I also live in China and have been here since 2018. I love his videos because he speaks on FACTS and not OPINIONS. And like him I didn’t realize how bad my life was in the USA until I came to China. My quality of life has improved substantially since living here. ❤
In the US, there are obese ppl everywhere. They take it as a norm. In China, if you go to a neighbourhood park, you will see exercise machines lining the trails, free for all to use. And ppl use them !!! No membership is needed !
Yeah, I've been 2 times to the US, First in '89 and then in '99. and it felt worse in '99. Things like healthcare, social security, prevalent selfishness, rampant inequalities, gun fetishim, etc... made me *NOT* wanting to base my life there ever.
Many years back I passed through the US a few times, spending a short time there (I was on my way elsewhere). I honestly didn't see much of the country, but wasn't at all impressed with the broad social culture. The people were pleasant enough, but rather superficial, culturally unsophisticated, and intellectually immature - I guess "strangely child-like" sums it up. These days, I wouldn't go if you paid me - I'd probably get shot if I opened my mouth!
@@InnocuousInes-pe8mk In the video he said: The Americans like to compare with the worst countries. Well done so far. I understand North Korea and South Sudan ... but what´s the problem with the Netherlands?
I could enter a 3,000 word essay here, but I won't. Just one point to put your mind at rest: A large proportion of TH-cam is rubbish and I don't watch it. I only watch videos which enlighten me one way or another and which I therefore consider worth watching. Yours is one of them.
Yesterday I went to my local doctor and asked for a complete analysis, blood and urine, without a specific reason, just to check my general health. This cost me zero euros. Yes, healthcare is paid for with taxes in my country. I am very grateful to have been born in Europe.
europe is not even a country and there is no such shared health care in Europe... im not doubting your pride in your own country, i respect that and i recognize it as a natural, basic emotion but europe?? really? europe is a political identity against asia, africa etc. and 'west', this identity is even worst, based on shared benefits of colonialism. and i bet you didnt even have romania or bulgaria or even poland in your head when you said 'europe'. so not europe, but your own country and 👍🏻 to whichever it is.
In 2005 Media Literacy classes become mandatory thing in Finnish schools, it teaches how to spot trolls, misinfo, propaganda, search multiple sources etc.
Oh really. I find that very sinister. Finland was neutral and at peace with Russia. Now Finland has handed itself over to the tyranny of NATO and the lies of Mi6 and CIA. Russia is your neighbour the USA is a thug pimp that wants you to be their rent-boy bitch and cannon-fodder. I can just imagine how your Media Literacy class spins and distorts people into blind conformity.
This is so important! The media in the USA is controlled by the right wing and mainly the evil Rupert Murdoch who destroyed Great Britain first by pushing brexit and now America thru pushing for Trump second term!
I work 37.5 hours a week, have 5 weeks paid vacation (where I HAVE to take 3 of them in a row...). Right now I still have two weeks vacation left, coz I did not take them all... But I transfer them to next year... coz 10 days is what I'm allowed to transfer. I just took 1 week of a couple of weeks ago when my company made me aware of my 15 vacation days and that they only transfer 10... If I get sick I can stay 8 days workdays (not calender days) sick 3 times in half a year, if I'm still sick after that (and knock on wood, I', almost never sick, last time I had one sick day was over 5 years ago...) I have to go see a doc. I hear people in the US argue that this is misused a lot, but it is not. Not in Norway anyhow... I'm 57 years old and had my first job when I was just past 16 and I have used maybe 15 sick days in all those years.... I been lucky you might say, and why do I still pay my tax for others to benefit from this and free health care when I almost never used it myself? Giving other people a safety net to use, an unemployment salary and maybe an apartment too for my tax money benefits me. How? Coz I don't run in to them under a bridge where they rob me, even kill me. This part is almost never mention when this benefits come up, but this is true. People that have a way to come by in a downhill in their life is not desperate. They do not rob you blind or kill you for your pocket change and Norway is a very safe place, all over Norway, even at night. We have low crime cos of our benefit and safety net system and I like living in a safe society, so do my kids, so I'm happily paying my taxes, even though I almost never used it myself... Believe me, it is worth it! If I loose my job I still have income to get by until I get another job... Even though my company can fire me for three months (and I can't quit for thee moths), so that is rarely a problem... I applied for three jobs in my life and gotten them all... And freedom? I'm so free that I do not think of it very often, that is the very summit of freedom, and not running around bragging about it all the time. No need when you really are free... But then again, I live in a socialist hellhole, you Americans do not want to move over here, believe me, it is horrible! You would not like to live in a country where even the most right leaning politicians are way more to the left then any of the left leaning politicians in the US... So do not come here, cos you are going to die from shock here where no one strips your wage to a bare minimum and even lower, no one shoots school kids at least once a week or have companies that the government is fine by feeding the already filthy rich people that lives on poor peoples backs to make themselves even richer and are just fine by feeding you food that makes you sick and unhealthy enough so they don't want to cover you if you get sick from all of it... This you can keep for yourselves, our socialist hellhole is fine by us... . (The last part is irony for the ones that did not get it...)
