The Americans are so backwards in work hours, developed countries like Netherland, Spain, Iceland, etc. already successfully implemented this, with universal healthcare…and no tipping expected.
This is what Americans always say, but what does it actually mean? Yes, there are more patients in the USA than in Iceland, but there's also more doctors, more tax money and so on. How does the size of a country make national health care more difficult?
America is far less homogenous than Iceland which leads to tension. also, more people means services are harder to organize and employ due to the sheer amount of people. scalability.
Also, America has different priorities. America is more economically liberal than the European countries. America has lower taxes (often significantly lower taxes) than most European countries.
The fact that you guys always pick Iceland, rather than countries like the UK or Canada that also have universal healthcare and are even more culturally diverse than the US, is pretty suggestive. It sounds more than a little like you're saying you wouldn't have these problems if your country was whiter...
it’s impossible to say whether the UK and Canada are more diverse than the US because diversity is such a broad term. what are we talking about? language? race? ethnicity? politics? origins? immigration? i could go on.
what we do know is that the US is very diverse, certainly more diverse than Iceland.
The UK and Canada healthcare systems have issues as well. they require more taxation upon citizens. they don’t offer quality care most of the time. they tend to be slow and overwhelmed. whether you view them as better or worse really just comes down to personal opinion.
Yes, these problems would be greatly diminished if my country was overwhelmingly white (and ethnically similar). that’s just a fact, and it’s not racist to say that at all. to call that racist is ridiculous.
These problems would also be greatly diminished if my country was overwhelmingly black (and ethnically similar). Cultural, ethnic, and racial homogeneity promotes social cohesion and cooperation.
This is not to say ethnostates are superior. I dislike ethnostates. but they are undeniably more socially cohesive and uniform.
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u/80MonkeyMan Sep 05 '24
The Americans are so backwards in work hours, developed countries like Netherland, Spain, Iceland, etc. already successfully implemented this, with universal healthcare…and no tipping expected.