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It's great though - that's how you get amazing services and technological advancement.
I wish we had that. In Europe you're just stuck paying 50 euros for a taxi in major cities (who block the roads, etc. to maintain their monopolies).
Meanwhile in the USA you guys have VR headsets, bioluminescent houseplants and self-driving cars (not to mention the $100k+ salaries!), it's incredible.
Lol I appreciate your enthusiasm for the USA but grass is always greener.
Bruh in the US of A the grass is greener because it's made of polypropylene and spray painted green. Just don't smell it, or look too hard.
Most of us are in poverty, I dont know when but we're in another gilded age and just like the last was underneath the gold is rusty iron.
Yeah it's $40 for an Uber in Columbus or Cleveland as well. There isn't a monopoly on taxis creating that price, thats just how much it actually costs to rent a car for cross city travel.
If you want a no regulations/free market at the helm, you want to move to India. They have all the rules you love.
Bioluminescent house plants are cool but as an American I can tell you right now that my luxury bones hurt.
That's the same in Europe though, dentistry isn't covered on public insurance in the UK, Spain, Sweden, etc.
But we have even less net salary to cover it when there are problems.
True, but your savings on non-luxury bones helps with the fees associated with luxury ones, I'm sure. I can't do anything for my bones with a $30 glowing petunia.
I appreciate/understand your envy. I'm not sure why everyone disagrees so much unless they have also lived under similar constraints.
Unless sarcasm.
Also agree with it might be perception or grass is greener like other comment 😉
We have something like that here too: MOIA in Hamburg.