I live in scandinavia and my 13 year old daughter fell of the boat...she was wearing a west and within 45 seconds we had her back in the boat. We called the emergency to talk to someone what to do. They sent a helicopter to the shore and came out with an ambulance boat to get us. Was taken to a hospital by helicopter. Got checked by an neurodoctor and a regular doctor and taken x-Ray of the spine and neck. She was fine and we went home. 2 days later the doctor called to check if evrything was ok. We ofcourse did not pay anything....it's crazy how americans think we get bad healthcare just becouse we have a social healthcaresystem🙄
That's Scandinavia. Three of the richest countries in the world with excellent social care. And lovely blond men and women. They are not savage Vikings and developed much of the towns of the countries theynraided anyway. .. but tr is a Vest in English. And volks vagon is German not Scandinavia
@@bartconnolly6104 aucun rapport avec la richesse d'un pays mais plutot comment sont redistribuées les richesses produites par les travailleurs... En france la medecine est gratuite(ainsi que l'école jusqu'à 16 ans) et on soigne aussi les étrangers gratuitement...et la France et loin de faire parti des 3 pays les plus riches... Autre exemple, cuba sous embargos americain infâme depuis plus de 50 ans(honte à eux) à pourtant une des meilleures médecines du monde et accessible à tout le pays...pendant le covid c'était un des rares pays du monde à avoir produit son propre vaccin...et que je sache Cuba ne fait pas du tout parti des pays les plus riches... Bref tout ca pour dire que c'est pas la richesse d'un pays qui fait qu'il y a une bonne politique de santé mais des décisions politiques qui le permettent... Obama a mis en place le "care système" et trump l'a viré le mendat suivant...en france on a créé la sécurité sociale (i dont know how to say in english "social help" ?) apres la seconde guerre mondiale sauf que nous on l'a toujours... ;) Les dirigeants amzricains(et les gens qui les élisent) choisissent de laisser crever les pauvres pendant que les riches peuvent se faire soigner en échange d'une fortune...c'est un choix politique pas du tout une fatalité...!!!
@@erfer1134 I don't agree with your quasi Marxist analysis. In Cuba for example I know of someone who trained as a dentist and was put managing a coffee shop by the State. If they opened their borders many of their own people would leave. I have lived in France and yes their health system is better than elsewhere. I dont regard the US as the best in the World even if they have the best doctors. It favours the rich and those with Health insurance. Social Insurance ...yes it cover health etc. Similar in Ireland. and is pay related ...PRSI It is "no frills" health care with longer queues ...BUT you get the SAME doctors treating you as private care. I do not totally disagree with you. One remarkable comparison is Norway vs UK. Fifty years ago, post WWII Norway was an undeveloped country. Then North Sea Oil was discovered. The UK allowed US companies drill and extract profits. Norway did not! They set up State companies and they reinvested the money in social infrastructure. Scotland got little or nothing for North Sea Oil. Norway got good housing health and education .
Well I'm from Argentina a third world country for some people, and yes the corruption always held us back. But we have public schools, public universities (and it is not easy to graduate of them if you don't study hard, and people really values a diploma of those universities when you're looking for a job) and free hospital (are they great ,no, they lack of money support, supplies but the professional are the best and the same that treat you in a private facility) but nobody would expect to be really sick to call an ambulance, or to make an illness worse but not going to the doctor, yes of course if you have your prepaid health insurance or your social health insurance you would prefer to go to private hospitals with better service (I mean nice place, more nurse control, cleanest places) but the doctors and nurses in public or private are mostly excellent, the thing is that government should use our taxes money to improve hospital school and less in putting that money in their pockets or their campaign , or brainwashing generations, but this is another topic. If you get in an accident in my country you will be attended, without loosing your financial life
Australian here. Last week was mounting biking with friend and his 13 yo son. He fell off a jump. Ambulance came and just to be sure he had no spine injury they arranged a helicopter to fly him to the children's hospital in Melbourne to get an MRI. He was all OK in the end. Cost was zero.
"Cost was zero." As it should be. A society that doesn't cover the medical treatment of underage children in emergencies - even though there is enough wealth to do so - has no right to exist, IMO. The thought that parents in the US have to start GoFundMe campaigns and beg for money, so they can pay for their children's lifesaving medical procedures makes me boil with rage.
Cost was 0? What is the minimum (and overall) tax rate in your nation again at the LOWEST levels? Oh, that's right. The poor class pays 19%. The lowly class pays almost 33%. The middle class pays 45%. Do you want to know why Australia's crime rate is going up, and why poverty induced crime is as well? Because you're taxing everyone into poverty. Your cost is not 0. It's extremely expensive.
@@BrokenCurtain Your opinion is noted, and ignored. A society that enslaves people based on emotional feedback is no society that will function for long. Australia is falling apart and falling into Fascism faster than anyone expected, just Like Canada and most of Europe now. Pretty sure when you FORCE people to provide a service, it's called slavery....
@@RealConstructor You are not my responsibility, nor are my children yours. You share your burden with yourself, so you don't over burden me with your drama. What kind of immoral and unethical tyrant are you to demand I pay for YOUR problems?
I'm a Spanish optician and two years ago I had to calculate a prescription for a man that did Olympic Shooting. He came with the rifle, inside a special case with a numeric lock and all the papers (rifle identity card, his identity card, his federation card, psychological assesment...) because if a police saw him with it and didn't had the papers with him, he would be arrested. He only can use it in a controlled enviroment and he came without ammunition because it was prohibited because my work place wasn't a controlled enviroment. But you can have guns in Spain. For the pledge to the flag, nearly every European is going to raise an alarm. Here in Spain we had something similar to a pledge to the flag in our dictatorial times. Usually Europeans asociate this pledge to a darker times.
The pledge is definitely a strange one. If someone is free, why are they forced to pledge allegience in school. Where I live you would only make an oath if you were joining the army or police something like that.
In Canada, we don't have an 'every man for himself' mindset. The social safety net is integral to our societal values. On my street there are million dollar homes, doctors, actors, minimum wage earners, and people on social assistance/subsidized housing. So people of all socio-economic backgrounds live side by side. Having it highly visible forces people to address social problems, builds cohesion, and helps reduce crime. The marginalized aren't desperate and know society cares about them. It makes a BIG difference.
That’s evil socialism don’t you see that ;) The irony is that America today has social segregation and they don’t even see it. I mean you have to buy a house in an area that has good schools and those houses are not cheap thus you divide separate the have from not have and limit social mobility instantly. It is kinda shocking to me to see this. And they are even fine with it …
We could do a whole lot better tho. We are really only good compared to USA standards compared to Europe and Australia we kind of suck on healthcare,education and workers rights.
I'm in Malaysia and last year my boss "forced" me to take my remaining allocated paid annual leave (I only took 12 out of 21 days). It was already December and he's like u HAVE to take your remaining 9 days off before the end of the year. He wasn't messing around and was quite annoyed. Apparently if u don't take all the days off, the higherups and HR will question him and he might be accused of overworking the staff in our dept (something like that)
Yep, I have had the same in the UK. My boss was like "if you don't book 2 weeks off soon, I'l have to force them on you!" I think the companies get penalised by law if staff don't take the time off they are allocated. This stops companies from blackmailing staff into saying it's their choice they didn't take all their leave.
@@welshgit haha exactly I live in the UK too and a couple of weeks ago my manager said the same thing about if I don’t take my remaining holidays they will be forced upon me 😂. So now I’m here chilling for 2 weeks 😂
I have a few weeks left to take too and my boss told me that I MUST take them before the end of the year, so now I am on holiday for a couple of weeks, then I'll take the rest around the Christmas 😂
One problem in my company was that employees used to save their holidays, ending up with hundreds of days to take. Which they usually took at the end of their career in order to retire earlier. A big hassle for HR. And if you don't take your days in time you simply get money instead. Which is not an advantage considering our high taxes.
As a person recieving disability benefit I am grateful i live in Norway .People on disability benefit is seen as a people with steady income and you can get a loan to buy a apartment .I am so grateful for owing my own little apartment 🙏🏡 ❤️
How weird to see someone in same situation as myself.... And yeah I'm so glad I live in Norway....I own my own apartment... In US I would have lived in a tent......at best. You can keep that.
Wtf, How 🤔 I'm in UK 🇬🇧, IF Savings Over 6k, Benefit, Docked, Max 16k, Then Stopped. You, Can Have, (by the sounds of it), 99k, to get your own home, &, Still, Getting Aid! How?!😮
@user-kv8ti6bp5n In Norway, we have a bank call house bank that gives people with disability benefit a loan without having any savings. Disability benefit is seen as a regular income here. 🙂
The part buy part rent scheme here in the UK is called shared ownership. Buyers raise a mortgage on the share they are buying and pay a subsidised rent on the share they don’t own. They can buy more shares later if they wish, but there’s no deadline or requirement to do that. They have similar rights and responsibilities as outright owners.
Your reactions are refreshingly genuine. No over the top unnecessary emotional outbursts. Really like how your educating yourselves with humility and open mindedness. Keep up the channel please 👍
The fragment about a person being responsive or not, in order for the ambulance to come or not (around 30:40), is totally alien to me. I live in Poland. If You have an accident here - you call emergency services. If someone else nearby had an accident - you call emergency services. They will only ask for the address. The will pick you up, no matter the insurance, and then drop you at the nearest hospital ER, where you'd get triaged. Depending on the severity of your injury, you will either wait for hours, or be admitted to the relevant operating theater as fast as possible/feasible. Free of charge.
I cannot understand how they can ask the person making the call to give an opinion (other than if he is responsive or not). He is not a doctor and even if the person who is hurt does answer who knows what can happen once the call is over.
Same in Germany! I'm so glad we do have this. The emergency call, will ask a bunch of questions, but in between they are already on the way to you. It's mostly to get a clue about if they need a helicopter, ir or a special doctor ready! Or need to send one as well. Bc here we have only emergency paramedics in the ambulance, not a physician. And to help the caller and calm everyone down!
In the uk they make lots of questions and if the person is conscious is the bigger one and it’s mainly to know if the person has any major health problems like pacemaker/ medication allergies etc…so the can better access the patients.
Spain is definitely a great country !! I've been lucky enough to spend 2 years there and i loved it. Beautiful cities, amazing landscapes, great people, fantastic food, unbelievable night life. A total blast !! And when it comes to safety well ... Just one example that speaks for itself : in 2017, in Madrid; the capital and largest city with almost 7 million people, "only" (it's always to much but you know what i mean) 16 people were murdered. Not 16 per 100.000. 16 in total ! The same year in LA, a city of less than 4 million people, the homicide rate was 7.01 per 100,000 people ... In 2016, 294 homicides in Spain. The same year, 762 in Chicago only. Crime rate in Spain : 0.6 per 100.000 (one of the lowest worldwide) / it's 5.4 in the US. No comment needed, i guess. Your cousin will be fine !!
@@Hansen710 That's not what i meant lol !!! I was just saying commenting on the crime rate in the US compared to any western European country is useless cause we all know how much safer it is here, right ? But yeah let's praise Spain. That country totally deserves it. Even if, like anywhere else, nothing's perfect and the country has its own flaws and problems, but who doesn't ?
@@ingomenssen56 Uhm. Yes. Europe is very safe, with a few e xceptions. Should go without saying. Meanwhile the US ranks 129th when you list safety in different countries... Germany? 16th. Spain? 30th. Of the 10 safest countries, 7 are in Europe. Why is this even something to talk about lol. Everyone knows Europe is safe and that America stands out as an unusually unsafe country to be in.
Here in Croatia, which is part of the European Union, you can have weapons, but it is strictly regulated. For example, you have to undergo an examination by a psychiatrist and a psychologist to assess how mentally stable you are in order to avoid giving a gun license to someone who is mentally unstable or distracted because that person would probably be potentially dangerous. You guys are great, keep it up, greetings from Croatia (Sorry for my English if I wrote something wrong)
Yes, however ex-yu people possess the highest amount of illegal weapons on the whole continent, Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia. Especially in smaller places people are armed to their teeth or at least has knowledge how to get a gun fast. Not to rain on your parade, Ex-yu is pretty safe, been many times in almost all countries, but there's weapons, saw it myself XD
@@mementomori1900 I went to Croatia by Bus in 1986 or so, they had ammonition and gun shells in every Cafe abroad, sorted from small to big, in Osijek all glas was gone, sand bags everywhere.
@@Jpeg13759 1986 seems unlikely, sounds more like the 90's? Yugoslavia run tight ship on the 80s But who knows, Osijek used to be quite nice student town at the time.
The Swedish experiment was conducted in the city of Gothenburg, where the municipal government reduced the number of hours worked by staff in an old people's home and a surgical ward form 8 hours a day to 6 hours a day. The experiment lasted for two years and was a great success. It reduced absenteeism by almost 20%
As a Norwegian, one thing that has always puzzled me about the US is this, USA is one country, why does it act like it is 50 different countries? Just have the same laws across every state....
That's actually pretty common European (mis)thinking of US, that there is homogeneous America, that there is "American accent", that how something is in "America". Europe is very different place depending in which country you are, but I believe so is US depending which State you are in.