Dear Heidi, would you please pin @hanspetterskoug7638 comment? I'm not from Norway, ah ..well Denmark, so I guess close enough? But the fact Hans Petter states is really important, especially for Americans to read, just to get an idea of why we actually likes to pay out taxes, the whole idea of a socially responsible society.
I am a Korean Chinese, I know world sees us differently with no freedom with one party. In reality, I am happy that I dont fight amongst ourselves about who should run the country and I dont want to study who I should vote for. If I life better and happier than yesterday, last year, 10 years ago, it good enough at least I think so. Also we have gay and lesbian people, they are accepted we dont see them weird, they are lowkey and no disturb to society, everyone can be themselves. But of course dont take my words everyone sees things different, if have time and money visit other places and expand on vision. Sorry about my poor English but most importantly, stay blessed amazing American friends!
I can easily understand, that lots of Chinese felt this way in the last 30 years. Their economic situation and living standards were on the rise. This is currently changing. The upcoming time will be a lot harder. There are a lot of problems China will have to work through in the next 30 years. The restricted flow of information and not to be able to criticize the government (especially the top) will make it harder to effectively address the problems. Just on a personal note: I wouldn't want to live in a country, where you can't talk about tings like the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. And a second personal note: I'm German and have lived with Chinese (who studied in Germany). They were nice people.
@@germanikusxxxraphaelmoreau2369 actually, U really don't know China. Simply say Voting ticket has nothing to do with democracy and freedom. Speaking to 1989, Chinese people never want to be in situation of India.
The narrative #There are a lot of problems China will have to work through in the next 30 years# is quite insipid, which country can escape this saying? China knows its problem and is trying to fix, the economy is turning the corner. But eruope is at the loss to what to do.
I’ve been to America 3 times and the stand out plus is the people. I found them amazingly friendly and generous. The prime negative is how they are completely duped by the wealthy people in control. By that I mean politicians and the multinational company oligarchs. They won their freedom from us Brits about time they won their freedom from the people in control of their lives. The US people deserve better!
Do they though? I mean, there's clear exceptions to what I'm about to say, but... do they really deserve better at this point? I felt bad for them in the past, but every time there's a school shooting and it's not a politician but the parents of other children that defend their gun laws, I care less and less and less. I'm past the point of giving a damn about them, even before over half of them decided to elect a sub-human as persident who's openly racist, sexist, bigotted and falling prey to dementia. He claimed that Tahitians eat pets for weeks. Even after the citizens, police and state police clarified that none of it was true, he kept going. He's STILL mentioning it from time to time. And People cheered for it. He told people, as their president, to DRINK BLEACH as a cure for covid! And he got Re Elected!
The US is the greatest democracy on this planet. If they want change they can use their vote! Who are we non Americans to say otherwise? I wish I can vote for my president, it'd be so much better. 😢
@@rusticbox9908 What makes the democracy of america "better" than that of, say, France, Canada, Britain, Austraila, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Finnland and so on? And the reason non-americans chime in so much, is that their vote can have significant ramafications worldwide. I agree with you that any democracy is better than the alternatives, but claiming that the USA of all places has "the greatest" democracy of all, is absurd.
