole lives. They go stir crazy with nothing to do.
@@91GT347 Traveling? Hobbies? Learning new things? There is so much things to do beside just job. Kinda sad...
@@NagadirGame Agree. I've been retired over 15 years and I am as busy, or busier, than I ever was when I was working, all with things I _choose_ to do!
@@91GT347 Yes but I’m talking about hard jobs - housekeeping, shop work, etc. Things generally better suited to fit/healthy people. I’m not saying people in their 70s/80s shouldn’t work if they choose to, but the number I saw certainly made me think many of them are working because they have to. Let’s be honest, most bored retirees with a healthy pension volunteer in much more pleasant jobs!
@Sine-gl9ly I am young but I feel like I would need 20 lives to be able to do everything I want
Yeah, having your employer question you and give you grief for take vacation is ridiculous! Living in Saskatchewan, Canada, I have never experienced that. This past summer I took two weeks off to go on a raod trip to the B.C. mountains with my kids. It's something that we do every year. We camped, hiked, visited museums, saw interesting sights. I even booked off two weeks during the Christmas holidays to visit with family, friends, and attend a wedding. I work for a video production company that, like most businesses, appreciate having a work/life balance. I also get 12 days a year as personal days to use however I wish! Although I usually never use it. It's more for unseen emergencies. 🇨🇦👍🏼
In the place where I worked for 20 years, they massively motivated you to take holiday, because if you DIDNT, at the end of the year they would have to pay you for the days you didnt take, which they really didnt want to do.
I am being pestered by the management where I work (a government building) right now as it is close to the end of the year, to take my holidays so they can "close the books". And apparently they don't take no for an answer.
But they pay you either way so that doesn't make much sense to complain about
@@JJ-ps2ec I dont mean its paid holiday, so you are being paid either way, they had to compensate you for working instead of taking holiday. So it was like doing overtime pay.
all new housing estates being built in UK HAVE to include some affordable housing, shared ownership housing (pay mortgage and rent on the rest to the council etc), social housing and everything from 1-5 bed homes/apartments, you cannot just build large family homes. you also have to build green space and depending where you build, you also have to include local ammenities like a little row shops, bus stops, nurseries (kindergarten) and even schools
In the UK we have easy access to guns….you just need to get hold of the potatoes, caps or water to load them
I legally own 10 firearms and none of them shoot potatoes caps or water I think your talking about children mate
@@stoneoutdooradventures2286No, he's saying that you can easily acquire a gun without checks even as children, but the dangerous stuff is only available with actual checks and controls in place.
@@stoneoutdooradventures2286 The irony obviously flew right over your head. 🙄🙄
@LowPlainsDrifter60 irony.. nope don't see it your right..phew over my head
What he said …… obviously you have a German sense of humour 🤣
Freedom and rights. The limits are extremely self explanatory in Europe: my freedom ends where tours begin. Example: you can have an absolute blast of a party, but don't expect me being friendly if you keep me awake after a certain hour if I have to work the next day. This logic of empathy to heavily populated areas is necessary to keep the murder rate down
Taking time off (for vacation as you call it in the US) isn't only encouraged, it's mandatory here in Norway. I have for some reason a few vacation days that I carry over from year to year until I finally get to take them. Every year I get 25 more days (and it's one more day extra for each year after you fill 60). I also get to take paid time off when I get sick, and for a day or two I don't even have to go and get a doctor's note to send to my employer.
So yes, as the guy says, "we don't live to work, we work to live".
And this also goes back to the first lie, I have the *freedom* to not work myself to death, and my employer gets a more efficient worker who isn't burned out. Win-win, but it's sure a hard pill to swallow if your idea of freedom is to get an assault rifle and take it with you to the supermarket or even a school.
I lost EVERYTHING bc of lack of healthcare in the states. I’m grateful my husband was from N Ireland bc that’s where he had to go bk to for cancer treatment. Dr’s even make home visits! I left when the orange toddler got in bc I knew my husband would never have the healthcare he needed in the states.
I had a a major stroke last year & do you know what the bill was for the ambulance, 5 wks in hospital, 4 months home physio 3 times a week & follow up care? NOTHING!
I’m glad to be out of the states! I’m free to have a actual life now & not constantly spinning the plates!
I live in what is known as social housing. I'm not exactly poor but I cannot afford to own my own home. My neighbourhood has a mixture of social housing and owner occupier housing
@@janinshirley that's good.