@@puhistagram but that's everywhere tho I think most european countries have a much bigger range of accents than the entire US. And we have something like states too for example in germany we have 16 different states (we call it Bundesland) with different laws aswell. Though I believe there are more federal regulations than in america but still I believe one of the biggest misconceptions of americans is that you believe europe is comparable to the USA. It definetly is not that's like lumping in Canada and Mexico with the US I've never been in any country but from what I hear they are three very different places
I'm in Melbourne, Australia, and I was curiously looking at react videos by people in the USA because I feel like you're trapped and slowly realising it. I wasn't sure about the longer style video, but I have come around to it because I am watching you learn and have lengthy discussions. I'm very proud of you both for actively education yourself and seeing the flaws of your country. I hope many other youths in your country watch you and feel inspired to learn.
In Ohio they took the homeless and put them in housing and gave them a process of buying the house over 15 years. It was very successful and lessoned the need for homeless services and worked out cheaper. That was about 8 to 10 years ago.
damn, i am in EU, my child had allergic reaction on skin (nothing really serious) and we called like childrens doctor hotline and asked what to do and they said just call an ambulance just in case so yeah, I cant imagine not having social healthcare...
In Sweden we have social security contributions if you are without income and as I remember they pay FULL rent, electricity bills, food and clothes until you get a job. We even have rent allowances from the government if you have lower income and if you are a pensioners where they help you with up to 93% of the rent.
Yes. As someone who is longterm sick and never had a real work, i get full rent + some extra to pay bills and buy food. Its about 12 000 kr per month and i can also take out stuff like free gym pass, cheaper bus passes and have a cost cap on dentist costs (if its because one of the reasons they have listed on their site).
In Denmark, if you lose your job (some stipulations like you have to have had worked in this job for like at least 2 or 3 years to qualify) the government pays you like 80% of the salary you had in this job for up to 6 months. It's basically designed to give you the security to find a similar job in your field without the stress of having no income or forcing yourself to take a low entry level job just to make ends meet.
I'm from Switzerland and yes, there are quite a lot of people who have guns here but you have to go through extensive psychological evaluation and long background checks in order to buy one. If you got any kind of criminal record, doesn't matter what kind, you can't buy a gun. You're not allowed to openly carry it around either. You can't just walk into a grocery store with your gun strapped to you and you also have to regularly go to a shooting range and train in order to make sure you can actually handle a gun properly. I think what makes a huge difference to the US is that people here don't buy guns as a means to protect themselves, wether that's in public or in their own homes. They buy them either as collectors or with the purpose of using them on shooting ranges as a hobby. Ppl don't feel the need to carry guns on them because we don't need to. Gun related violence here is basically zero because again, ppl don't see guns as a right or need but as a luxury i guess you could say.
My family lives there and when i visited them i think i maybe saw 1 gun. Scared the shit out of me at first site but then i realized its probably some military dude. And its the same laws here in Sweden, well, atleast nearly same. We ofc use most of our guns for hunting. Almost everyone here have a hunter in the family. Its either hunters or military /ex military that has guns, basicly noone else. Never seen one out on the streets.
What matters is the value of life.. No matter all those rules, you have alot of guns.. But you do not learn some people are worthless. or they should be shot if they do a simple crime. And if people walk in your front yard, they are less worth then a cat I dont think all those rules stop most people from using the gun wrong, i believe it is in the culture and how we raise children.. Where im from everyone learns they are not worth more then other people.. In the states its kind of the other way around.. Also the guns can only be a little bit of the problem. What about stuff like using first aid on other people. And care for other people. With a culture like that, alot of people must also die without guns being used The hospitals i the states shows to some degree the value of human life over there. Most other countrys dont care about how you are going to pay, before they start treatment
That's roughly the same process here in the UK. For certain groups of people who require fire arms the it's very restricted process. That said there areas of the UK parts of London, Manchester, Liverpool,Birmingham were gun crime is problematic usually around drugs. UK police only fire arms as last resort but often they get deployed is anyone's guess. We do unfortunately have a real issue with knife crime. It's at epidemic levels.
In the UK if you call emergency. Services,ambulance ,fire brigade police,they will ask questions like " Is the person responsive " because it helps them asses the condition of patient, the more information they have will help them to respond in the best way for patient ,same for police,fire brigade,the more information they have the better ,more appropriate their response ❤️.
For the partial homeownership in the uk, as he said you apply to buy a percentage and the rest is owned by either the local council if it's part of social housing or by the housing developer if it is a new build. You go through the normal buying process for your percent like a deposit, mortgage etc... and then just pay a reduced rent to whoever owns the rest. You'll end up paying a partial mortgage plus a reduced rent each month. May not be any cheaper to start but the point is you're on the property ladder, the value of you're percentage will increase and most places will eventually give you the opportunity to buy the rest of the property.
I wish we had that in denmark.. owning your own in some places, makes people rich.. And pays more then a good job. Not many places loses value.. renting or owning devides people into sepperate classes more and more
In the UK, planning permission is required for any new housing development. One condition of the planning permission is that a percentage of the new build has to be "affordable housing". The easiest way for developers to meet these conditions is to build an apartment block of one and two bedroom apartments, rather than building lots of small houses.
@@amyw6808 affordable housing? It's a joke. If builders construct small development, say less than 12, they do not need to build affordable housing. There's an awful lot of small closes and crescents with 8 - 10 houses in my area
Generally the requirement is for the affordable housing to be 'tenure blind' so it looks the same as general market houisng. On smaller developments under 10 units, there is sometimes a requirememt for the developer to pay a financial contribution towards affordable. Its a drop on the ocean. The government needs to build more affordable housing rather than relying on developers.
In the UK, we have rent assistance. If you are on low income or cannot afford your rent, that state pays or tops up so you are not left homeless. These programs are means tested so they system is not abused. We also have shared ownership housing - which is again means tested but allows you to buy a % of the home you can afford. Helps ppl build capital.
That's about to disappear soon, just so you know. Your nation is barely able to afford its incredibly small military, and it's racking up an insane debt. If war breaks out with Russia, then China and Iran will also get involved starting WWIII, and you can say goodbye to all of your welfare programs, and you'll see why Americans were right when they said not to rely on the government and let them control so much of your economy.
I recently realized that in the USA it seems that when you go to sleep you check if there is socialism or communism under the bed and not the monster, it seems the thing you are most afraid of , I live in that type of house in Italy with my grandmother, we pay € 153 plus a few cents of rent, in case in a certain month you are unable to pay here you can pay the rent not immediately and wait for the month after the arrival of the bill, they don't bother you for just one month
@@hyperionsf3220 you did not understand what I wrote, I meant that in the USA they say that here we are all communists or socialists etc. because we live in a certain way and we have better things than them, like the health system, more rights at work and much more, but in the end they always use the term communist or socialist to scare their people, If something happens or someone tries to change something in their country for the better it is a socialist or communist for them
@@andreanecchi5930 The health system of Europe, Australia, and Canada is not better. A simple fact is that people of those areas come to America for life threatening illnesses to save their lives. Before Bill Clinton was in office, medical care in the US cost less than half of all those other nations. The Democrats in this nation, people you support, are intentionally sabotaging the healthcare system so that ignoramuses (people like you) think there's something wrong. However, the intelligent people know this is a farce and already called it out. Rights and privileges aren't mutually exclusive. I'd say your education is far inferior to the US', even with the massive decline thanks to the Socialist Jimmy Carter, who implemented the Department of Education, which saw a drastic reduction in results. Both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin stated to make it appear as if you're a benevolent government, as to acquire more power willingly from the people. Now why is it that two of some of the worst people in history have said this, and you're falling for it, and admitting that you're falling for it? Nah, I think going to war with the Democrats again, and reversing all of their damage, is the quickest and cleanest method of getting things back on track and proving once again, that America is superior to all the slave nations like the ones mentioned above.
@@hartjeslips4061 True or false, the Fascists and Marxists force implemented Nationalized Healthcare? Also, claiming it would be cheaper and save more lives, only to do the opposite and even be used as a tool by government to remove their own citizens for having diseases that government officials deemed "incurable" simply because of cost? Or do I need to remind you of what your system did to Charlie Gaard? Sounds to me like the idiot socialist is the one who is ill informed.
Actually it's not "use it or lose it", you have to use your days off, it's illegal to not use it xD And emplyers not employees can get in trouble for that. When it comes to public healhcare, even in my country (Poland) it works pretty well, once my grandma slipped on ice and broke her cotyloid cavity, ambulance took her to the hospital, in a few days she had a surgery and they've implanted her an endoprosthesis, she had rehabilitation etc. the overall cost was like 20$ for medicines. And Polish heathcare is consider shitty in comparison to countries like Germany or Sweden ;p
Same in France about "use it or lose it", you HAVE to take your 5 weeks. Period. Actually, people just WANT their 5 weeks, be it the manager or the employees "underneath". We think it's just normal to have them (and use them). Managers don't even think of legal consequences, that's the law so everybody has to use it. France was the first country to implement it (back in 1859!! but only for the "fonctionnaires", fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cong%C3%A9s_pay%C3%A9sfr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cong%C3%A9s_pay%C3%A9s btw it's interesting how shorter the english page is compared to the french one...) maybe that's why we think it's normal... And don't think our 35-hour/week and 5 weeks of holiday affects our productivity: France is in the top five countries regarding productivity cz.ambafrance.org/La-productivite-francaise-parmi-les-plus (dates of 2012, productivity has slightly declined by now)
I really like your comments and your way of thinking. I wish you much success. Greetings from the other side of the world - sunny Bulgaria. Our workers have 20 days of paid leave + national holidays, for 2022 they are: January 1 and 3; March 3 - our independence day; April 22, 23, 24, 25, May 2, 6 and 24; September 6 and 22; December 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. All of these are separate from paid leave. If the business cannot close for Christmas, for example, and employees must be at work - hotels, restaurants, shops, etc. employers must pay double the wage.
Hi, I am from Serbia, and even though we are still not a part of EU, we always had payed vacation from work (20+ days) And in the last 10+ years You HAVE to take Your time off or the company will be in problem. Earlier we could save same days off and transfer to next year, now we have to use it all - by law.
Bata Vlado, ja sam poklonio firmi drugi deo odmora. To je bilo prošle godine, i ta firma (državna) nije bila u problemu. Ali zato imam svaki vikend slobodan, radničke igre, putovanje negde u inostranstvo povodom osmog Marta ( imaju pravo da idu i kolege, a ne samo koleginice), i plus jubilarne pare (10 godina rada, zatim 20, 30, 35 i 40). Radno vreme mi se vodi 8 sati, a pošto radim na terenu, svakako nisam svih 8 sati u efektivnom radu. Posao može da se završi i za 5 sati rada, a sve ostalo je slobodno vreme (to je po meni najveće bogatstvo danas kada se brzo živi).
I had 2 emergency surgeries, scheduled surgery, pneumonia, mastoiditis and had 3 ambulances. I had a scan and had a 3/4 inch blood clot in my neck. I spent a month in hospital and had nurses visit my house daily for 6 weeks to give me intravenous antibiotics. Total cost to me was $0. In addition I am diabetic so all of my medication is totally free. Not just my insulin but any medication for any illness. My ex boss was US based, ruthless, heartless, jealous and on the verge of simply cruel.
fun fact ... portugal/switzerland/austria & scandinavian countries have the same percentages of gubs per household as the US ,,, we just dont use them to shoot eachother
I couldn't imagine not having times off. I'm a teacher in France, i get 2 weeks off every 7 to 8 weeks and 6 weeks off in the summer. I can do what i love on the side and my work is not the center of my life. I feel very lucky! Hope you guys get that one day in the us. Love the videos, keep up the good work
@@charisma-hornum-fries We have an entire book of laws dedicated to jobs, "le Code du Travail". I'm gonna simplify and summarize to the extreme here but in general everyone who works full time is entitled to 5 weeks per year paid leave, at minimum, and then you have specific "amendments" (Conventions) to these laws for specific jobs (for exemple education jobs)
I'm from Spain and there's this phrase that resumes it perfectly "I don't need to be the wealthiest on the graveyard". Or this other one "Why do you work that hard? Like if you were going to inherit the company."
Halloween is a celtic tradition that originated in the UK and Ireland, that's why it's mostly celebrated in those countries and in places with many migrants from Scotland and Ireland. It has spread to other countries in recent years, though. Other countries have related traditions - All Saints' Day is a Christian holiday, after all. It's usually celebrated more solemnly, though. Then there are other holidays and traditions around the same time: in England, there's Bonfire Night on November 5th ("Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot"), and in the Protestant regions in Northern Germany, children go from house to house with lanterns on November 11th ("St. Martin's Day), singing songs in exchange for sweets. And in early December, there are the so-called "Krampus runs" in the regions in and around the Alps, where people dress up as demons to give people a scare.
In protestant regions of The Netherlands we also have Sint Maarten on November 11th. Children go door to door with a lantern and sing to get candy in return.
Germany has the "Walpurgisnacht", which is celebrated at the end of April and is very similar to the pagan spirit of Halloween. It's not a holiday, though.
