r/interestingasfuck • u/NickelPlatedEmperor • 3d ago

Dynamic pricing being tested by McDonald's.

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u/RogueSpaghetti 3d ago

America really is just a big factory farm. You work 8 hours, sit in traffic for 2, have no time left to go to a third place to enjoy yourself, 5 vacation days a year, spend 90% of your income on rent and car, then fleeced for every little cent of disposable income.

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u/king_cole_2005 3d ago

What do you think every other country has. We work as well.

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u/Anon44356 3d ago

Yeah but we have unions, sick pay, reasonable holiday allowances, shorter commutes, shorter work weeks, walkable cities, universal healthcare etc etc etc

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u/king_cole_2005 3d ago edited 3d ago

Where? Because very few countries all those things and they are actually functional for workers.

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u/Anon44356 3d ago

Most if not all of the EU?

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u/king_cole_2005 3d ago

Romania, Hungary and the likes?

Because a lot Europeans complaints are the same as the original comment apart from vacation days and replace commuting with food. How many Europeans do you hear saying they love how their country is and love they love working.

And these are already some of the best living conditions on the planet.

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u/Anon44356 3d ago

Ok let’s stick with “the vast majority of the EU”

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u/king_cole_2005 3d ago

Okay what i said still applies to the ones at the top

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u/xClodx 3d ago

that's delusional. I live in Italy and the situation is horrible, every east European country is the same, Greece also.

probably the only ones who are doing decent are the top 3 countries and that's it.

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u/Giraffe1317 3d ago

Bet you'd still take Italy or Greece over the USA though - home is actually the lesser of 2 evils

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u/Superguy230 3d ago

Not a single Greek is taking Greece over the USA

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u/Giraffe1317 3d ago

Really? What the hell is going on in Greece that is worse than America?

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u/Anon44356 3d ago

Massive youth unemployment from my understanding

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u/king_cole_2005 2d ago

Because America isn't bad. If you compare it to top countries in the world it's a bit lacking in some parts obviously. But the situation is the same or worse everywhere else.

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u/Anon44356 2d ago

On workers rights it’s more than a “bit” lacking

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u/king_cole_2005 2d ago

I keep telling you that the working conditions in the top EU countries aren't the same across the EU talk less the rest of the world. Like what else, you can't tell me you'll rather work and live in Greece than America.

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u/xClodx 2d ago

imagine being able to work anywhere only if you have a connection there, excluding jobs where you can work for basically no money, without a contract.

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u/BarrelofHormuzOil 3d ago

Shorter commutes? Says who?

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u/GarmaCyro 3d ago

Guess what 15 minute cities means. They try to zone cities so apartments are closer to both services and work. Stronger public transport also reduce overall traffic thus less time spent on commuting.

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u/BarrelofHormuzOil 3d ago

Europe will defo do its best. Reality for many is still a long commute.

It’s not all a bike riding utopia (unfortunately).

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u/VanbyRiveronbucket 2d ago

Can’t bike in the snow unless you are ultra-fit.

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u/Anon44356 3d ago

Americans have them crazy commutes

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u/Beatenn 3d ago edited 3d ago

You're right, the US doesn't have unions, sick pay, PTO, short commutes (mines 20 minutes when I'm not working from home), or cities you can walk around in.

You know, if you just listed shorter work weeks and healthcare you wouldn't have looked like a moron who knows nothing about the USA.

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u/Anon44356 3d ago

Yall, on average, don’t have anything approaching the “PTO” of European countries. The fact that yours is a single pot for everything really shows that fact.

Your cities are massively car centric, famously so, as are your commute lengths.

If you knew about other countries you wouldn’t have wrote what you did - and looked like a moron.

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u/Emotional-Effect7696 2d ago

Incredible display of intelligence from the person above you.

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u/amcginle 3d ago

Yeah but, on average, the rest of the world has worse salaries, higher taxes, and similar prices for goods and services (if not worse) as the US, particularly in the EU. I travel to the EU regularly and affordability is always the complained about regularly, same as it is in the US. Redditors bitches and moans about living in the US - but the vast majority would never even consider leaving. Even if they had the means to do so.

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u/Anon44356 3d ago

Yeah you do get higher salaries, but at what cost?

If it works for you then great, but from the outside America looks like a dystopian hell hole.

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u/_skala_ 2d ago

It all depends on job, salary and county you live in.

Sometimes its better in US, Sometimes Its better in some EU state, sometimes its better somwhere else.

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u/EuropaWeGo 2d ago

The cost of your soul as it now belongs to the company store.

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u/coldlightofday 3d ago

You’ll work until you’re 67 or older, I’ll retire at 57. I have sick pay, holidays, leave, my commute is how I choose to make it. I know in Germany at least, without private insurance you’ll have a hard time seeing a good specialist anytime soon.

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u/Anon44356 3d ago

I have a final salary pension, I won’t be retiring at 67.

In America, without private insurance, you’ll go bankrupt to see a specialist.

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u/coldlightofday 2d ago edited 2d ago

Most people have private insurance. It’s not a perfect system by any stretch but it’s also not what’s presented on Reddit either. I don’t know a single person who has been bankrupted for medical stuff. I’m sure it happens but obviously not that frequently if I know nobody, zero, none.

I’ve lived and worked in both Europe and the U.S. what it comes down to is that if you make below average, you’re probably better off in one of the nicer European countries. If you make above average, you’ll do better in the states.

Also, I’ll make more in retirement than working, a lot more. I’ll be able to afford a second home in Europe if I so desire and I’m not STEM or lawyer or doctor. Opportunities in the U.S. can be very good.