@@rusticbox9908 So if i reckon that I'm the best cook on the face of the earth, I just am? Nevermind the food poisoning I'm giving everyone, I'm the best because I claim to be?
The US is not a Country, it is a Business. There are much more People incarcerated, maybe not physcial but in there believes. You can´t blame them, because that is how they got raised by their parents, school, sports, church and many more. It´s hard to get out of that system and learn more about the sea, when you trapped in a fish tank.
And New Zealand has 26 weeks of paid maternity leave, and your job will be held for you up to 12 months... So that just leaves the USA on its own with NOTHING...
@@benttranberg2690 True. But I think these comments are in regard to the " 3 Countries with zero paid parental leave - USA, Australia, New Zealand". Both Australia and New Zealand DO have it. It's a correction to the dudes misinformation.
I worked for a US corporation and decided one day that this grind is pointless. This can’t be how life is expected to be. Work sucks, dating sucks, my health sucks, healthcare sucks, etc. So, I made a plan, sold everything, and started my journey. 2 years later, I met an amazing woman and we will get married soon, something I never wanted in the US, my mental and physical health have improved dramatically. I feel more at ease and definitely more safe in the new country. Actually, regardless of Visa requirements that I have to maintain, I feel more free than I ever did in the US. “Life” feels like living and not just existing or surviving, and this has been accomplished with 1/5 of what I was earning in the US. US news has become entertainment, like a ridiculous reality show that makes me laugh and cringe most times.
4:25 It's so sad, that people might assume, that if all guns are taken away, it's gonna be chaos. Something must be deeply wrong with the society. Basically it's inequality.
Hey Heidi. By the way congratulations on/with your child. And about the vid. You and he are totally right. Seen from a broad we shake our heads and pity Americans in general ... I hope one day to experience betterment in the States but keeping my breath would likely kill me in the process and not change much... However more people like you would give the USA a chance of becoming an adult like most of the rest of the world... Greetings from Denmark
24:30 I’ve watched this video before but it’s fun to watch with you. I haven’t own a car since leaving the USA. The ease of getting around in China is mind blowing. I never worry about how I am going to get from here to there.
As a Canadian, watching from Canada, I remember the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles. Almost the entire TV airing of the event, which was granted exclusively to NBC, showed only American athletes. It was obvious as Canadian how odd this was, but to Americans it must have seemed normal. I don't think this has changed much to today. Americans know little about Canada or outside their borders.
Note that the US only ranked 15 (now 17) whe self-assessing freedom in the comparisons where the metrics are defined by Americans themselves. In aggregate indexes that combine the metrics used by different countries the US ranks in the high sixties.
I'm from a country which labelled as "developing country". Here maternity leave is 90 days, 45 days full income paid and another 45 days 50% plus 15 days for the father, fully paid too.
I saw another video the other day talking about freedom in USA and Europe. It said that freedom in USA is defined as "freedom to..." like freedom to carry guns while in Europe freedom in Europe is defined as "freedom from..." like freedom from school shootings, freedom from having someones religion being forced upon you and so on
@wncjan. Partly maybe. But I - as a European - like the "fredom to": walk the country without trespassing problems, send my kids to school without extra fee, getting sick wihout job problems or finacial problems. I see it differently. In the US it´s more the freedom for a person to do something. Like to carry a gun, to fire and hire, to put chemicals in the food, to avoid to pay for insurance, to use the "freedom of speech" to offend somebody .... In Europe it´s more a society oriented way (not a individual way): to be protected against being shot, to be free to enjoy nature, the freedom to educate kids even if the parents have low income, to be protected against being fired for no reason, to feel safe to eat food - even low cost without the fear of being poisoned.... I don´t need the "freedom to assault somebody". I would not do this with my partner, my employer, police officer ... nor anybody else.