@@BrokenCurtain Nordic countries have that aswell. We call it Valborg or Valborgsmässoafton. Some other countries have it aswell, Slovenia is one of them i think.
11:49 Basically the rule of thumb is that you're not allowed a gun in Europe if you have mental health problems or a criminal history and things like guns, cars etc is seen as a privilege, not a right, so you have to show that you're worthy of it by learning how to handle them safely, and you can lose the privilege if you misbehave. The details varies greatly from country to country though. But that's the essence. You're not allowed to own something that can potentially kill hundreds of people without showing that you're not a complete idiot, be that a gun, a car or a plane or anything else.
In a country with less restrict gun laws it's less likely that people help each others. If someone could pull a gun every moment would you try to stop a robbery? Help someone who is confused and not in a clear mind? Walk up to a car or place you heard strange noises? Or would you ignore it, or call the police in hope they would do the right thing? And the police has to act with the same suspicions. Loose gun laws breed violence independent if they are used or not.
Hiyah.. Love your videos.. love the relaxed conversational style.. Just to let you know, if you don't already know, Halloween originated in Ireland, as an ancient Celtic pagan festival. BTW Celtic is pronounced Keltic not Seltic. The native Irish word for Halloween is Samhain pronounced Sow.-in, sow as in how. Remember Irish is a different language to English and is much older, so using the english alphabet to try to pronounce Irish words will never work as the languages have nothing in common. Anyway looking forward to your future videos. Byeeeeeeee
ohh nice! Thanks for filling us in, we feel like we've heard it originating in Ireland before but totally forgot. haha Also, thanks for taking the time to comment
4:44: "Thinking for yourself" I just listened to a Russian youtuber explaining/criticizing how the media (in Russia) are used to shape the minds and way the locals see the world. Looking from Europe at the USA and Russia I see many similarities. In both cases oligarch (or capitalists as they are called in the USA) try to make things optimal for themselves. As a European I get information from several countries and different sources that try to influence me in different ways but contradict each other. And I have friends and colleagues that intimately know other languages, cultures and religions or are part of it. The result is, that I am forced to find my own point of view. Often countries even have media that by law have to be impartial (and are basically financed by the government/community to do so).
Social Housing: I came across two examples in Belgium. One was just random apartments in existing buildings. A few of those apartments were available for rent, but there were no immediate takers. So, the government put people in there who needed housing with the government paying at a reduced rate. This way the landlord got at least some money, rather than having it sit empty. This was a temporary solution. More permanent: An old building in the middle of town was torn down (It was pretty much falling apart anyway.) The new apartment building was designed specifically with social housing in mind, but instead of being hidden on the outskirts of town, it was right in the centre. Again, everyone benefited. Land in that place was incredibly expensive and noone was willing to build commercially because of the cost. So, the government stepped in. better than having that old building slowly rot away.
So I think the “partial ownership” means that you pay less for your rent but even at that a portion of that rent contributes to a fund that gives you equity in the home. This is good on a couple of fronts: 1. You can eventually gather enough equity to be able to put a down payment on a home that is not part of Social Housing; 2. Being an owner means you are more motivated to keep your property looking good.
There's tax breaks associated with being a first time buyer, you typically pay a market appropriate rent but due to the tax breaks build up equity in the property. The contract is basically the same as a mortgage, and completly unlike a rental agreement.
i have my doubts on that one, after all, just the other day i, as a german, stated that healthcare is a (constitutional) right in germany and not a privilege. the americans went crazy... there was even one who claimed that healthcar is not a right because God... like wth?
@@teestees1115 the interesting thing is, it could be one, but they made sure it isn't by clearly defining the bodily integrity part, in europe and other areas on the planet, health is a part of that but not in the US and not in the universal declaration of human rights because they made sure that it only defines what countries can not do, not what they should do. now who would be brave, or stupid, enough to try and drag the US in front of the international court? that could be fun to watch actually...
its not low costing housing, its the same houses, builders have to give over a percentage of any of the houses they build in an estate to social housing
In the UK we get a mandated 28 days vacation per year plus 9 public holidays. Some companies have tried giving unlimited time off - take as much time off, whenever you want, and found that people were actually taking less time off because they weren't taking vacations just so they don't lose them and instead just taking what they need.
@@sandersson2813 Statutory annual leave entitlement: Most workers who work a 5-day week must receive at least 28 days’ paid annual leave a year. This is the equivalent of 5.6 weeks of holiday. That is direct from Govmt website.
They are still living in an American bubble, without any transparency. Think they are wide minded, but cannot imagine what other countries are truly like.
Luxembourg. Marijuana, Prostitution, Abortion, Assisted Suicide for the terminally ill, all legal. Minimum 25 days paid holiday per year plus 12 paid public holidays. 40 hours per week.Universal healthcare ( on my $15 per hour minimum wage job I paid 3% tax for healthcare.) Unlimited paid sick days. Free education and further education. Children are paid an allowance until they finish school, up until 26 years old. Drinking age 16 years old. Free public transport. I'm a Brit who came for a weekend in 1988, still here with $3000 per month pension. Low compared to everyone else but that's my fault. See you soon?
When you buy a percentage of your home here in the UK, its usually on a part rent part buy basis. You buy 25% with a 25% mortgage, and you rent the remainder depending on the amount you've purchased. When this first started in the 80s your total rarely went over your total current rent. That's not the case these days as property prices have gone through the roof. We have whole areas where I live that are part rent part buy.
Also typically when you buy more percentages it's usually a minimum amount e.g. 10% of whatever the value is at that time. Which makes it hard to save up enough to work your way up to 100
We do not have Halloween, we have Remembrance of the Departed. We go visit the graves to place wreaths and flowers on them and to light the candles. You also had All Hollows Eve with similar traditions before it became commercialized.
In Switzerland people have guns being part of the the army. They (the men) have to go on training every few years again to keep them fit as soldiers (until a certain age). And with no doubt in the mountains there are groups that have the guns for the hunt, but their guns usually are kept in the clubhouse.
A lot of the EU countries that have lots of guns also have compulsory national service. They often get to keep their gun after this period and act as a militia during times of war. One of the reasons you don't want to invade these countries is that not only are there lots of guns, but the people holding them have the training and experience to use them well.
I live in a Council house (social home) and I was on the council list for 2 years and was given a brand new home built by the council for £85 (100bux) roughly a week. After about 5 years I contracted a lung disease and started to go blind (now fixed) and the council picked up 90% of that rent. just to add that my eye operation involved the removal of both lenses and replaced by new ones all for free! and I also get all my prescriptions for free delivered to my door for free! and yes the only place in the UK with free prescriptions is Scotland!
Why does everyone forget Wales? 🥺We also have free prescriptions, free dental treatments, mixed housing etc. Hey guys! We're down here, just opposite Ireland pretty much, lots of lovely coastline and all the other nice stuff!! Also more castles per capitia and a dragon flag.
@@stephenanderson1594 interesting point. There is definitely a relationship between crime and poverty but clearly it’s complex. Poverty can cause some people to be criminals, a life of crime leads to poverty.
In Italy we also have a cap of 40 works hours a week. An employer can ASK an employee to work more with an official WRITTEN request, but the employee can refuse and if he accept he/she is paid DOUBLE check for those "extraordinary hours". If the employee try to force in some way an employee to work more than 40 hours (blackmailing the employee in some way) you can sue the employer to a "Job Judge" for very serious ripercussions
Portugal here and, as in all other comments, health, education and social support to those who need it most are available to all citizens. Social democracy works and translates into quality of life and low crime.
Decent social programs doesn't mean Social democracy, Social democracy is basically communism light. The Scandinavian countries are more capitalist than the U.S, but still have a better quality of life and social safety nets.
My boyfriend was in Key West once. He was in a Bar and got "dehydrated" when he came off 🫣 I guess I don't have to explain his problem. So he sat on the Street, was 🤢🤮 and was really sick. Then two officer came by and asked him, if he's fine. He wasen't so he asked them to call an ambulance. They asked him...I don't know...how often if he is sure that they should call one. They did...after he said "Please, call the f*ckin ambulance." Here in Germany we learn that it's better to call an ambulance one more time than wait. What if it really is a serious condition? Better safe than sorry. In the "worst case" they just check you, say "Oh, this is nothing serious. We don't have to take u to the hospital." and then they leave.
Social housing in Spain: It's not rent. The government buys property and lets you live there for free (you only cover your bills) if you live under a certain threshold of money. If you financially recover, you can opt to buy the house and start paying mortgage to the government or move out. So...pretty much a mortgage where the government is your landlord. Also, those houses are built, usually, right next to a police station, fire department etc so the crime rate is null.
A simple comparison of freedom between the U.S. and Europe: You can buy a gun in a shop and carry it around, even if you intimidate people. But you are not allowed to drink a beer out on the street. In Europe, you can buy, open carry and enjoy a beer in public, but regarding guns it's like the beer in the U.S., there are lots of restrictions and regulations. Question now is, are you more intimidated by someone carrying a gun or a beer open in public? Is the freedom to carry a gun but forbidding to drink a beer in public more freedom than vice versa?
@@NuriBass69 It depends on what you're comparing.If you compare to Russia so much.If you compare to Russia sooo much. Even more than US. And after all, it is the "freest country in the whole world". But if you read that original comment very slowly word by word, you can find that message somewhere.
UK, Social housing is not simply for people who do not work or you might consider inferior or criminal, it is people on low income because private housing costs can be 50% plus of income in some areas.
Second comment, sorry but first one was kind of off topic. Now back to the video ... French citizen here : # - Freedom of speech : called liberté d'expression here (freedom of expression) It means you can freely express yourself vocally, in a book, in a drawing, a painting or any other possible way Considered a basic human right from as far as 1789, in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (the text that later inspired the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN). I believe it is well known worldwide how much we enjoy expressing ourselves, complaining and going on strikes to fight for our rights anyway. Not a surprise, i guess ! # - work life balance : full-time work week is 35 hours / 5th shortest work week on earth / Illegal for your boss to contact you (email, phonecall, text etc) during your time off (weekend, vacations, sick days etc) / 35 days of paid vacation a year on top of 5 national holidays. On average we work 500 hours less every year than an American employee. But our productivity is still 25% higher than average among OECD countries. And we retire at 62 and get paid for life. Minimum wage : €11.07, 2.01 % more than in 2021, increased every year based on calculations by the national institute for statistics and economic studies. (these calculations also regulate the maximum percentage for rent and grocery costs btw) # - "social medicine" ... According to the WHO, we have the best healthcare worldwide. Sure we pay taxes; but at least they benefit us. Average healthcare spending for 2019 was $4,492 here / around $11.000 in the US ... Everything is reimbursed, from 80 to 100%. You can have an additional private health insurance : €40 per month per person on average. Prescription drugs cost : insulin for example, on average is $9.08 in France / $98.70 in the US ... czcams.com/video/MHzUCToycks/video.html Healthcare Access and Quality index : The U.S. ranks last among comparable countries with a score of 88.7, compared to an average of 93.7 for comparable countries in 2016. According to the Bloomberg health index ranking, France ranks 8th. For comparison, the United States 35th Every year 58 Million American adults can’t afford prescription drugs. About a fifth of US adults have medical debt in collections, according to a recent study by the Journal of the American Medical Association. Every year 530,000 American families file for bankruptcy due to medical bills. US medical bills and indebtedness are responsible for 66.5% of all American personal insolvencies, (leading cause of bankruptcy in America, according to the National Consumer Law Center). 34 Million American adults know someone who died because they couldn’t afford treatment ... A 2009 study conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found 65,000 Americans die every year as a result of not having insurance A total disgrace !!!
I live in the UK and I lost my business and therefore income due to illness in 2019 & I get my full rent paid for along with extra monetary help due to my now disability & also a break on paying Council Tax as I'm a Single Dad to 2 Teens. I'll get this help until I'm better and can work again.
Some stats: Per 100k: Spanish illegal homicide rate: 0.6 US illegal homicide: 6.3 Spanish gun deaths(2019): 2,670 US gun deaths(2017): 40,000+ In terms of the data, the US is a far more dangerous and violent country than Spain both on a per person level and globally. At over 40 thousand gun deaths per year in the US, the odds of seeing actual gun use is way above the average of most other countries in the world (2019 UN puts the US in the top third most violent countries on the planet).
You mentioned about there being no social housing in Malibu. I now live in Monaco, and have done for a number of years, and was very surprised to find that there is social housing here, but Monaco being Monaco, they are impossible to spot.
In my country (Bulgaria), Halloween is not an official holiday and we don't have the tradition of masked kids knocking on doors, asking for candy(which would be inconvenient, since most of us live in apartments in blocks of flats, rather than houses), but we still have some local events, mainly for grown ups, club parties, concerts, masked people on the streets, etc. Especially in the larger towns. It's more like an unofficial holiday. We like to party for whatever reason.