@@fionagregory9147 Some years ago the government of the day brought in a scheme where tenants of some social housing would have the right to buy their homes at a discount, only problem with the scheme was that money made from the sales wasn't made available for new social housing to be built as a result there is a shortage. In my case I had to retire due to ill health so no mortgage company would lend me any money if I wanted to buy a home
I suspect that Tyler does not know exactly what social housing is in the UK. So let's put him straight. It is reasonable housing that the local council owns and the occupiers rent from the council, usually at a lot lower cost than private landlord costs. My mum lived in social housing as a child until she got married. She had seven siblings and the house they had (is still standing) was 3 bedrooms but the children's ages were spread over 20 years so at one point (I was talking to an aunt yesterday) they had the four youngest sharing a double bed in one of the rooms, topped and tailed as it was called. It was enough to live, maybe a bit cramped, within your means if you were/are on a low to average wage. There are usually waiting lists held by the councils of people wanting to get into them so they are clearly a popular option.
@@martinconnelly1473 All social housing in my area are owned by Housing associations/ social enterprises with rents at ,market value
I live in social housing, rented from a housing association rather than the local council. The majority of social housing is run by them now as the councils sold a lot of their properties a few years ago.
I think I am right in saying that all new housing estates have to allot 10% of the properties to social housing by law.
Death panel is what we have in the form of private health insurance co.
The insurance company decides if you get to have your doctor recommended treatment covered.
I live on a new "posh" housing estate in the UK. there are a few houses for the less fortunate, but it is not broadcast. No one knows who they are. Because it's not important.
There are two aspects about the US that I find both fascinating, and a bit disturbing:
1. The use of the word "benefits", to describe things like vacation time, parental leave, etc. Yes these things are beneficial to the individual employee, but calling them benefits makes it sound like your benevolent CEO has, out of the goodness of their heart, bestowed upon you this great gift. In practically all of the western world, and many non-western countries as well, these things aren't called benefits, they are called rights. Language matters.
2. The way many Americans seem so outraged that their tax dollars could potentially be used to pay for healthcare/food stamps/education/housing/etc., for someone who didn't work as hard as they did, made the wrong decisions in life, became ill, or whatever other reasons caused them to need help. It seems so incredibly divorced from compassion, and a sense of community. But at the same time many of these people are very religious, and supportive of the idea of charity. Someone from the US pointed out to me that they are willing to help the less fortunate, but only if they choose to do so; hence all the charity fundraisers. So it's like this weird amalgamation of "keep your hands off my stuff" - "I should share some of my stuff with people who have less stuff" - "god forbid anyone tries to organize sharing of stuff, because that is communism".
Fun-fact: In Germany it's illegal to have no Health Insurrance. And if you can't afford it, the goverment jumps in and pays for it and you'll get the Healt Insurrance for free! :)
One way I heard it put recently is that Americans want to have "freedom to" do something. Freedom to own guns, freedom to talk smack, etc. Whereas in Europe we value our "freedom from" bad stuff: freedom from being abused, freedom from egregious medical debt, freedom from being shot by a stray bullet, freedom from being exploited, etc.
24:00 Tyler, yes that's more or less what was being said, it was also said that those types of panels exist in Europe, because of 'Free' Healthcare.
The argument is you don't want the government deciding what treatment(s) could be available.
In the US the government does not decide this, your Health Insurance Company does
Letting the health insurance company decide isn't working out very well is it?
It does not exixt those type of panels in Europe :P
@@patrikwennergren6796 As I Understand it.
The panels as described are not (and have never been ) in operation.
In UK, the nearest equivalent is NICE, which is a panel which looks at various treatments (normally new), and if they don't work, or work no better than a placebo they are not offered, or if they are very expensive for not much benefit (something like a 5-10% chance of cure, where more conventional option gives10% chance), then they are not normally offered.
Our NHS system works alongside private/insurance based systems such as BUPA, it is rare that an insurance will cover something that NICE has declined, but you can probably pay privately.
NICE is based on the treatment not the patient (in general) as I understand it .
A problem with this system is that some conditions ( MS for instance) are more likely to give positive results with placebos.