I am 45 years old. The sad thing is we knew this when I was a kid. People are to focused on fights that don't matter..this is a very old game. And nothing will change sadly
We, also have full examination in my company that I work for. Every emplyee over 40 y old must go to full medical examination, every 2 (two) years. Employee under 40 years old are going every 3 (three) years. All these med examination is paid by our employer. I live in Croatia.
Oh, a recently a report came out, that internet research, how to immigrate another country went up to 7000% (!!!!!!!!) increase, for Germany. New zealand even higher. ( All from the US after the election results)
@@Salzbuckel Australian here. I live in a small(ish) country town in rural Queensland. Even out here we often hear American accents, not just tourists or backpackers on a working holiday but people who have made the permanent move. At last count there were something like 600k Americans in Australia who have done the same. I'm now in my 60's & experiencing many of the health issues that go with that. This includes several flights with the Flying Doctor to Brisbane (the Capital of Qld) for specialist treatment, multiple Ambulance trips to hospital & medical care. Total cost $0. Gun ownership is still possible but strictly controlled & regulated, thank God. One of the few things I admire our then PM for having the balls to introduce. I've been really lucky to have lived, worked & travelled all over the world excluding the Americas. Hardly a day goes by when I am not thankful for winning the elusive lottery of being born in this wonderful country. Even with our issues (its far from perfect) it's still a pretty good place to live. I'm guessing most Europeans would say the same about their own respective countries. Particularly seeing the shitshow that has devolved in the (dis) United States recently. Best wishes from 🇦🇨
11:08 we are planning for our first. The city gave us $1K worth of fertility tests (paid only for added stuff we wanted to know. The city will give us $5k upon birth the country will give us $20k over 3 years. And yes, that’s USD amount which goes a very long way here in China. Education for my child will be free until middle school. We pay no income tax on our home. Food/groceries are affordable and delivered to our doorstep every morning.
Hail Heidi! You told me that you and your partner had a small child, you told me that this cost thousands of dollars even with insurance. Now I will tell you how it would have been for you if you had lived in my country Sweden. Going to maternity care and seeing the midwife during pregnancy is free. Being in the hospital and giving birth to the baby is free. Afterwards, visiting the children's reception to follow up when the child grows and how it develops is free. Dental care for children up to the age of 23 is free. You have parental leave up to 480 days, 390 days parental allowance is based on your you have. The father only has father off for 10 days, when the mother and the child come home from the hospital. The father is then entitled to 90 days' leave (12 weeks). Having a child in daycare is the highest cost for a child under the age of 3, $168 a month. Children over 3 years old it costs 112 dollars per month. This includes real food that is prepared at the daycare. Then from year 1 up to and including high school, the elves get real food at school and this is free. The fact that the child needs to see the school sister does not cost anything either. Then going to school is free and in Sweden all children are safe at school, you don't need to worry about school shootings. Then now when you hear how bad the school and its education is plus how expensive it is. So your children are safer in Sweden. There are actually Americans who have chosen to leave the US to move to Finland; Denmark or Sweden. Partly that it is a safe school environment and the bar gets a better education here, I have heard from these Americans who have moved to one of these countries. Then for you and your partner, in Sweden you have 5 weeks of paid holiday and in some professions you get an additional 1 week of holiday from the year you turn 50. Here in Sweden, everyone has a 40 hour work week. Then there are professions where you work for 7 days and then have 7 days off.
19:20 I think I saw statistics that 90% of the graduated students in the USA do not work in their learned profession. Almost everyone has a bachelor or masters degree, but not using them. It's part of the education to teach children to select a career that they can follow until they retire. Here in Germany it is kind of normal to start your career after school/university in a company and stay there until you retire. You earn more money over time and get a better position if you work for it, while in the USA to get a better income or position inmost times you have to change the company. I know people that started as sales people for a company and now head a branch.
I can't talk for New Zealand but in Oz, we have some of the best mandated working conditions in the first world. This includes generous paid maternity and paternity leave.
@tomeng9041 Australia is not too far behind the Nordic countries in a lot of areas, but affordable or public housing is way behind Europe in general and its really have a negative effect especially with cost of living issues.