Hiii, you guys are so lovely to me. I'm an anthropologist, and I always love to see people interested in learning about other cultures, countries, people. And besides that, people who can take a little bit of jokes at their own expense. I only wisited North Carolina and I know it's only one state, and the US is so large, so there's much I don't know, and I would yet love to see, but I loved most of the American people I've get to know. They were friendly, welcoming, and wonderful people, and I've made many lovely friends. And the nature and food was so amazing. So cheers, much love and respect from Serbia, southeast Europe. Igor🙋🥰🇷🇸❤️🇺🇸🥂
In the UK you can have what is called rent to buy ,where you pay your rent and that goes towards buying the property, it could be part ownership or full ownership
In Australia, annual leave is enshrined in Law so Employers can’t refuse you, although you need to plan ahead, not just request it the day before. Most jobs get four weeks annual leave and it can be split into two periods if you apply for it.
In the UK an ambulance is free all healthcare is free under the NHS. Last year my wife found me collapsed unconscious on the floor, the ambulance arrived in 8 minutes - i was rushed to hospital, CT scans, blood tests etc. After that all the serious things like stroke etc were ruled out I was discharged but referred to Neurology for more tests - i was under the care of neurology for 12 months and they saved my life. Of course it was all free, as it is for everyone living in the UK - god bless the NHS.
Switzerland is a neutral country but has military subscription once males reach the age of 18. They spend some months in training and must spend some months every couple of years until (I think) the age of 30-35. They keep their weapons at home!! so every male that trained in the military has a gun at home. This has the advantage that if war *should* break out the Swiss army can be mobilised within an extremely short time. Because they also have regular shooting practice, you can board a bus and there will be 10 guys with rifles!!
The American government spends three trillion dollars just on military equipment every year, how about a trillion less that would covered health insurance in the USA
I’m in Australia. I get five weeks annual leave per year and 17 days sick leave. We have to take our leave. The most leave I can save is 8 weeks. Anything more than that they send me home until my leave balance is under 8 weeks. We are encouraged to take leave. People are far more productive when they are rested and not burnt out.
You have more freedom than communist Russia but socialist societies are not communism as you believe in America. Knowledge is power, but as long as American politicians equate communism with socialism and do not understand the difference, no change will occur. From Sweden with love.
If you apply for a firearms license in Germany, you must not have a criminal record for violent crimes, for example. You must also justify WHY you need a gun. because of your gun laws so many get shot by the police too. Your cops always assume you're armed. Our police officers in Germany are very relaxed because not every idiot is allowed to carry a gun here.
No nation is ever 'free' when every child endures school shooter drills & face possible death when they sit in class each day. And y'all accept that as being fine😳😱💝
You’re dead right, they don’t care about you in the least 🤷♂️ Keeping everyone distracted with pick a side. These ones versus those ones. When is it ok for a politicians to become multi X millionaires? Average Americans getting totally screwed by their politicians and business leaders, while arguing over gender & race & Russia & left & right.
Social housing here in the UK is actually separate from the issue of paying for housing. First, we have housing benefit - this is a social security payment for those who can't afford housing at all, and it covers a reasonable rent; this can be spent on any rented accommodation, whether private- or state-owned. Then we have the houses (or flats) themselves, often called "council houses". These are quite hard to come by due to dwindling state-owned housing stock, but you essentially go on a waiting list and if your need is the greatest when a house becomes available, you get it. You can then pay rent yourself or, if you don't have the means, it will be covered by housing benefit. Here's the most interesting part: after five years, you can _buy_ that council house from the state at a 35% discount on the market value (this is called the Right to Buy scheme). This discount then increases by 1% every year after that, up to a maximum of £96k discount (or £127.9k in London). There are limitations on what you can do after that, but it varies according to where you live. For example, we moved into a council house in 2005, and in 2018 we bought it for £94,050 against a market value of £155k (which was quite low...the government decides the price, and it's usually noticeably below the actual value). If we decide to sell within the first five years, we have to pay back 80% of the discount in the first year, 60% in the second, 40% in the third, 20% in the fourth and finally none after year five. If we sell at any point in the 10 years after purchase, we must give the state first refusal on the property at market value (ie no bidding). Our house is currently valued at around £220k, so in five years we've effectively accrued £141k in equity (including the money we've paid off the mortgage) and could sell back to the state instantly and pocket the money. Because we live in the south, where house prices are higher, we _could_ actually do that and buy an equivalent house further up north for cash and be mortgage free for the rest of our lives. It's an immensely powerful scheme for changing the prospects of those in the lower rungs of the economy.
When it comes to guns in Switzerland, IIRC they have no standing army, but mandatory military service, and IIRC (I'm not Swiz), the conscripts get to keep their rifle after service to be able to use it to defend the country in case of war.
Hi guys! Belgium 🇧🇪 here, land of Beer, chocolate, and waffles 😅 To give you some examples: Health insurance: fully covered with a private room in the hospital: 500€ a year - this includes reimbursements of medication (the part not being reimbursed by social security) University: subscription of 500€ a year + books around 200€ Holidays: legally we have a minimum of 20 days off with a full-time job (mostly 38 hours a week, some sectors 36hrs) Since short we also have the right to ask to work our regime in 4-days, which is almost impossible to be refused by the employer, and the right to disconnection (employers can no longer contact you outside the contractual working hours) Guns: we can have some but they are strictly regulated. But we're not paranoid, so not a lot of people have them (for example kids don't get shot in schools, and you don't get shot when you go into your neighbors' field/garden) Freedom: we have the freedom to walk around without the fear of being shot, being brutally arrested by the cops (some even walk around without guns), free speech described by our UK friend in the video We for sure live in a social environment - it's not always fair for the working people - but that's how we ensure everybody lives decently. And of course: come visit our beautiful little country!
When building companies buy land in the UK to build new estates they are contracted to build a portion of that estate for social housing. Post war huge social housing estates were built but that just concentrated the social problems to one area. The new system gives people a chance and access to good schools, parks, facilities that people who own their own homes have.
It is the same in The Netherlands. The municipality can prescribe a percentage, usually 20-40% of housing must be social housing (rent controlled up to €750/month), 20-40% affordable housing (rent between €750 and €1100 and buy up to €350,000), the rest is free for the developer. I don’t know the exact numbers, but the ones mentioned are about that range. All new housing is assigned after registration through a waiting list and point system for rent and buy. Reselling homes is almost everywhere not regulated. But there is a anti-speculation clause in most municipalities for five years after you bought a house. If you resell your house within five years, you’ll have to pay a penalty if you make a profit.
I first visited the U.S,A, as a ten year old way back in the early 70's, I visited my cousins high school and much to my amusement, I was asked if we had television in the U.K. I politely told taht person we invented television! 😅
don't judge where you are in life by what you have and what you buy. Judge it by how much time to have to do the things you want with the people you love. the irony of living in one of the most visually beautiful counties on the planet yet spend all your time working to pay for healthcare that is free in most countries...and then lecture the world about your freedoms. It's total crazy.
Em Portugal temos direito a 22 dias úteis de férias remuneradas. Recebemos o que chamamos de subsídio de férias, ou seja, quando entramos de férias, recebemos dois salários. Quando ficamos doentes, vamos ao médico e temos direito a baixa médica onde o estado paga 60% dos dias gozados! Temos também direito a subsídio de natal. Espero que os norte-americanos possam vir a ter tudo isso também. Saudações de Portugal
In Denmark we have "Home security" which essentally means that the government steps in an helps you out with rent if you have had some radical change to your life which means you won't be able to stay in your current home.
If you wanna watch a fun cheesy scary movie I would recommend the Norwegian movie Trollhunter, it's basically a tounge in cheek the office-esque mockumentary.
Housing, I was in Social Housing, I bought the house, I stayed there for 16 years after buying the house, I sold it and live on an estate where it's all private housing, in a posh area of the town, the house is worth nearly £400k now, my wife works and earns £28k, I'm retired, two of my son's live in rented accommodation, one private he's earning £35k, the other social he's earning £60k, and a third son owns a house worth about the same value as ours, he's earning £45k. Social housing here is not the stigma it is elsewhere in the World, it's a leg up to being productive, getting a good job, raising a family, other families may have rich parents able to give their children a leg up, and they do great, but our society gives people the means to take that leg up, you just have to put the effort into it.
This comment is about Halloween as you mentioned it so Halloween originated over 2000 years ago in Ireland America did not invent it you are such a young country compared to others who have been around for thousand of years but I do agree if you haven't travelled and your not interested in learning about other countries then it is understandable xx however I'm a 65 year old British woman who prides herself she has learnt about other cultures and my life feels richer for it xx
Social housing does not necessarily mean that the rent is being paid for by the government directly. It often means that the house owner got state support in building the house, or in a multi-flat house it can be part of local regulations that a certain share of flats must be social housing. This has two effects: Rent is capped for social housing. The house owner can only ask for this amount of rent, not more. But, in order to be allowed to rent that space, you need to have a certificate that you're eligible, e.g. because you have a low income, you're disabled, etc. In general, you'd still have to pay your rent yourself. You might be eligible to additional support allowing you to pay that rent, but normally it would go via your bank account. One reason is privacy - your landlord doesn't need to know these details about you. The other is dignity. You're an adult. You're trusted to handle things yourself.
the freedom thing always makes me lol i think we have more freedoms in uk that you do in the states to name some, We can cross a road without being Fined. We can drive a vehicle without having to carry a licence or insurance papers or ownership papers within the vehicle. We can drink a beer from the age of 5 without getting a criminal record. 28 days of statutory paid holiday a year open access land by law so we can walk though country side and farms women have rights to there own bodies
@@tracymcardle1236 its called jay walking and is illegal you get slapped with a fine anywhere from $25 to $250 depending on the state if you dont cross at the lights and only when the lights say you can walk
Here in Germany, it's in coming to reduce the weekly worktime to 4 days a 10 hours. So you have 4 days intensiv work and than 3 days FREE. The employee work the same hours but is more motivated, more concentrated and is more satisfyed having more time for himself and his family. To the yearly payed holidays of 30 days there are additionally 15 federal and church holidays. (By the way, payed sickdays are 78 weeks limited.)
There was an era in the 90s when Britain demolished many ghettoised social housing estates after learning that mixed communities create better social ladder and keeps community dynamics great with high aspirations for children. Since then social housing is required as part of new developments and councils procure social housing places in great areas.
I live in scandinavia and my 13 year old daughter fell of the boat...she was wearing a west and within 45 seconds we had her back in the boat. We called the emergency to talk to someone what to do. They sent a helicopter to the shore and came out with an ambulance boat to get us. Was taken to a hospital by helicopter. Got checked by an neurodoctor and a regular doctor and taken x-Ray of the spine and neck. She was fine and we went home. 2 days later the doctor called to check if evrything was ok. We ofcourse did not pay anything....it's crazy how americans think we get bad healthcare just becouse we have a social healthcaresystem🙄
weil Amerikaner keine richtige Bildung haben und in der USA BUBBLE leben und denken sie sind die besten der Welt.
That's Scandinavia. Three of the richest countries in the world with excellent social care. And lovely blond men and women. They are not savage Vikings and developed much of the towns of the countries theynraided anyway. .. but tr is a Vest in English. And volks vagon is German not Scandinavia
@@bartconnolly6104 aucun rapport avec la richesse d'un pays mais plutot comment sont redistribuées les richesses produites par les travailleurs...
En france la medecine est gratuite(ainsi que l'école jusqu'à 16 ans) et on soigne aussi les étrangers gratuitement...et la France et loin de faire parti des 3 pays les plus riches...
Autre exemple, cuba sous embargos americain infâme depuis plus de 50 ans(honte à eux) à pourtant une des meilleures médecines du monde et accessible à tout le pays...pendant le covid c'était un des rares pays du monde à avoir produit son propre vaccin...et que je sache Cuba ne fait pas du tout parti des pays les plus riches...
Bref tout ca pour dire que c'est pas la richesse d'un pays qui fait qu'il y a une bonne politique de santé mais des décisions politiques qui le permettent...
Obama a mis en place le "care système" et trump l'a viré le mendat suivant...en france on a créé la sécurité sociale (i dont know how to say in english "social help" ?) apres la seconde guerre mondiale sauf que nous on l'a toujours... ;)
Les dirigeants amzricains(et les gens qui les élisent) choisissent de laisser crever les pauvres pendant que les riches peuvent se faire soigner en échange d'une fortune...c'est un choix politique pas du tout une fatalité...!!!
@@erfer1134 I don't agree with your quasi Marxist analysis. In Cuba for example I know of someone who trained as a dentist and was put managing a coffee shop by the State. If they opened their borders many of their own people would leave.
I have lived in France and yes their health system is better than elsewhere. I dont regard the US as the best in the World even if they have the best doctors. It favours the rich and those with Health insurance.
Social Insurance ...yes it cover health etc. Similar in Ireland. and is pay related ...PRSI
It is "no frills" health care with longer queues ...BUT you get the SAME doctors treating you as private care.
I do not totally disagree with you.
One remarkable comparison is Norway vs UK. Fifty years ago, post WWII Norway was an undeveloped country. Then North Sea Oil was discovered. The UK allowed US companies drill and extract profits. Norway did not! They set up State companies and they reinvested the money in social infrastructure. Scotland got little or nothing for North Sea Oil. Norway got good housing health and education .
