Just off the top of my head:
State-sponsored higher education that is later paid back through taxes. Free healthcare, also paid for by taxes, and affordable medicine. Decent mass transit, although railways are a disgrace. Labour laws. Paid sick leave and mandatory minimum vacation days. Paid maternity leave, and tax breaks for new mothers.
PM is a Russian asset, but still better than Trump.
wondering which country out of the many performing all this better than the US is described
Decent mass transit, although railways are a disgrace.
Ah, got it.
What’s your guess?
I was sure this was a dunk on Deutsche Bahn, but now you’re making me doubt it.
DB would be an improvement.
I am so incredibly sorry.
we’ve got free healthcare and free universities =) (I’m from Brazil)
We elected a fascist leader once and then we learned from it.
If you’re from Germany or Italy: I don’t think this is really true anymore. The fascist parties in these countries got 30%/21% of votes.
5 weeks paid leave
It doesn’t have a traitor as a president
We already went through the phase you just began.
Germany?
Yeah.
Yeah Germany is about to launch into this again though
Absolutely, it’s not looking to hot here either. For those who don’t know should look into our west/east split.
In most urbanized areas, even in suburbs, you can buy daily necessities (food, personal hygiene, medicine, etc) in just a short walk. If in a subdivision, like in a suburb, there would be some houses with an attached corner store. Failing to find what you need there, a convenience store would be a bit further (either still inside the subdivision, or just out the gate).
If you need to do your groceries, you can use public transport to the market. Even within subdivisions (with some exceptions, like those for the wealthy), there usually would be some form of public transport that could take you to the main highway, and from there, to the market.
That’s just one that immediately came to mind upon reading the prompt. Not sure if there are others, but it’s the most striking to me, and one that I’ve taken for granted until hearing about the US’ suburbs.
We don’t think we’re the only and best in the world. We are interested in the culture of our neighbours. And we respect them.
Public healthcare
Super annuation
Preferential & compulsory voting
No tipping culture
Consumer protection laws
Gun control laws
Weather service isnt privitised
Wide variety of multicultural foods
Farming sector isnt controlled by a few companies (ie chickens)/subsidy schemes (looking at you corn)
Organised religion has less participation and dropping steadily
Adoption of rooftop solar systemsAlso significantly less instances of tech billionares, team factional politics, media oligarchs & donald trumps.
There are a lot of areas we could do better and are ashamed of though.
I live in Japan and we tick most of these boxes as well
I’m on board except for the food variety, but I live in Chicago which attracts an amazing foodie scene. In bumbfuck Iowa you’re probably more likely to have trouble getting some good Thai food.
Australia?
Correct
We’ve got one media oligarch and that’s one too many.
Assuming you’re talking about Australia since you mentioned Super.
Would we consider him australian still?
No chance.
We, here in the UK, for all our faults, have waaaay fewer school shootings… In fact way fewer shootings altogether (even when multiplied by ~5 for relative population size)
To be fair, the UK includes the Scots and they are pretty much in the top 3 of most chill people.
Healthcare, climate, food, democracy, measurement system, no death penalty, houses in concrete
Instead of starting a list of those things and ending up with my App crashing, I will name the one thing I think the US does better.
I think having a speed limit on your highways is kinda a sane thing to have.
Speed limits are great until some idiot decides to follow it.
And nuclear energy
(Germany I guess)
Even when ignoring environmental concerns and purely looking at it from a financial perspective: Renewable energy is more profitable already.
Yes, but they are unreliable. Nuclear is an amazing option for base loads, and then adding renewables on top of that just makes sense. Battery energy storage is still insanely expensive, so nuclear is a very valid alternative in countries that haven’t let their nuclear production capabilities fall off to the point of taking decades.
Hydro power can be great for baseload and storage
You definitely have to ignore ecological concerns when talking about hydro.
There is no 100% clean energy, but hydro is pretty good
Agreed, but it is so incredibly geography dependant that you can’t really generalize with it.
Why?
Thats not a speed limit. That’s a speed minimum.
Our target speed (the speed you are recommended to drive) is faster than the US speed limit.
I mean, it’s a nice tickling in the balls when you engage the warp drive on your way home. But it also inspires a lot of amateur race car drivers. Nah, I can do without.
I say minium because if you’re not doing it you’ll get hell from all drivers around you and realistically everyone is pushing 10 over.
We care about the planet.
I come from a third world country that is worse than the US in a lot of ways, but I don’t have to worry about getting shot by a rando with a gun.
Which country, if you don’t mind me asking?
In new ways every passing day!