Regarding benefits in Australia its absolutely mandatory to provide workers from part time kids at McDonalds trough to the highest paying jobs with Superannuation which is a scheme where your employer has to pay into a government regulated retirement scheme of you choice that's not linked to your employer Approx 13% on top of your pay ,the employee can then also pay into this fund if they wish from their salary which has has tax benifits .There were a lot of high fee under performing funds until recently when reforms made a significant difference. Joe average Australians own significant chunks of share holdings in Major Corporations in Australia and World Wide so in some way they do benefit from corporate greed you could argue.. You can also choose the investment mix , environmentally friendly funds or manage your own fund. The result of this is Australians per capita are amongst the wealthiest in the world ( except you cant touch it til retirement age in most instances so cost of living issues certainly dont feel that way ATM) .Employers don't typically provide health cover so it's not a consideration in choosing or staying with an employer. Medicare is available to all and its means tested so depending on how much you earn you have to pay a tax levy or get private health cover which is far cheaper than the USA and covers if you choose dental and optical that Medicare doesn't . We do pay higher taxes than the USA but we get better value for money through decent infrastructure, healthcare ,public safety etc . One thing the USA would never bring in but I think would help greatly is mandatory voting which we have In Australia along with a positive voting culture and good protection of voting rights and access. This has a great effect on moderating the political climate and ensuring that radical politicians are usually limited to a very small number seat's in Parliament. By not electing a President but having a Prime Minister there is a lot more accountability as the party can oust a PM at any time if they are a threat to the parties and they are almost always an experienced politician . I have spent 3 months in the USA in the past 15 years, visited 26 other countries and also lived in New Zealand and Australia and currently Japan for the past year .
May I compliment you? I see a change since you started your channel. You were a true American with limited knowledge of what happens outside the USA. Now I see a world citizen with completely different insights into how things are in the rest of the world. I come from the Netherlands myself, and certainly not everything is perfect here either. However, when I look at America, I fear that things are going completely wrong there. The rich and industrialists will become super rich and will continue to do so at the expense of their own population. The vast majority of people in Europe are also surprised about the choice they have made politically. Is this out of naivety, ignorance? No knowledge of the world outside the USA? Keep it up and try to reach as many compatriots as possible. In the USA it is "still possible" to express one's opinion freely. In Russia you will not survive.
20:24 in Canada, contract work have grown so much to the point it's next to impossible to find a permanent position...It wasn't like this as much before the pandemic
20:18 For perspective, as a Canadian professional father, I get 18 months paid paternity leave at ~33% of my salary from the government and my workplace "tops up" my salary to "keep me whole" because I have benefits that match "industry best practice" to remain competitive for labour. Heidi is so right that early connection is so important and figuring out being a parent is hard enough without adding wage labour outside the home.
Australia DOES have maternity leave provisions. They are mostly part of industrial agreements between employer bodies and labour bodies/unions however there are no minimum mandated provisions except for full time employees
I used to live in Portugal and they have the same work identity issue so when I burned out and had to go back to Switzerland having lost everything, including my job and dropping out of university in the process, I felt like I was a worthless empty husk. Nowadays I'm working to change my mindset but every time someone asks me what I do for a living and I say I'm disabled, a part of me dies.
One point that kinda blends the guns and education is, a large portion of what the US spends on education has to go to security measures like metal detectors and guards because school shootings are such a common occurance, most other countries don't have to waste money on this stuff and can instead put that money towards improving the actual education! And in Healthcare a huge portion of what the governement spends on healthcare goes to administration because of how insanely complicated your insurance system is...
Except the first part is blatantly false. Inflation adjusted, school *administration* cost has more than tripled over the last 30 years, while security cost has basically stayed flat.
Please note: He showed an article dated 1998 that said Australia didn’t pay Paid Maternity Leave. We have a Paid Parental Leave scheme which was introduced on 1 January 2011. The scheme provides Parental Leave Pay at a rate based on the national minimum wage to support eligible working parents to take time off work to care for their child after a birth or adoption.
22:13 "Strong" unions can also cause issues if unchecked, i.e. are demands reasonable, can they work with organisations management for the benefit of the employees, etc. Thus, good Government governance to manage both parties (union and employer) is critical.