Well I'm from Argentina a third world country for some people, and yes the corruption always held us back. But we have public schools, public universities (and it is not easy to graduate of them if you don't study hard, and people really values a diploma of those universities when you're looking for a job) and free hospital (are they great ,no, they lack of money support, supplies but the professional are the best and the same that treat you in a private facility) but nobody would expect to be really sick to call an ambulance, or to make an illness worse but not going to the doctor, yes of course if you have your prepaid health insurance or your social health insurance you would prefer to go to private hospitals with better service (I mean nice place, more nurse control, cleanest places) but the doctors and nurses in public or private are mostly excellent, the thing is that government should use our taxes money to improve hospital school and less in putting that money in their pockets or their campaign , or brainwashing generations, but this is another topic.
If you get in an accident in my country you will be attended, without loosing your financial life
Australian here. Last week was mounting biking with friend and his 13 yo son. He fell off a jump. Ambulance came and just to be sure he had no spine injury they arranged a helicopter to fly him to the children's hospital in Melbourne to get an MRI. He was all OK in the end. Cost was zero.
"Cost was zero."
As it should be.
A society that doesn't cover the medical treatment of underage children in emergencies - even though there is enough wealth to do so - has no right to exist, IMO.
The thought that parents in the US have to start GoFundMe campaigns and beg for money, so they can pay for their children's lifesaving medical procedures makes me boil with rage.
Cost was 0? What is the minimum (and overall) tax rate in your nation again at the LOWEST levels? Oh, that's right. The poor class pays 19%. The lowly class pays almost 33%. The middle class pays 45%.
Do you want to know why Australia's crime rate is going up, and why poverty induced crime is as well? Because you're taxing everyone into poverty.
Your cost is not 0. It's extremely expensive.
@@BrokenCurtain Your opinion is noted, and ignored. A society that enslaves people based on emotional feedback is no society that will function for long. Australia is falling apart and falling into Fascism faster than anyone expected, just Like Canada and most of Europe now.
Pretty sure when you FORCE people to provide a service, it's called slavery....
@@hyperionsf3220 Cost was zero for the individual as it should be. The cost is for society, so everyone pays its bearable share.
@@RealConstructor You are not my responsibility, nor are my children yours. You share your burden with yourself, so you don't over burden me with your drama.
What kind of immoral and unethical tyrant are you to demand I pay for YOUR problems?
I'm a Spanish optician and two years ago I had to calculate a prescription for a man that did Olympic Shooting. He came with the rifle, inside a special case with a numeric lock and all the papers (rifle identity card, his identity card, his federation card, psychological assesment...) because if a police saw him with it and didn't had the papers with him, he would be arrested. He only can use it in a controlled enviroment and he came without ammunition because it was prohibited because my work place wasn't a controlled enviroment. But you can have guns in Spain.
For the pledge to the flag, nearly every European is going to raise an alarm. Here in Spain we had something similar to a pledge to the flag in our dictatorial times. Usually Europeans asociate this pledge to a darker times.
The pledge is definitely a strange one. If someone is free, why are they forced to pledge allegience in school. Where I live you would only make an oath if you were joining the army or police something like that.
Imagine they pledged alliance in Iran.
In Canada, we don't have an 'every man for himself' mindset. The social safety net is integral to our societal values. On my street there are million dollar homes, doctors, actors, minimum wage earners, and people on social assistance/subsidized housing. So people of all socio-economic backgrounds live side by side. Having it highly visible forces people to address social problems, builds cohesion, and helps reduce crime. The marginalized aren't desperate and know society cares about them. It makes a BIG difference.
That’s evil socialism don’t you see that ;)
The irony is that America today has social segregation and they don’t even see it.
I mean you have to buy a house in an area that has good schools and those houses are not cheap thus you divide separate the have from not have and limit social mobility instantly.
It is kinda shocking to me to see this.
And they are even fine with it …
We could do a whole lot better tho. We are really only good compared to USA standards compared to Europe and Australia we kind of suck on healthcare,education and workers rights.
I lived in Spain for 11 years. It's incredibly safe and the people are amazing.
I'm in Malaysia and last year my boss "forced" me to take my remaining allocated paid annual leave (I only took 12 out of 21 days). It was already December and he's like u HAVE to take your remaining 9 days off before the end of the year. He wasn't messing around and was quite annoyed. Apparently if u don't take all the days off, the higherups and HR will question him and he might be accused of overworking the staff in our dept (something like that)
Yep, I have had the same in the UK. My boss was like "if you don't book 2 weeks off soon, I'l have to force them on you!"
I think the companies get penalised by law if staff don't take the time off they are allocated. This stops companies from blackmailing staff into saying it's their choice they didn't take all their leave.
We will gladly take your vacation for you if you don't want to next time ! ahaha
@@welshgit haha exactly I live in the UK too and a couple of weeks ago my manager said the same thing about if I don’t take my remaining holidays they will be forced upon me 😂. So now I’m here chilling for 2 weeks 😂
I have a few weeks left to take too and my boss told me that I MUST take them before the end of the year, so now I am on holiday for a couple of weeks, then I'll take the rest around the Christmas 😂
One problem in my company was that employees used to save their holidays, ending up with hundreds of days to take. Which they usually took at the end of their career in order to retire earlier. A big hassle for HR.
And if you don't take your days in time you simply get money instead. Which is not an advantage considering our high taxes.
I'm so glad to see more and more USAians waking up
As a person recieving disability benefit I am grateful i live in Norway .People on disability benefit is seen as a people with steady income and you can get a loan to buy a apartment .I am so grateful for owing my own little apartment 🙏🏡 ❤️
How weird to see someone in same situation as myself.... And yeah I'm so glad I live in Norway....I own my own apartment... In US I would have lived in a tent......at best. You can keep that.
Wtf, How 🤔
I'm in UK 🇬🇧, IF Savings Over 6k, Benefit, Docked, Max 16k, Then Stopped.
You, Can Have, (by the sounds of it), 99k, to get your own home, &, Still, Getting Aid!
How?!😮
@user-kv8ti6bp5n In Norway, we have a bank call house bank that gives people with disability benefit a loan without having any savings. Disability benefit is seen as a regular income here. 🙂
The part buy part rent scheme here in the UK is called shared ownership. Buyers raise a mortgage on the share they are buying and pay a subsidised rent on the share they don’t own. They can buy more shares later if they wish, but there’s no deadline or requirement to do that. They have similar rights and responsibilities as outright owners.
Your reactions are refreshingly genuine. No over the top unnecessary emotional outbursts. Really like how your educating yourselves with humility and open mindedness. Keep up the channel please 👍
The fragment about a person being responsive or not, in order for the ambulance to come or not (around 30:40), is totally alien to me.
I live in Poland. If You have an accident here - you call emergency services. If someone else nearby had an accident - you call emergency services. They will only ask for the address.
The will pick you up, no matter the insurance, and then drop you at the nearest hospital ER, where you'd get triaged. Depending on the severity of your injury, you will either wait for hours, or be admitted to the relevant operating theater as fast as possible/feasible.
Free of charge.
Same in Spain 👍
I cannot understand how they can ask the person making the call to give an opinion (other than if he is responsive or not). He is not a doctor and even if the person who is hurt does answer who knows what can happen once the call is over.
Feeling somewhat unwell I was admitted so fast that I began to worry. I was right, unfortunately, and left the hospital one month and a half later.
Same in Germany! I'm so glad we do have this. The emergency call, will ask a bunch of questions, but in between they are already on the way to you. It's mostly to get a clue about if they need a helicopter, ir or a special doctor ready! Or need to send one as well. Bc here we have only emergency paramedics in the ambulance, not a physician. And to help the caller and calm everyone down!
In the uk they make lots of questions and if the person is conscious is the bigger one and it’s mainly to know if the person has any major health problems like pacemaker/ medication allergies etc…so the can better access the patients.
Spain is definitely a great country !!
I've been lucky enough to spend 2 years there and i loved it. Beautiful cities, amazing landscapes, great people, fantastic food, unbelievable night life. A total blast !!
And when it comes to safety well ...
Just one example that speaks for itself : in 2017, in Madrid; the capital and largest city with almost 7 million people, "only" (it's always to much but you know what i mean) 16 people were murdered. Not 16 per 100.000. 16 in total ! The same year in LA, a city of less than 4 million people, the homicide rate was 7.01 per 100,000 people ...
In 2016, 294 homicides in Spain. The same year, 762 in Chicago only.
Crime rate in Spain : 0.6 per 100.000 (one of the lowest worldwide) / it's 5.4 in the US.
No comment needed, i guess.
Your cousin will be fine !!
i also lived in spain for 15 years and i agree with everthing you said
@@aza2k11 hey... no comments needed 🤣
@@Hansen710 That's not what i meant lol !!! I was just saying commenting on the crime rate in the US compared to any western European country is useless cause we all know how much safer it is here, right ? But yeah let's praise Spain. That country totally deserves it. Even if, like anywhere else, nothing's perfect and the country has its own flaws and problems, but who doesn't ?
257 homicides in germany in 2021... also pretty safe imo
@@ingomenssen56 Uhm. Yes. Europe is very safe, with a few e xceptions. Should go without saying. Meanwhile the US ranks 129th when you list safety in different countries... Germany? 16th. Spain? 30th. Of the 10 safest countries, 7 are in Europe.
Why is this even something to talk about lol. Everyone knows Europe is safe and that America stands out as an unusually unsafe country to be in.
Here in Croatia, which is part of the European Union, you can have weapons, but it is strictly regulated. For example, you have to undergo an examination by a psychiatrist and a psychologist to assess how mentally stable you are in order to avoid giving a gun license to someone who is mentally unstable or distracted because that person would probably be potentially dangerous.
You guys are great, keep it up, greetings from Croatia
(Sorry for my English if I wrote something wrong)
Yes, however ex-yu people possess the highest amount of illegal weapons on the whole continent, Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia. Especially in smaller places people are armed to their teeth or at least has knowledge how to get a gun fast. Not to rain on your parade, Ex-yu is pretty safe, been many times in almost all countries, but there's weapons, saw it myself XD
@@mementomori1900 I went to Croatia by Bus in 1986 or so, they had ammonition and gun shells in every Cafe abroad, sorted from small to big, in Osijek all glas was gone, sand bags everywhere.
@@Jpeg13759 1986 seems unlikely, sounds more like the 90's? Yugoslavia run tight ship on the 80s But who knows, Osijek used to be quite nice student town at the time.
@@mementomori1900 90is ok, i had an uncle there, and a nice, saw burned cars and broken windows...
@@Jpeg13759 That was during or immediately after the war, not realy relatable to the present state of affairs.
The Swedish experiment was conducted in the city of Gothenburg, where the municipal government reduced the number of hours worked by staff in an old people's home and a surgical ward form 8 hours a day to 6 hours a day. The experiment lasted for two years and was a great success. It reduced absenteeism by almost 20%
As a Norwegian, one thing that has always puzzled me about the US is this, USA is one country, why does it act like it is 50 different countries? Just have the same laws across every state....
we ask our selves this exact question ALL of the time lol
That's actually pretty common European (mis)thinking of US, that there is homogeneous America, that there is "American accent", that how something is in "America". Europe is very different place depending in which country you are, but I believe so is US depending which State you are in.
@@puhistagram it's not comparable though
@@Darling_Nicci I agree, you are right. My point was US is not homogenous but diverse... maybe I was a bit off tho..
@@puhistagram but that's everywhere tho I think most european countries have a much bigger range of accents than the entire US. And we have something like states too for example in germany we have 16 different states (we call it Bundesland) with different laws aswell. Though I believe there are more federal regulations than in america but still I believe one of the biggest misconceptions of americans is that you believe europe is comparable to the USA. It definetly is not that's like lumping in Canada and Mexico with the US I've never been in any country but from what I hear they are three very different places
I'm in Melbourne, Australia, and I was curiously looking at react videos by people in the USA because I feel like you're trapped and slowly realising it.
I wasn't sure about the longer style video, but I have come around to it because I am watching you learn and have lengthy discussions. I'm very proud of you both for actively education yourself and seeing the flaws of your country. I hope many other youths in your country watch you and feel inspired to learn.
In Ohio they took the homeless and put them in housing and gave them a process of buying the house over 15 years. It was very successful and lessoned the need for homeless services and worked out cheaper. That was about 8 to 10 years ago.
I wonder if that still exist because it would be awesome if so
damn, i am in EU, my child had allergic reaction on skin (nothing really serious) and we called like childrens doctor hotline and asked what to do and they said just call an ambulance just in case so yeah, I cant imagine not having social healthcare...
In Sweden we have social security contributions if you are without income and as I remember they pay FULL rent, electricity bills, food and clothes until you get a job. We even have rent allowances from the government if you have lower income and if you are a pensioners where they help you with up to 93% of the rent.
it's similar in Germany; not that everything is paid fully, but you can get financial support for some things like furniture, etc,
Yes. As someone who is longterm sick and never had a real work, i get full rent + some extra to pay bills and buy food. Its about 12 000 kr per month and i can also take out stuff like free gym pass, cheaper bus passes and have a cost cap on dentist costs (if its because one of the reasons they have listed on their site).
