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The floor is much higher in the US. There are myriad problems here, but even the lower 25% have it far far better than many of the countries they immigrate from. Thats not to say its perfect and above all other countries, but there is a reason for mass immigration here.Business opportunity is also substantially higher. I know at least a dozen successful business people from fairly high standard of living European and Asian countries that came to the US for business opportunities.Look at the top 20 countries in the world by population. Which would you rather live in than the US, upbringing and patriotism aside. Germany and maybe Japan? The latter of which is incredibly expensive all over, even by US standards.
On another point brought up in this room, regarding criticizing China because we fail to see our own failings -- give me a break gang. Labor practices that we outlawed a century ago are prevalent there. Things like worker safety, 40 hour work weeks, child labor are hardly the norm here but prevalent there. And for those of you concerned about polluting the environment, the United States is light years ahead of China in environmental preservation, emissions controls and environmental regulation. It's not even close.
I'm glad you mention these things. I could see them going away in the US under the right circumstances. They are, after all, government imposing its will in private enterprise.
Look at the top 20 countries in the world by population. Which would you rather live in than the US, upbringing and patriotism aside.
None. I want us to fix our problems here.
Brother Jesmu:Are you serious? Sure, I could see an autocratic leader backed by a compliant Congress do something this crazy. HOWEVER, this is America! We don't do things like that here.Yeah, some things may change at the edges but child labor aint gonna happen. Working conditions have to be safe and the only way the 40 hour work week is going is down to 35.You know, you mentioned earlier that you'd prefer the Nordic Countries or the Iberian Peninsula to our country. Good luck. Gaining citizenship and full access to all the rights of a native in those countries is hard, if not impossible. And how are you, as a foreigner, going to work there except as an American ex-pat?Dude, both my children were adopted from overseas. The hospital in which my son was born was bombed by the Russians recently and 60 innocent lives were taken. A month after we adopted my son, the orphanage director was arrested and 32 bodies of small children less than two years of age were dug up in the back yard. All had died of malnutrition and food poisoning. My daughter is a child of Chernobyl, having been born 60 miles northeast of Chernobyl.These things don't happen in the United States. Period. Sure, we have our problems as I said before. But as Brother JWags said, poverty in the United States means something totally different than in the rest of the world. If you don't believe me, I have some garden spots in Ukraine and Belarus I'd encourage you to visit!
thank you for posting this brother dog, but sorry to hear the things you had to see/experience in order to make some very good points most of us cannot even begin to comprehend. on the other hand, God bless you and your family for the 2 lives you most probably saved from some incredibly savage conditions. that is one helluva story man!
Sure, I could see an autocratic leader backed by a compliant Congress do something this crazy. HOWEVER, this is America! We don't do things like that here.Yeah, some things may change at the edges but child labor aint gonna happen. Working conditions have to be safe and the only way the 40 hour work week is going is down to 35.
Lol. Sure. EPA hasn't been defanged at allFurther, I don't think it would be anything authoritarian at all. If we had an outright libertarian president and the Congress to support them, we might say goodbye to a lot of government regulation/oversight.
If you honestly believe child labor and early 1900s working conditions would ever come back, regardless of the president, you're a special kind of Chicken Little.
If by child labor, you mean 7-year-olds working 12-hour shifts on factory floors, you're right. That's not coming back.But there's been some backsliding in recent years, with Wisconsin helping to lead the way in putting younger kids to work for longer hours.US employers are recruiting teenaged workers to solve their difficulties in hiring and retaining workers, and some Republicans and industry groups are pushing for looser child labor laws to allow those industries to put teens to work for longer hours.https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/nov/02/child-labor-laws-weakened-us-industries-teens
Returning to 1900s working conditions/labor laws? No.Eliminating much environmental regulation? Yes.
Brother Jesmu:Huh?Try to locate, expand or modify any manufacturing or processing facility in the US and you’ll see how little backtracking we have done.Look at the quality of your water and ask how much backtracking we’ve done. Or the amount of raw sewage in our waterways. And look at what we have done with toxic waste.We’ve done great compared to 40 or 50 years ago. Too bad you Millennials have no institutional knowledge of where we were and are.
Millennials are 40 years old. Don't be such a boomer, homie.
Is it your contention that there has not been deregulation of the environment in the recent past?
Do you have experience with industrial regulations around the world and how the US stacks up compared to their competitors? Or just reading some stuff online?[/quFYI.Jesmu84 is more of a YouTube economist.There are a lot of teenagers out there that have to work to support their families. Parents are disabled, addicted, absent, etc. Like so many other things, covid exacerbated this problem.Other kids want to work. It's good for them. A lot of the issues in the millennial generation is their lack of work ethic. (Tossed that bomb just for hards.)
Do you have experience with industrial regulations around the world and how the US stacks up compared to their competitors? Or just reading some stuff online?
C'mon Wags, you are better than that.Starter list:https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks-list.html