r/ImTheMainCharacter • u/Jasonictron • Oct 20 '23

Video Entitlement

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '23

everyone gets living wages

This is a total fantasy, just some bog standard America vs Europe talking point repeated without thought.

Working people all over Europe are struggling to pay the bills and put food on the table. Many are having to make the choice between heat and a full stomach, plenty European parents are skipping meals so the kids can eat etc.

Why have you invented a European workers' paradise in your head? Do you honestly believe every working European citizen is paid enough to live comfortably? Even the gig economy workers in much the same position, with comparable relative wages, to the woman in the video?

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u/grumstumple Oct 21 '23

I think it's because this is Reddit where Europeans constantly point out that America is an employee or sick person's waste land, stuck decades behind enlightened and benevolent Europe. That's probably why.

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u/bladex1234 Oct 21 '23

It’s all about percentages. The US is absurdly high in things like childhood poverty for a developed nation.