Sorry, not for business owners who lost their company to bankruptcy. We're out in the cold.
In Denmark, if you lose your job (some stipulations like you have to have had worked in this job for like at least 2 or 3 years to qualify) the government pays you like 80% of the salary you had in this job for up to 6 months. It's basically designed to give you the security to find a similar job in your field without the stress of having no income or forcing yourself to take a low entry level job just to make ends meet.
Similar in Denmark Scandinavian and most of Europe is amazing in this aspect way ahead of a lot of other nations.
I'm from Switzerland and yes, there are quite a lot of people who have guns here but you have to go through extensive psychological evaluation and long background checks in order to buy one. If you got any kind of criminal record, doesn't matter what kind, you can't buy a gun. You're not allowed to openly carry it around either. You can't just walk into a grocery store with your gun strapped to you and you also have to regularly go to a shooting range and train in order to make sure you can actually handle a gun properly. I think what makes a huge difference to the US is that people here don't buy guns as a means to protect themselves, wether that's in public or in their own homes. They buy them either as collectors or with the purpose of using them on shooting ranges as a hobby. Ppl don't feel the need to carry guns on them because we don't need to. Gun related violence here is basically zero because again, ppl don't see guns as a right or need but as a luxury i guess you could say.
My family lives there and when i visited them i think i maybe saw 1 gun. Scared the shit out of me at first site but then i realized its probably some military dude.
And its the same laws here in Sweden, well, atleast nearly same. We ofc use most of our guns for hunting. Almost everyone here have a hunter in the family. Its either hunters or military /ex military that has guns, basicly noone else. Never seen one out on the streets.
Similar in Spain, but is not a kind of luxury or collection, just military, hunters, security profesional, police...
What matters is the value of life..
No matter all those rules, you have alot of guns..
But you do not learn some people are worthless.
or they should be shot if they do a simple crime.
And if people walk in your front yard, they are less worth then a cat
I dont think all those rules stop most people from using the gun wrong, i believe it is in the culture and how we raise children..
Where im from everyone learns they are not worth more then other people..
In the states its kind of the other way around..
Also the guns can only be a little bit of the problem.
What about stuff like using first aid on other people.
And care for other people.
With a culture like that, alot of people must also die without guns being used
The hospitals i the states shows to some degree the value of human life over there.
Most other countrys dont care about how you are going to pay, before they start treatment
And Swiss is a nation of soldiers with regular military trainings. Usealy the Swiss keep their army equipment including guns at home, in safety place.
That's roughly the same process here in the UK. For certain groups of people who require fire arms the it's very restricted process. That said there areas of the UK parts of London, Manchester, Liverpool,Birmingham were gun crime is problematic usually around drugs.
UK police only fire arms as last resort but often they get deployed is anyone's guess. We do unfortunately have a real issue with knife crime. It's at epidemic levels.
In the UK if you call emergency. Services,ambulance ,fire brigade police,they will ask questions like " Is the person responsive " because it helps them asses the condition of patient, the more information they have will help them to respond in the best way for patient ,same for police,fire brigade,the more information they have the better ,more appropriate their response ❤️.
If you have to carry a gun to feel safe, you're only afraid, but you're not free at all. As simple as that.
For the partial homeownership in the uk, as he said you apply to buy a percentage and the rest is owned by either the local council if it's part of social housing or by the housing developer if it is a new build. You go through the normal buying process for your percent like a deposit, mortgage etc... and then just pay a reduced rent to whoever owns the rest. You'll end up paying a partial mortgage plus a reduced rent each month. May not be any cheaper to start but the point is you're on the property ladder, the value of you're percentage will increase and most places will eventually give you the opportunity to buy the rest of the property.
I wish we had that in denmark..
owning your own in some places, makes people rich..
And pays more then a good job.
Not many places loses value..
renting or owning devides people into sepperate classes more and more
ahh thanks so much for clearing that up for us !
In the UK, planning permission is required for any new housing development. One condition of the planning permission is that a percentage of the new build has to be "affordable housing".
The easiest way for developers to meet these conditions is to build an apartment block of one and two bedroom apartments, rather than building lots of small houses.
Depends where you live. In my area, the affordable housing is always 2-3 bedroom houses.
@@amyw6808 affordable housing? It's a joke. If builders construct small development, say less than 12, they do not need to build affordable housing. There's an awful lot of small closes and crescents with 8 - 10 houses in my area
@@amyw6808 That SHOULD be affordable housing. The issue is we don't have rent/price control for property.
Brexit has been a disaster and many Brits are doing better than many Americans. So embarrassing.
Generally the requirement is for the affordable housing to be 'tenure blind' so it looks the same as general market houisng. On smaller developments under 10 units, there is sometimes a requirememt for the developer to pay a financial contribution towards affordable. Its a drop on the ocean. The government needs to build more affordable housing rather than relying on developers.
In the UK, we have rent assistance. If you are on low income or cannot afford your rent, that state pays or tops up so you are not left homeless. These programs are means tested so they system is not abused. We also have shared ownership housing - which is again means tested but allows you to buy a % of the home you can afford. Helps ppl build capital.
Never heard it called rent assistance. It's housing benefit.
@@leec6707 But you clearly understood, so lol
That's about to disappear soon, just so you know. Your nation is barely able to afford its incredibly small military, and it's racking up an insane debt. If war breaks out with Russia, then China and Iran will also get involved starting WWIII, and you can say goodbye to all of your welfare programs, and you'll see why Americans were right when they said not to rely on the government and let them control so much of your economy.
@@hyperionsf3220 we are the 6th biggest economy in the world - you reckon that’s about to slip to nothing - keep dreaming lol
This is called having a decent social security net.
All developed countries have this.
USA is not a developed country.
I recently realized that in the USA it seems that when you go to sleep you check if there is socialism or communism under the bed and not the monster, it seems the thing you are most afraid of , I live in that type of house in Italy with my grandmother, we pay € 153 plus a few cents of rent, in case in a certain month you are unable to pay here you can pay the rent not immediately and wait for the month after the arrival of the bill, they don't bother you for just one month
So Vladimir Lenin and Adolf Hitler aren't monsters to you?
@@hyperionsf3220 you did not understand what I wrote, I meant that in the USA they say that here we are all communists or socialists etc. because we live in a certain way and we have better things than them, like the health system, more rights at work and much more, but in the end they always use the term communist or socialist to scare their people, If something happens or someone tries to change something in their country for the better it is a socialist or communist for them
@@andreanecchi5930 The health system of Europe, Australia, and Canada is not better. A simple fact is that people of those areas come to America for life threatening illnesses to save their lives. Before Bill Clinton was in office, medical care in the US cost less than half of all those other nations. The Democrats in this nation, people you support, are intentionally sabotaging the healthcare system so that ignoramuses (people like you) think there's something wrong. However, the intelligent people know this is a farce and already called it out.
Rights and privileges aren't mutually exclusive. I'd say your education is far inferior to the US', even with the massive decline thanks to the Socialist Jimmy Carter, who implemented the Department of Education, which saw a drastic reduction in results.
Both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin stated to make it appear as if you're a benevolent government, as to acquire more power willingly from the people. Now why is it that two of some of the worst people in history have said this, and you're falling for it, and admitting that you're falling for it?
Nah, I think going to war with the Democrats again, and reversing all of their damage, is the quickest and cleanest method of getting things back on track and proving once again, that America is superior to all the slave nations like the ones mentioned above.
@@hyperionsf3220 just your question shows you are very ill informed
@@hartjeslips4061 True or false, the Fascists and Marxists force implemented Nationalized Healthcare?
Also, claiming it would be cheaper and save more lives, only to do the opposite and even be used as a tool by government to remove their own citizens for having diseases that government officials deemed "incurable" simply because of cost? Or do I need to remind you of what your system did to Charlie Gaard?
Sounds to me like the idiot socialist is the one who is ill informed.
Love you guys!! Appreciate the passion that you’re bringing when it comes to the injustices in this world. Keep up the good fight!
Love ya too!!! haha thanks so much for your support, we appreciate it greatly
Actually it's not "use it or lose it", you have to use your days off, it's illegal to not use it xD And emplyers not employees can get in trouble for that.
When it comes to public healhcare, even in my country (Poland) it works pretty well, once my grandma slipped on ice and broke her cotyloid cavity, ambulance took her to the hospital, in a few days she had a surgery and they've implanted her an endoprosthesis, she had rehabilitation etc. the overall cost was like 20$ for medicines. And Polish heathcare is consider shitty in comparison to countries like Germany or Sweden ;p
Same in France about "use it or lose it", you HAVE to take your 5 weeks. Period. Actually, people just WANT their 5 weeks, be it the manager or the employees "underneath". We think it's just normal to have them (and use them). Managers don't even think of legal consequences, that's the law so everybody has to use it. France was the first country to implement it (back in 1859!! but only for the "fonctionnaires", fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cong%C3%A9s_pay%C3%A9sfr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cong%C3%A9s_pay%C3%A9s btw it's interesting how shorter the english page is compared to the french one...) maybe that's why we think it's normal... And don't think our 35-hour/week and 5 weeks of holiday affects our productivity: France is in the top five countries regarding productivity cz.ambafrance.org/La-productivite-francaise-parmi-les-plus (dates of 2012, productivity has slightly declined by now)
I really like your comments and your way of thinking. I wish you much success. Greetings from the other side of the world - sunny Bulgaria. Our workers have 20 days of paid leave + national holidays, for 2022 they are: January 1 and 3; March 3 - our independence day; April 22, 23, 24, 25, May 2, 6 and 24; September 6 and 22; December 24, 25, 26, 27, 28. All of these are separate from paid leave. If the business cannot close for Christmas, for example, and employees must be at work - hotels, restaurants, shops, etc. employers must pay double the wage.
Hi, I am from Serbia, and even though we are still not a part of EU, we always had payed vacation from work (20+ days) And in the last 10+ years You HAVE to take Your time off or the company will be in problem. Earlier we could save same days off and transfer to next year, now we have to use it all - by law.
Bata Vlado, ja sam poklonio firmi drugi deo odmora.
To je bilo prošle godine, i ta firma (državna) nije bila u problemu.
Ali zato imam svaki vikend slobodan, radničke igre, putovanje negde u inostranstvo povodom osmog Marta ( imaju pravo da idu i kolege, a ne samo koleginice), i plus jubilarne pare (10 godina rada, zatim 20, 30, 35 i 40).
Radno vreme mi se vodi 8 sati, a pošto radim na terenu, svakako nisam svih 8 sati u efektivnom radu.
Posao može da se završi i za 5 sati rada, a sve ostalo je slobodno vreme (to je po meni najveće bogatstvo danas kada se brzo živi).
By the way.. those 20 days off are just for vacation. Bank holidays come on top. And if you are sick, you are sick… don’t come in.
I had 2 emergency surgeries, scheduled surgery, pneumonia, mastoiditis and had 3 ambulances. I had a scan and had a 3/4 inch blood clot in my neck. I spent a month in hospital and had nurses visit my house daily for 6 weeks to give me intravenous antibiotics. Total cost to me was $0.
In addition I am diabetic so all of my medication is totally free. Not just my insulin but any medication for any illness.
My ex boss was US based, ruthless, heartless, jealous and on the verge of simply cruel.
Every billionaire is a walking, talking and living crime.
fun fact ... portugal/switzerland/austria & scandinavian countries have the same percentages of gubs per household as the US ,,, we just dont use them to shoot eachother
I couldn't imagine not having times off. I'm a teacher in France, i get 2 weeks off every 7 to 8 weeks and 6 weeks off in the summer. I can do what i love on the side and my work is not the center of my life. I feel very lucky! Hope you guys get that one day in the us. Love the videos, keep up the good work
wow thats awesome . Curious if your summer is paid leave ?? and thanks for your comment !
@@loners4life Yes, all is paid. The only time i get no pay is if i go on strike haha
Is that specifically your profession or all employees in France?
Yeah, that's specific to National education jobs
@@charisma-hornum-fries We have an entire book of laws dedicated to jobs, "le Code du Travail". I'm gonna simplify and summarize to the extreme here but in general everyone who works full time is entitled to 5 weeks per year paid leave, at minimum, and then you have specific "amendments" (Conventions) to these laws for specific jobs (for exemple education jobs)
I'm from Spain and there's this phrase that resumes it perfectly "I don't need to be the wealthiest on the graveyard". Or this other one "Why do you work that hard? Like if you were going to inherit the company."
Halloween is a celtic tradition that originated in the UK and Ireland, that's why it's mostly celebrated in those countries and in places with many migrants from Scotland and Ireland. It has spread to other countries in recent years, though.
Other countries have related traditions - All Saints' Day is a Christian holiday, after all. It's usually celebrated more solemnly, though.
Then there are other holidays and traditions around the same time: in England, there's Bonfire Night on November 5th ("Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot"), and in the Protestant regions in Northern Germany, children go from house to house with lanterns on November 11th ("St. Martin's Day), singing songs in exchange for sweets. And in early December, there are the so-called "Krampus runs" in the regions in and around the Alps, where people dress up as demons to give people a scare.