Australia has had 12 weeks paid maternity leave since 2011. It's 12 weeks. . You can also take 12 months off without pay and your job is guaranteed to be there when you return. This applies to adopting a baby as well. In 2024 paid parental leave of 22 weeks was introduced. So if you are the parent of a baby you can now get this leave, not just the mum.
The USA has the world's highest incarceration rate, but here's the kicker: the US prison system is BIG on forced labor. Prisoners work for practically nothing. *And they have no choice.* So I find it tragically ironic that the USA accuses China of forced labor (which is false).
Nothing against eating some (unhealthy) convenience food from time to time. If the rest of food is a good mix of everything (normally healthy). Politics should be like a partnership: Sometimes you disagree - maybe do a little fight, but always with keeping in mind to want to live together in the future. Different opinions are normal - we are human. But during this "hard" time ... also try to think about the "good" time, then it´s easier to find a good compromise for both.
In Europe they are looking for teachers, language course in the country where you want to live plus a course in pedagogy and last go. Requirements differ,
Australia has paid maternity leave if they earn less than $175K/year or combined income of less than $365K/yr. 6 months guaranteed by the Government at ~ $1832/fortnight (federal minimum wage) + whatever their own employer offers, typically something like full pay for 3 months or half pay for 6 months.
Hey Heidi! I’m not sure if I have asked you this before but I’m kind of curious, if you haven’t already, are you planning to move to Europe? If yes, what country would you like to move to?
As someone who has lived abroad for over 12 years now, I pretty much agree with everything that he is saying. He was wrong about Australia not having paid parental leave. You can get up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave in Australia. My two kids were born in a public hospital and that cost norhing. Now that I have kids and a good, high quality life abroad, I don't see myself ever going back to the US. It might be broken beyond repair and the public is at war with itself.
Love your reactions. You and Hubby are welcome here in Denmark. If you want to see other americans experienses about moving to Denmark, I can recommend "Travelin' Young". They talk about both the good AND bad in our small country.
At the time of his video, he stated the World Freedom Index placed the USA at 15th in rankings, it was 17th in 2023, and I recently read it is now at 23rd for 2024, but can't find that source any longer. The reality is it's delving into fascism at an alarming rate.
On that maternity leave thing. (Hi from Finland). Even as single white male I do love it that my employer is kinda more generous than law requires when it comes to maternity leaves and I think women are like 80% of our work force. Full support to the women and for this reason they feel safe to have children because their income is secured and their job is secured. They even come visit us at the office while on their maternity leave with their kids. It is great. On top of that there is also the paternity leave which can be like 6 months or something, paid as well. Anyway, can't wait for one great new mother from our work coming back from her maternity leave next april or something. 😂 In the end it is cheaper for the employer as they don't have to train new employee and it shows loyalty from both sides. 😊
The reason only 3 countries have a constitutional right to own firearms is simply because the intelligent part of the world know perfectly well what happens when you overflow a country with firearms. The result is always extra work to morticians.
In Singapore, we are not allowed to own guns. If you are caught possessing one, you will be prisoned for a long time. If you use the arm, then it is death sentence. No guns = no gun violence. In Singapore, we have zero gun violence.
The issue with guns in America isn't just the amount of guns or the accessibility, as stated by other people in these comments, in Switzerland almost everyone has a gun too. The issue is that in America, having a gun "for safety" is seen as a valid argument, while in reality, last person you should give a gun is someone who think they're in danger. The issue is not "bad guys" with guns. It's scared and paranoid people with guns.
@Frahamen: What´s really shocking for me as an European is that the US police shoot about 1000 people annually (40% illegally). We in Europe consider the police as "the good ones". And here we have about 1000 people shot in total (not police only). And if a police officer here kills a person illegally .. he is called a murder .. and held responsible for this. Here I trust the police.