FROM ENGLAND HERE..... I ... I dont get a gun because i dont need one ....I Live in a bungalow rented to me by the local council in a really nice area .... WE look at family time it keeps employees keen to work .... IM nearly 70 with a grown up Daughter and two beautiful grandchildren who visit me at least 3 times a week .....WE the people in england look after our older generation .... everyone gets treated the same ....YOU Pledge your life to a government wow thats strange ... LOOK BACK TO HITLER AND THE THIRD REICH
Americans pledge their life to their nation, not the government.
Where does one stop and the other start? The amount of calls to jail those who criticise Trump....@mattg56
@@mattg56Not if Donny gets his way.
@@mattg56 it is still a weird thing, it's indoctrination - like when schoolkids in the British Empire had to salute the flag and sing the National Anthem (God Save the King) every Monday morning
They were still doing that in state schools in Australia when i went there in the 1970's - as an 11 year old British kid I was mystified as to why a school in an independent nation on the otherr side of the world was doing this
As a Pommie kid fresh off the boat, I didn't understand why Aussie kids thought this was normal
If you look back in history, Hitler took this one stage further, and school kids in Nazi run schools (which was basically all of them) were taught and encouraged to report their parents and family members if they said or did anything the Nazi party didn't approve of
@mattg56 you pledge your life and allegence to whomever is running your country we don't do that
Brit here. It's really refreshing to watch your reactions to this kind of stuff. I like how you go into these almost blind and respect the other cultures. You even give your input and are willing to learn about this stuff. I have seen the ignorance of other reaction channels, not only from your side of the pond but also British reaction channels, that just sit there and say, "Well, that's a stupid thing," and I commend you for that.
Thank you!
I love the confusion for Americans who can’t comprehend the existence of a healthcare system that could be about keeping people healthy, rather than existing to make huge profits for someone.
US: You have freedom to behave whichever way you like.
EU: You have freedom from people behaving whichever way they like😅
(I'm obviously being dramatic, but the foundation of the argument is true😅).
City planning engineer here from the EU living in the UK. It is partially true the UK is trying for at least in the last 15-20 years to build social housing in areas commonly populated by middle class people. Not sure how much success we can measure currently if you do not try also to elevate the schooling system with it. On the other hand I have spent 3 years in the US in New York and Chicago studying social erosion done by the misfortune of careless city planning. The results were clear. The UK's approarch is more humanistic and carry a great promise with further development meanwhile the US's approach is more speculative on financial gain as soon the poor areas declared to be demolished and buy them out for cheap. You could call it a scam or a scheme.
In Slovenia, there is a minimum of 20 days of vacation (4 weeks), after which there are additional days of vacation for education, working conditions and length of service, the company is legally obliged for workers use at least two weeks of vacation for each employee. In addition, we have 15 working days off national holidays, but every year a few fall on the weekend.
I heard something absolutely bonkers from an US friend that her health insurance refused her support on her meds because she and her adult children earn too much. You won't find anywhere in Europe that your adult children are included when calculating any financial support from your health insurance. Unheard of.
I'd say the lie that US is more patriotic than other countries should be added there. Most Americans seem to think there is only one way to show patriotism and commonly mistake nationalism for patriotism.
The top lie Americans seem to believe though that Europe is one culture, laws, belief and ideology is something that should be addressed first. Europe and the UK are many different countries and they all have their own thoughts, ways of doing things, laws, etc. Europe is a continent Not a country! That being said there are for the most part some common beliefs, perspectives and ways of doing things that many (again not all) generally have in common and I think this is what this guy was presenting.
I'm in the Netherlands, I had 26 overtime days on my timesheet and in October my manager told me to take those days off before the Christmas vacation, and I did.
I'm from Poland and I was indeed scolded by my boss once or twice for not using up all my vacation days. I get 26 days od vacation (which together with national holidays makes a total of 39 days off work a year). If I don't use it all up it transfers to the next year and you are supposed to use up the extra before 30 of September. If you forget the company gets upset.
Social housing is for people who can't afford to buy a house or can't afford "free market" rent prices. It's often older and disabled people who are on some kind of welfare program.
This is because the amount of welfare per month is about the same as the "free market" rent prices. So that's not affordable as you will not have money to eat, electricity, heating or anything else.
I live in social housing and it's a cute little house. It's almost 100 years old and the housing association tried to insulate it as good as possible. It has a tiny garden. You could house 2 and 1 child here but that would be cramped. (though 100 years ago there would be mother, father and 5 kids or so in one of these houses.)