And in sweden we have St Lucia on 13th december. A long history but basicly she is the bringer of light on the darkest day of the year.
In protestant regions of The Netherlands we also have Sint Maarten on November 11th. Children go door to door with a lantern and sing to get candy in return.
Germany has the "Walpurgisnacht", which is celebrated at the end of April and is very similar to the pagan spirit of Halloween. It's not a holiday, though.
@@BrokenCurtain Nordic countries have that aswell. We call it Valborg or Valborgsmässoafton. Some other countries have it aswell, Slovenia is one of them i think.
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Basically the rule of thumb is that you're not allowed a gun in Europe if you have mental health problems or a criminal history and things like guns, cars etc is seen as a privilege, not a right, so you have to show that you're worthy of it by learning how to handle them safely, and you can lose the privilege if you misbehave.
The details varies greatly from country to country though.
But that's the essence.
You're not allowed to own something that can potentially kill hundreds of people without showing that you're not a complete idiot, be that a gun, a car or a plane or anything else.
In a country with less restrict gun laws it's less likely that people help each others. If someone could pull a gun every moment would you try to stop a robbery? Help someone who is confused and not in a clear mind? Walk up to a car or place you heard strange noises? Or would you ignore it, or call the police in hope they would do the right thing? And the police has to act with the same suspicions. Loose gun laws breed violence independent if they are used or not.
true. especially as of lately, more people who usually would help others are extra cautious and less trusting now
In Germany for the most Jobs, we train 3 to 3,5 years.... In the US police train 5 months... And have a gun---So here we, Re Not afraid of cops....
Hiyah.. Love your videos.. love the relaxed conversational style.. Just to let you know, if you don't already know, Halloween originated in Ireland, as an ancient Celtic pagan festival. BTW Celtic is pronounced Keltic not Seltic. The native Irish word for Halloween is Samhain pronounced Sow.-in, sow as in how. Remember Irish is a different language to English and is much older,
so using the english alphabet to try to pronounce Irish words will never work as the languages have nothing in common. Anyway looking forward to your future videos. Byeeeeeeee
ohh nice! Thanks for filling us in, we feel like we've heard it originating in Ireland before but totally forgot. haha Also, thanks for taking the time to comment
Like so much else, Halloween was exported to America by the British.
Slainthe! 😊🍻
4:44: "Thinking for yourself" I just listened to a Russian youtuber explaining/criticizing how the media (in Russia) are used to shape the minds and way the locals see the world. Looking from Europe at the USA and Russia I see many similarities. In both cases oligarch (or capitalists as they are called in the USA) try to make things optimal for themselves.
As a European I get information from several countries and different sources that try to influence me in different ways but contradict each other. And I have friends and colleagues that intimately know other languages, cultures and religions or are part of it. The result is, that I am forced to find my own point of view. Often countries even have media that by law have to be impartial (and are basically financed by the government/community to do so).
Social Housing:
I came across two examples in Belgium. One was just random apartments in existing buildings. A few of those apartments were available for rent, but there were no immediate takers. So, the government put people in there who needed housing with the government paying at a reduced rate. This way the landlord got at least some money, rather than having it sit empty. This was a temporary solution. More permanent: An old building in the middle of town was torn down (It was pretty much falling apart anyway.) The new apartment building was designed specifically with social housing in mind, but instead of being hidden on the outskirts of town, it was right in the centre. Again, everyone benefited. Land in that place was incredibly expensive and noone was willing to build commercially because of the cost. So, the government stepped in. better than having that old building slowly rot away.
So I think the “partial ownership” means that you pay less for your rent but even at that a portion of that rent contributes to a fund that gives you equity in the home. This is good on a couple of fronts: 1. You can eventually gather enough equity to be able to put a down payment on a home that is not part of Social Housing; 2. Being an owner means you are more motivated to keep your property looking good.
There's tax breaks associated with being a first time buyer, you typically pay a market appropriate rent but due to the tax breaks build up equity in the property. The contract is basically the same as a mortgage, and completly unlike a rental agreement.
Maybe one day Americans will understand how awesome the Europeans take on social democracy is
because as soon as they hear the word social
they think its socialist
@@teestees1115 without even understanding what it means and confusing it with communism. The good ol‘ patriotic brain wash.
i have my doubts on that one, after all, just the other day i, as a german, stated that healthcare is a (constitutional) right in germany and not a privilege. the americans went crazy... there was even one who claimed that healthcar is not a right because God... like wth?
@@raistormrs
In the USA healthcare is a privilege
guns is a right
@@teestees1115 the interesting thing is, it could be one, but they made sure it isn't by clearly defining the bodily integrity part, in europe and other areas on the planet, health is a part of that but not in the US and not in the universal declaration of human rights because they made sure that it only defines what countries can not do, not what they should do. now who would be brave, or stupid, enough to try and drag the US in front of the international court? that could be fun to watch actually...
its not low costing housing, its the same houses, builders have to give over a percentage of any of the houses they build in an estate to social housing
In the UK we get a mandated 28 days vacation per year plus 9 public holidays. Some companies have tried giving unlimited time off - take as much time off, whenever you want, and found that people were actually taking less time off because they weren't taking vacations just so they don't lose them and instead just taking what they need.
no, we don't have that much.
Doesn't that depend on how you're paid? If you are paid hourly it would be hard to figure that out or?
@@charisma-hornum-fries No, it wouldn't make the slightest difference.
Why would it? Everyone knows a working week is circa 35-40 hours.
@@sandersson2813 Statutory annual leave entitlement:
Most workers who work a 5-day week must receive at least 28 days’ paid annual leave a year. This is the equivalent of 5.6 weeks of holiday.
That is direct from Govmt website.
@@DruncanUK The claim was we get 37 days holiday legally, which we don't.
Austrian here. I think we have a different understanding what sozial housing is. For example every 4th person in Vienna lives in sozial housing.
They are still living in an American bubble, without any transparency. Think they are wide minded, but cannot imagine what other countries are truly like.
Luxembourg. Marijuana, Prostitution, Abortion, Assisted Suicide for the terminally ill, all legal. Minimum 25 days paid holiday per year plus 12 paid public holidays. 40 hours per week.Universal healthcare ( on my $15 per hour minimum wage job I paid 3% tax for healthcare.) Unlimited paid sick days. Free education and further education. Children are paid an allowance until they finish school, up until 26 years old. Drinking age 16 years old. Free public transport.
I'm a Brit who came for a weekend in 1988, still here with $3000 per month pension. Low compared to everyone else but that's my fault.
See you soon?
When you buy a percentage of your home here in the UK, its usually on a part rent part buy basis. You buy 25% with a 25% mortgage, and you rent the remainder depending on the amount you've purchased. When this first started in the 80s your total rarely went over your total current rent. That's not the case these days as property prices have gone through the roof. We have whole areas where I live that are part rent part buy.
That’s not the normal way to buy. I know a few people who’ve done it that way but most people don’t.
@@amyw6808 there's a housing association where I live that has whole estates of part buy part rent....
Also typically when you buy more percentages it's usually a minimum amount e.g. 10% of whatever the value is at that time. Which makes it hard to save up enough to work your way up to 100
Jeez, this staff with flag is scary! Even we in Yugoslavia didn’t have such stuff. Maybe China have/had something like that🤔
We do not have Halloween, we have Remembrance of the Departed. We go visit the graves to place wreaths and flowers on them and to light the candles. You also had All Hollows Eve with similar traditions before it became commercialized.
Thank you for sharing ! Where do you live ?
@@loners4life Slovakia, right in middle of Europe.
In Switzerland people have guns being part of the the army. They (the men) have to go on training every few years again to keep them fit as soldiers (until a certain age). And with no doubt in the mountains there are groups that have the guns for the hunt, but their guns usually are kept in the clubhouse.
A lot of the EU countries that have lots of guns also have compulsory national service. They often get to keep their gun after this period and act as a militia during times of war. One of the reasons you don't want to invade these countries is that not only are there lots of guns, but the people holding them have the training and experience to use them well.
I live in a Council house (social home) and I was on the council list for 2 years and was given a brand new home built by the council for £85 (100bux) roughly a week. After about 5 years I contracted a lung disease and started to go blind (now fixed) and the council picked up 90% of that rent. just to add that my eye operation involved the removal of both lenses and replaced by new ones all for free! and I also get all my prescriptions for free delivered to my door for free! and yes the only place in the UK with free prescriptions is Scotland!
Why does everyone forget Wales? 🥺We also have free prescriptions, free dental treatments, mixed housing etc. Hey guys! We're down here, just opposite Ireland pretty much, lots of lovely coastline and all the other nice stuff!! Also more castles per capitia and a dragon flag.
He's not lying the place is beautiful!@@littlewoodimp
Very good point about crime. Nothing limits your freedom like the fear of crime.
Yes but the genesis of crime is poverty and parental guidance (though there good parents out there).
@@stephenanderson1594 interesting point. There is definitely a relationship between crime and poverty but clearly it’s complex. Poverty can cause some people to be criminals, a life of crime leads to poverty.
In Italy we also have a cap of 40 works hours a week. An employer can ASK an employee to work more with an official WRITTEN request, but the employee can refuse and if he accept he/she is paid DOUBLE check for those "extraordinary hours". If the employee try to force in some way an employee to work more than 40 hours (blackmailing the employee in some way) you can sue the employer to a "Job Judge" for very serious ripercussions
Portugal here and, as in all other comments, health, education and social support to those who need it most are available to all citizens.
Social democracy works and translates into quality of life and low crime.
Sounds like i should move from Denmark to portugal.
Much of that is more or less gone here.
Decent social programs doesn't mean Social democracy, Social democracy is basically communism light. The Scandinavian countries are more capitalist than the U.S, but still have a better quality of life and social safety nets.
My boyfriend was in Key West once. He was in a Bar and got "dehydrated" when he came off 🫣 I guess I don't have to explain his problem. So he sat on the Street, was 🤢🤮 and was really sick. Then two officer came by and asked him, if he's fine. He wasen't so he asked them to call an ambulance.
They asked him...I don't know...how often if he is sure that they should call one. They did...after he said "Please, call the f*ckin ambulance."
Here in Germany we learn that it's better to call an ambulance one more time than wait. What if it really is a serious condition? Better safe than sorry.
In the "worst case" they just check you, say "Oh, this is nothing serious. We don't have to take u to the hospital." and then they leave.
Social housing in Spain: It's not rent. The government buys property and lets you live there for free (you only cover your bills) if you live under a certain threshold of money. If you financially recover, you can opt to buy the house and start paying mortgage to the government or move out. So...pretty much a mortgage where the government is your landlord. Also, those houses are built, usually, right next to a police station, fire department etc so the crime rate is null.
A simple comparison of freedom between the U.S. and Europe: You can buy a gun in a shop and carry it around, even if you intimidate people. But you are not allowed to drink a beer out on the street. In Europe, you can buy, open carry and enjoy a beer in public, but regarding guns it's like the beer in the U.S., there are lots of restrictions and regulations. Question now is, are you more intimidated by someone carrying a gun or a beer open in public? Is the freedom to carry a gun but forbidding to drink a beer in public more freedom than vice versa?
Freedom also brings responsibility. Both in words and actions.
What freedom? What freedoms do you have that others dont have? xD
@@NuriBass69 It depends on what you're comparing.If you compare to Russia so much.If you compare to Russia sooo much. Even more than US. And after all, it is the "freest country in the whole world".
But if you read that original comment very slowly word by word, you can find that message somewhere.
UK, Social housing is not simply for people who do not work or you might consider inferior or criminal, it is people on low income because private housing costs can be 50% plus of income in some areas.
Second comment, sorry but first one was kind of off topic.
Now back to the video ...
French citizen here :
# - Freedom of speech : called liberté d'expression here (freedom of expression) It means you can freely express yourself vocally, in a book, in a drawing, a painting or any other possible way
Considered a basic human right from as far as 1789, in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (the text that later inspired the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN).
I believe it is well known worldwide how much we enjoy expressing ourselves, complaining and going on strikes to fight for our rights anyway. Not a surprise, i guess !
# - work life balance : full-time work week is 35 hours / 5th shortest work week on earth / Illegal for your boss to contact you (email, phonecall, text etc) during your time off (weekend, vacations, sick days etc) / 35 days of paid vacation a year on top of 5 national holidays. On average we work 500 hours less every year than an American employee. But our productivity is still 25% higher than average among OECD countries. And we retire at 62 and get paid for life. Minimum wage : €11.07, 2.01 % more than in 2021, increased every year based on calculations by the national institute for statistics and economic studies. (these calculations also regulate the maximum percentage for rent and grocery costs btw)
# - "social medicine" ... According to the WHO, we have the best healthcare worldwide. Sure we pay taxes; but at least they benefit us. Average healthcare spending for 2019 was $4,492 here / around $11.000 in the US ...
Everything is reimbursed, from 80 to 100%. You can have an additional private health insurance : €40 per month per person on average. Prescription drugs cost : insulin for example, on average is $9.08 in France / $98.70 in the US ...