Also. the netherlands has a 36 or 38 hour workweek. Unless there are emergency situations, overtime is discouraged. Your pay is good enough to just have one fulltime job and you'll be able to live, rent or buy. Your healthinsurance doesn't depend on your job. As a disabled person i have the same health insurance as my neighbour who works 38 hours a week. Exactly the same.
Death panels. Well that's what they have the the USA as you don't have general healthcare. You have your insurars who determine if you get it covered. So either you go completely broke, or.. well you die. So I would say that the USA has deathpanels who are in charge of the private health insurance.
The netherlands everybody is covered. Period.
I think the issue if american notion freedom is a very unfettered individualism while on the other side of the pond is bit more communitarian
Agreed, I think to an American the word freedom means "Free to do what I want" where as over here in the UK it's "Free from being shat upon"
Where I work in Canada, I have 10 years with the company and I have 5 weeks of holidays. You are no good to your company when you are burnt out.
Here in Australia, many workers get "leave loading" when taking leave from work. It's a "bonus" of 17.5% on top of a base salary for the duration of the time you take off. It started as a way to compensate employees for not being able to do overtime when on leave. So that's 17.5% extra for the 4weeks leave you're legally entitled to. Now it's seen more as a bonus for taking your leave entitlement.
Whenever I hear an American saying that they wouldn't want to move to Europe because there's no free speech, this is interpreted as, "I want to be able to say hateful things and for there to be no consequences for doing so." Because if you don't say anything worth being prosecuted for, why would you care about the potential for being prosecuted for the things you say?
In Denmark, we have the right to 6 weeks of holiday and you get either holiday pay or full salary during the period you are on holiday.
Oh, another thing. In my last job I had 30 days leave per year plus about an extra 9 days public holiday. Sick days, as many as you need for serious illness. single days 10+ commonly referred to as duvet days because you just can't get your shit out of bed. btw, I'm British, the rules throughout Europe are more generous.
About US being seen as weird as far as work demands are concerned:
In Australia, before I retired, the standard for my Award was 4 weeks recreation leave a year, and if you didn't take a year's leave by the 3rd year after it accrued then you were required to be on leave - as in, you were paid the leave bonus and were officially on leave even if you came in. It had been decided by the experts that, like taking tea breaks and lunch breaks, productivity dropped if the leave wasn't taken.
I remember reading that in WWII military manufacture, people wanted to keep working through the breaks. Trouble was, correcting mistakes made from loss of concentration etc. when work was continuous actually lowered the weekly output. So they were ordered to take tea and meal breaks as a way to support the war effort!
Similarly, failure to take recreation leave leads to burnout, increased illness, and distraction by family problems.
We also have sick leave which builds up, 2 weeks full pay and 2 weeks half pay each year in my award. Useful if you got cancer after 10 years of service without much sickness! The rule is 10 days as national minimum (pro rata for part time) - remember, coming to work while unfit drops productivity and can spread disease.
Casual staff get 25% added pay in lieu of leave, so they can save up to cover missed shifts.
I don't remember which video it was, but someone said that in The USA it's all about having "freedom to do something" (to own guns, to say whatever they want, to fire people whenever they want etc), while in Europe it's more about "freedom from something" (freedom from hate speech, freedom from exploitation, freedom from the fear of losing everything if you get sick or lose your job). It's both about freedom but still very different concepts.
I've seen the video too and being from Europe, France myself it's true.
I really enjoyed your thoughtful reaction to this video, Tyler. Thanks for making it. I do hope you can travel to the UK one day - you'd be very welcome! PS. React more to Scotland.
About "death panels" in Europe.
I live in Poland - relatively poor country of Europe when you compare it to Germany, France and especially Nordic countries. My mom had cancer - very awful one. At some point doctors told my dad that there's no chance - it's a matter of a month more less. However they told my dad that they were keep her in hospital, give her chemo and medicines and generally take care of her. Chances were next to zero and they knew that, openly said that but were treating her as they seen any chances. They said that miracles happens sometimes so they always fight to the very end. Of course neither my dad or hospital crew told that to my mom. It's the worst thing you can do. This is why my mom lived to the very last day fighting and thinking she has a chance. Not taking hope from her. Chances were of course but next to zero. Point is that hospital spare funds to treat her even if it was lost cause.
Eventually doctors where right and my mother died almost exactly month later. It's even stupid to talk about money now but that was the point of the video. As you can expect our "medical bill" was exactly $0 because here there's no such thing as medical bill.
So yes - death panels exists - but only in America throught insurance companies.
Ironically I'm writing this comment exactly at the day (or maybe day after) when some hitman shoot to death a CEO of the biggest health insurance company in America. I'm wondering what was a motiviation of the shooter. A death panel over his wife maybe? Or maybe his kid?
Re-think your "freedom" America because right now you look like bunch of fools buying cheap crap from your goverment thinking you're "free". Instead you're sitting there and scratching your head why whole rest of the world is making fun of you at every possible point.
Honestly you're not different from Russians thinking that Putin actually cares for Russian citizens. The difference is that some Russians knows it's bullshit but in America everyone (regardless of party) still belives in this American bullshit.
In the UK, until the Tories sold them all off as part of their Regan inspired "free market", there used to be what were known as "council houses". These were built and owned by the local council, and rented out fairly cheaply to low-income families. They were always good quality houses, and usually well looked after, and people liked living in them.
And yes, the work/life balance in the UK and Europe is so much better than in the US, with legal minimums for holidays, etc.
As for "death panels", they don't exist in Europe or the UK, and never have done, but you do have them in the US in the form of the insurance companies. So that's a case of taking an American trait and trying to project it onto somewhere else as a bad thing.
This may be true in parts of the UK but certainly not as a whole. I am a tenant rep. with Hull City Council where we still have over 22,000 Council houses. There are also several Regulated Social Landlords (RSL's) who also provide properties to rent at affordable prices.
One thing we in Social Housing also benefit from is tight regulation on housing standards and where I live it is nearly always the privately owned properties that are in the worst condition.
Council housing still exists and you need to point out that the right to buy scheme was so that existing tenants could purchase the home they had been renting, in many cases for decades. It enabled thousands of people to become home owners who had never even dreamed that might be possible for them. The mistake was I’m not using the money from the sales to replace the housing that was sold.
8:47 "The most open gun laws in the world" ... With the example of it not being regulated at all as it is very easy to get a gun in the US. So, the 'laws' are not to protect citizens against those guns, they are there to make sure people can buy guns,whether they are part of a regulated militia or not (In the US usually not). The right to bear arms is more important to many Americans than preventing people from being killed by them. It is however positive that most Americans are for red flag laws and background checks. Too bad politicians don't get it done because the gun lobby owns them. Don't understand why you Americans don't get furious at those politicians and make them do their jobs for the majority of the American people!
I'm Norwegian and a gun owner. As are many of my friends, my brother in law and his family. My cousin is a bona fide gun nut, and he takes no offense when we call him that, unlike some USAians ;) He's the kind of guy who posts gun videos on RUclips.
But it *is* highly regulated. For which I'm glad.
Same in Germany. We have 5 million guns being stored separately from the ammo in real ammunition lockers that need to be licensed and locked.
Getting a gun license takes time, money and a white vest with police. I like it!
Regarding the topic of 'freedom of speech/expression' is that in the US, it is not illegal to say those things. You can get sued, and get in some other problems, but in Europe (mostly) it is illegal! You don't need to get sued. You may even get jail time, depending on what you said/claimed. You may say whatever you want, as long as that doesn't interfere with the liberty of others to exist peacefully.
On that line, but not so extensive, the way American politicians talk about each other, and the crazy and offesinse stuff they say, like we've seen, it's unheard of Europe. NO ONE would speak of a rival that way, calling names and stuff. Even if it's not a crime, it would be so shamefull, nobody would do it.
In the UK some places are trialing a 4 day working week! ( you do the same hours in the week but have 4 slightly longer days to get an extra day off work).
I did some nightshifts like that once, 4 nightshift's per working week. When I retired we could work extra hours and build up time off in lieu (TOIL) if your job suited it. You could easily build up extra Mondays or Fridays to get a long weekend. Adding a day on to a bank holiday weekend for a four day weekend was popular.
"........... encouraged to take time off" here in the UK and Europe you have to take your time off, I was only allowed to 'carry to carry over' 5 days from one year to another. Also time off is with full pay!