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Healthcare Access and Quality index : The U.S. ranks last among comparable countries with a score of 88.7, compared to an average of 93.7 for comparable countries in 2016.
According to the Bloomberg health index ranking, France ranks 8th. For comparison, the United States 35th
Every year 58 Million American adults can’t afford prescription drugs. About a fifth of US adults have medical debt in collections, according to a recent study by the Journal of the American Medical Association. Every year 530,000 American families file for bankruptcy due to medical bills. US medical bills and indebtedness are responsible for 66.5% of all American personal insolvencies, (leading cause of bankruptcy in America, according to the National Consumer Law Center). 34 Million American adults know someone who died because they couldn’t afford treatment ... A 2009 study conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found 65,000 Americans die every year as a result of not having insurance
A total disgrace !!!
What most people don't realize is that money is a tool, never a goal.
But mainly, it’s value depends on what you can get with it not the amount itself
I live in the UK and I lost my business and therefore income due to illness in 2019 & I get my full rent paid for along with extra monetary help due to my now disability & also a break on paying Council Tax as I'm a Single Dad to 2 Teens. I'll get this help until I'm better and can work again.
Some stats:
Per 100k:
Spanish illegal homicide rate: 0.6
US illegal homicide: 6.3
Spanish gun deaths(2019): 2,670
US gun deaths(2017): 40,000+
In terms of the data, the US is a far more dangerous and violent country than Spain both on a per person level and globally. At over 40 thousand gun deaths per year in the US, the odds of seeing actual gun use is way above the average of most other countries in the world (2019 UN puts the US in the top third most violent countries on the planet).
You mentioned about there being no social housing in Malibu. I now live in Monaco, and have done for a number of years, and was very surprised to find that there is social housing here, but Monaco being Monaco, they are impossible to spot.
In my country (Bulgaria), Halloween is not an official holiday and we don't have the tradition of masked kids knocking on doors, asking for candy(which would be inconvenient, since most of us live in apartments in blocks of flats, rather than houses), but we still have some local events, mainly for grown ups, club parties, concerts, masked people on the streets, etc. Especially in the larger towns. It's more like an unofficial holiday. We like to party for whatever reason.
In one of you're other videos someone was moaning about you not using mike stands. Forget that, the way you're doing it is far more natural and real.
Hiii, you guys are so lovely to me. I'm an anthropologist, and I always love to see people interested in learning about other cultures, countries, people. And besides that, people who can take a little bit of jokes at their own expense. I only wisited North Carolina and I know it's only one state, and the US is so large, so there's much I don't know, and I would yet love to see, but I loved most of the American people I've get to know. They were friendly, welcoming, and wonderful people, and I've made many lovely friends. And the nature and food was so amazing. So cheers, much love and respect from Serbia, southeast Europe. Igor🙋🥰🇷🇸❤️🇺🇸🥂
In the UK you can have what is called rent to buy ,where you pay your rent and that goes towards buying the property, it could be part ownership or full ownership
In Australia, annual leave is enshrined in Law so Employers can’t refuse you, although you need to plan ahead, not just request it the day before. Most jobs get four weeks annual leave and it can be split into two periods if you apply for it.
Kudos. You guys are well informed and wise. If just your leaders were.
In the UK an ambulance is free all healthcare is free under the NHS. Last year my wife found me collapsed unconscious on the floor, the ambulance arrived in 8 minutes - i was rushed to hospital, CT scans, blood tests etc. After that all the serious things like stroke etc were ruled out I was discharged but referred to Neurology for more tests - i was under the care of neurology for 12 months and they saved my life. Of course it was all free, as it is for everyone living in the UK - god bless the NHS.
Switzerland is a neutral country but has military subscription once males reach the age of 18. They spend some months in training and must spend some months every couple of years until (I think) the age of 30-35. They keep their weapons at home!! so every male that trained in the military has a gun at home. This has the advantage that if war *should* break out the Swiss army can be mobilised within an extremely short time. Because they also have regular shooting practice, you can board a bus and there will be 10 guys with rifles!!
The American government spends three trillion dollars just on military equipment every year, how about a trillion less that would covered health insurance in the USA
I’m in Australia. I get five weeks annual leave per year and 17 days sick leave. We have to take our leave. The most leave I can save is 8 weeks. Anything more than that they send me home until my leave balance is under 8 weeks. We are encouraged to take leave. People are far more productive when they are rested and not burnt out.
You have more freedom than communist Russia but socialist societies are not communism as you believe in America. Knowledge is power, but as long as American politicians equate communism with socialism and do not understand the difference, no change will occur.
From Sweden with love.
If you apply for a firearms license in Germany, you must not have a criminal record for violent crimes, for example. You must also justify WHY you need a gun. because of your gun laws so many get shot by the police too. Your cops always assume you're armed. Our police officers in Germany are very relaxed because not every idiot is allowed to carry a gun here.
Fear is the most powerful tool for any politician.
No nation is ever 'free' when every child endures school shooter drills & face possible death when they sit in class each day. And y'all accept that as being fine😳😱💝
facts!
You’re dead right, they don’t care about you in the least 🤷♂️
Keeping everyone distracted with pick a side. These ones versus those ones.
When is it ok for a politicians to become multi X millionaires?
Average Americans getting totally screwed by their politicians and business leaders, while arguing over gender & race & Russia & left & right.
Social housing here in the UK is actually separate from the issue of paying for housing. First, we have housing benefit - this is a social security payment for those who can't afford housing at all, and it covers a reasonable rent; this can be spent on any rented accommodation, whether private- or state-owned.
Then we have the houses (or flats) themselves, often called "council houses". These are quite hard to come by due to dwindling state-owned housing stock, but you essentially go on a waiting list and if your need is the greatest when a house becomes available, you get it. You can then pay rent yourself or, if you don't have the means, it will be covered by housing benefit. Here's the most interesting part: after five years, you can _buy_ that council house from the state at a 35% discount on the market value (this is called the Right to Buy scheme). This discount then increases by 1% every year after that, up to a maximum of £96k discount (or £127.9k in London). There are limitations on what you can do after that, but it varies according to where you live.
For example, we moved into a council house in 2005, and in 2018 we bought it for £94,050 against a market value of £155k (which was quite low...the government decides the price, and it's usually noticeably below the actual value). If we decide to sell within the first five years, we have to pay back 80% of the discount in the first year, 60% in the second, 40% in the third, 20% in the fourth and finally none after year five. If we sell at any point in the 10 years after purchase, we must give the state first refusal on the property at market value (ie no bidding). Our house is currently valued at around £220k, so in five years we've effectively accrued £141k in equity (including the money we've paid off the mortgage) and could sell back to the state instantly and pocket the money. Because we live in the south, where house prices are higher, we _could_ actually do that and buy an equivalent house further up north for cash and be mortgage free for the rest of our lives.
It's an immensely powerful scheme for changing the prospects of those in the lower rungs of the economy.
In what concerns workers' rights, wages and benefits, many jobs in the US are nothing but modern slavery.
When it comes to guns in Switzerland, IIRC they have no standing army, but mandatory military service, and IIRC (I'm not Swiz), the conscripts get to keep their rifle after service to be able to use it to defend the country in case of war.
Hi guys! Belgium 🇧🇪 here, land of Beer, chocolate, and waffles 😅 To give you some examples:
Health insurance: fully covered with a private room in the hospital: 500€ a year - this includes reimbursements of medication (the part not being reimbursed by social security)
University: subscription of 500€ a year + books around 200€
Holidays: legally we have a minimum of 20 days off with a full-time job (mostly 38 hours a week, some sectors 36hrs)
Since short we also have the right to ask to work our regime in 4-days, which is almost impossible to be refused by the employer, and the right to disconnection (employers can no longer contact you outside the contractual working hours)
Guns: we can have some but they are strictly regulated. But we're not paranoid, so not a lot of people have them (for example kids don't get shot in schools, and you don't get shot when you go into your neighbors' field/garden)
Freedom: we have the freedom to walk around without the fear of being shot, being brutally arrested by the cops (some even walk around without guns), free speech described by our UK friend in the video
We for sure live in a social environment - it's not always fair for the working people - but that's how we ensure everybody lives decently.
And of course: come visit our beautiful little country!
When building companies buy land in the UK to build new estates they are contracted to build a portion of that estate for social housing. Post war huge social housing estates were built but that just concentrated the social problems to one area. The new system gives people a chance and access to good schools, parks, facilities that people who own their own homes have.
It is the same in The Netherlands. The municipality can prescribe a percentage, usually 20-40% of housing must be social housing (rent controlled up to €750/month), 20-40% affordable housing (rent between €750 and €1100 and buy up to €350,000), the rest is free for the developer. I don’t know the exact numbers, but the ones mentioned are about that range. All new housing is assigned after registration through a waiting list and point system for rent and buy. Reselling homes is almost everywhere not regulated. But there is a anti-speculation clause in most municipalities for five years after you bought a house. If you resell your house within five years, you’ll have to pay a penalty if you make a profit.
I first visited the U.S,A, as a ten year old way back in the early 70's, I visited my cousins high school and much to my amusement, I was asked if we had television in the U.K. I politely told taht person we invented television! 😅
don't judge where you are in life by what you have and what you buy. Judge it by how much time to have to do the things you want with the people you love. the irony of living in one of the most visually beautiful counties on the planet yet spend all your time working to pay for healthcare that is free in most countries...and then lecture the world about your freedoms. It's total crazy.
Em Portugal temos direito a 22 dias úteis de férias remuneradas.
Recebemos o que chamamos de subsídio de férias, ou seja, quando entramos de férias, recebemos dois salários.
Quando ficamos doentes, vamos ao médico e temos direito a baixa médica onde o estado paga 60% dos dias gozados! Temos também direito a subsídio de natal.
Espero que os norte-americanos possam vir a ter tudo isso também.
Saudações de Portugal
In Denmark we have "Home security" which essentally means that the government steps in an helps you out with rent if you have had some radical change to your life which means you won't be able to stay in your current home.
If you wanna watch a fun cheesy scary movie I would recommend the Norwegian movie Trollhunter, it's basically a tounge in cheek the office-esque mockumentary.
The ending is particularly good!
Housing, I was in Social Housing, I bought the house, I stayed there for 16 years after buying the house, I sold it and live on an estate where it's all private housing, in a posh area of the town, the house is worth nearly £400k now, my wife works and earns £28k, I'm retired, two of my son's live in rented accommodation, one private he's earning £35k, the other social he's earning £60k, and a third son owns a house worth about the same value as ours, he's earning £45k.
Social housing here is not the stigma it is elsewhere in the World, it's a leg up to being productive, getting a good job, raising a family, other families may have rich parents able to give their children a leg up, and they do great, but our society gives people the means to take that leg up, you just have to put the effort into it.
This comment is about Halloween as you mentioned it so Halloween originated over 2000 years ago in Ireland America did not invent it you are such a young country compared to others who have been around for thousand of years but I do agree if you haven't travelled and your not interested in learning about other countries then it is understandable xx however I'm a 65 year old British woman who prides herself she has learnt about other cultures and my life feels richer for it xx
Social housing does not necessarily mean that the rent is being paid for by the government directly. It often means that the house owner got state support in building the house, or in a multi-flat house it can be part of local regulations that a certain share of flats must be social housing. This has two effects: Rent is capped for social housing. The house owner can only ask for this amount of rent, not more. But, in order to be allowed to rent that space, you need to have a certificate that you're eligible, e.g. because you have a low income, you're disabled, etc. In general, you'd still have to pay your rent yourself. You might be eligible to additional support allowing you to pay that rent, but normally it would go via your bank account. One reason is privacy - your landlord doesn't need to know these details about you. The other is dignity. You're an adult. You're trusted to handle things yourself.
the freedom thing always makes me lol i think we have more freedoms in uk that you do in the states to name some,
We can cross a road without being Fined.
We can drive a vehicle without having to carry a licence or insurance papers or ownership papers within the vehicle.
We can drink a beer from the age of 5 without getting a criminal record.
28 days of statutory paid holiday a year
open access land by law so we can walk though country side and farms
women have rights to there own bodies
Why can't you cross a road in the USA?
@@tracymcardle1236 its called jay walking and is illegal you get slapped with a fine anywhere from $25 to $250 depending on the state if you dont cross at the lights and only when the lights say you can walk
Here in Germany, it's in coming to reduce the weekly worktime to 4 days a 10 hours. So you have 4 days intensiv work and than 3 days FREE. The employee work the same hours but is more motivated, more concentrated and is more satisfyed having more time for himself and his family. To the yearly payed holidays of 30 days there are additionally 15 federal and church holidays. (By the way, payed sickdays are 78 weeks limited.)
9:54 You can get a gun in most European countries also. It is just highly regulated. Just as he tells a few minutes later.😂
in fact you can get most of the newest rifles in modern calibers but with magazine size limits and the right permits
There was an era in the 90s when Britain demolished many ghettoised social housing estates after learning that mixed communities create better social ladder and keeps community dynamics great with high aspirations for children. Since then social housing is required as part of new developments and councils procure social housing places in great areas.
I’m really enjoying your channel and your input 👍🏾😁
Thank you!!!