When I was still working, I had 8 weeks of paid vacation, and twice a year my employer organized a day of relaxation for us, where we didn't work but spent the working day eating and going out together.
in our country, you need to have at least 18 certified shooting range visits a year (and a clean record) to contain your gun.. if its less you have to give up your gun. You have to go to the police station every year to show the official records. you can`t buy a gun just because you are 21or 18..( i don`t know the age in the USA ) and have it the rest of your life. In our country it`s called a shooting sport, if you don`t take the sport serious you will be kicked out if you have less than 18 visits a year.
Tyler: Homework for you: Watch 2 of Michael Moores documentaries: Where to invade next(2015) about what other nations can offer, meaning what good ideas do they have, that should be brought home to the USA, and Sicko(2007) started to cover healthcare, but goes further into other social benefits for all citizens.
What happens if you become ill long term or lose your job in the US? In Europe you will get benefits, which you are entitled to as you pay for the with taxes, to cover expenses, rent and or mortgage. This means you will not know if your neighbours are on benefits.
Death panels. Is that why the CEO of the healthcare insurance firm just got sh*t. In Manhattan?
19:28 Yes this is true! It is a small trial. If I remember correctly it’s for nurses. And during June, July and August the employers have to give you three weeks vacation that is in a row. During the month of July many companies can force you to take your vacation days because the business closes so they can’t provide any work assignments and you have no colleagues a work during those weeks. There’s a minimum of 25 vacation days per year that you get and they are paid by your employer and you can only save 5 of those days til another year.🇸🇪
There are currently only two countries with the Pledge of Elegance worldwide: the USA and North Korea
Elegance? Lol. If you mean pledge allegiance to flag/country, well you’ve got the Phillipines, South Korea, Bahamas, Mexico.. North Korea isn’t even on the list but they may do something of the sort.
Elegance 💅
The moment he said “6 lies america told me about europe” the only thing i tought was: only 6?
Don't forget the first list of rights for the population against tyrant kings was the Magna Carta, in England in 1215. The first 'Bill of Rights' also came from Britain, in 1689 in the Glorious Revolution that made the Constitutional Monarchy, with Parliament in charge. Also the American Constitution, & Declaration of Independence were created by British colonists, out of 17th century English principles, coming out of Civil wars. Social housing here in the UK is not free to poor people. It is houses that a built by local authorities that people rent, but can also buy in part or whole. The 28 days off in Europe are paid leave, by law. Also you are entitled to all the time you need for illness, injury or sick leave, also for the most part paid by the employer. I once took my son out of a school when I found them trying to indoctrinate the kids in Catholic dogma at 5 years of age, because it's meaningless to a young child, & just making then conform without knowing.
You forgot the Country PAYS a monthly Pension from the Taxes you pay on your wages from your first job until your last job, in my case I started my first paid employment at 16 and retired at 67. My Pension is better than my last PAID employment, and if you are Poor they will pay your Housing Rent and City Taxes (Council Tax)
You are mistaken when it comes to vacation days…..in Germany, mandatory number is 24, not 28
@@lynnm6413it varies from country to country. In England it’s a basic of 21 days holidays +7 bank holidays (although you can actually take the bank holidays off when you want, effectively making it 28).
While it’s not the law many companies will give extra holidays for length of service.
@@danielriley7380 interesting that you count the bank holidays towards the vacation days.
In Germany every state has different religious days off, depending if they are more Protestant or Catholic.
Bavaria still honors most of the religious days so they get off the most in 🇩🇪…they always need an extra Wurst! 😉
@ years ago bank holidays could be taken as holidays as a default plus 21 statutory holidays. If businesses wanted staff to work bank holidays they either had to offer a higher rate of pay or add a day to their holiday entitlement.
When the law changed to effectively be included in total holidays some businesses still offered the higher rate if you didn’t take the day but it wasn’t the norm for small businesses, just larger businesses and public sector jobs.
In the UK, social housing is spred because when a group of houses is buildt, a pourcentage is buildt for social hiusing by law. Then the families can buy its house with the " rent", little by little, so that the house stays in good care by the owner....
Well, number 1 isn't true. Bush was talking about the middle east in that speech, not Europe. No one here hates you for your freedoms. That's just nonsense.
the clip wasn't a true representation ... but there are some freedoms that european countries have that some americans do not like. a large emphasis on SOME US Citizens. I do not believe most USA citizens feel this way.
The US bill of rights came long after the UK bill of rights 1689.
The Magna Carta (1215) is the basis for the common law process in UK _and_ America.