I live in Malaysia, not even developed nation. US spends 10 X per capita on HealthCare (purchasing power parity) and has a healthcare system ranked below us. You can walk in, see the doctor within 90 minutes and walk out with 3 months of prescription medicine for US 0.25. In the US, it takes nearly 1 month to get an appointment in US Your government taxes more, as it spends more to pay for more debts to support sputtering Economy Just go to IMF or the World Bank. All the data is there. Go through it and you would realize that US is already behind many developing countries
German. If my employer wants to give me something extra, they can pay me a higher salary, offer me a company pension or a Christmas bonus, additional vacation pay, pay for my office coffee whatever. That's nice of him. Those are benefits. - At least as I understand the term. The very fact that you guys call it a “benefit” over there is confusing for me. It sounds to me like it's something generous, from a particularly nice employer (something like a reward or a gift). Only one of the 10 or so possible translations of benefit to german comes close to what it actually is: “Leistungen”. But in my country that's not quite right either, because these are statutory(!) benefits. It's simply the law, I'm entitled to it and if the employer withholds it, he's in big trouble. And not just from me, but also from the Police, courts and social security authorities. It will be expensive for him. Very, very expensive.
Walmart is not allowed to operate in Australia because they refuse to pay their staff the minimum $25 Au an hour salary, which is a legal requirement for how all employers operate.
@@ChristopherJewels Nice. But I think it's almost even nicer how Walmart has fared here in Germany. They came, invested and made big statements (a cultural thing in the USA. We know that and make jokes about it). Then they left about 2 years later like a drowned rat with more than a billion dollars loss. In the meanwhile they had to realize the hard way that neither employees, unions, customers, trade supervisory authorities, antitrust authorities, courts nor competitors are to be trifled with here. (Search here for “walmart fail germany”). At least a few lawyers, planning and construction companies, plaintiffs and the German state got a few euros out of it. At least this money stayed in the country and was properly taxed. P.S. And even funnier is that the German brand Aldi is currently the fastest growing grocery store chain in the USA. (Perhaps they have learned from Walmart's mistakes? Revenge is a sausage. 😂😂)
I've always found it strange how the USA seems perpetually in elections. Two years for the main followed by two year "mid-term". This may have been needed in the distant past but today with mass media it's not. Also most countries aren't focussed on a parties money raised as a barometer of success.
(Outsider perspective.) Interesting observation, and I've wondered whether the never-ending political events & speeches & fundraising efforts have become so ingrained in American culture that it's just permanent. Here in South Africa most of us are vaguely aware that we have national elections every 5 years, and election campaigning doesn't gain much momentum until about 5 or 6 weeks before election day. And even then, political gatherings are few and far between. It's not because of apathy - most South Africans are politically invested and have some pretty hard views about it - but because real-life challenges are taking daily priority. Yes, most of those challenges are economical and the average voter just doesn't have the energy to go rah-rah-rah at political gatherings so often. The elections are still taken seriously but without a big circus happening every other year.
He basically outlined all domestic problems in US, the Americans should take this up with your leaders and this should be the common themes for Americans in every elections lol😂
I would be bankrupt if I lived in the US. I’ve had two children, C-sections (one emergency and one planned), one breast reduction, two back surgeries (spinal), an abortion and a bunch of other stuff connected to it like MR’s and numerous doctor’s appointments for minor things every year. I take medicines daily for ADHD and insomnia. In Sweden we pay some fees and prices for appointments and medicine but they’re capped at a certain level and once you reach that you don’t pay anything more that year. Most of it is covered by taxes. I also studied at a nice university for 3,5 years to become a teacher. For free.
In the UK and Continental Europe healthcare is a right and firearms ownership is heavily regulated and rare. In the USA healthcare is not a right, it is an expensive item that costs much more in real terms than anywhere else and firearms ownership is a right under a 233 year old law that was passed when Muskets were the best ones available. As a Brit I do not have to worry about any direct cost to me if I get ill or am in an accident. Also, the average American is 129 times more likely to die in a gun related incident than I am. I know where I prefer living. And it is NOT on the western side of the North Atlantic. P.S. Many congratulations on becoming a Mum. ♥🙂
I live in Australia and for the most part I've been a union member, why because the union stood between me and the company. Even the most well meaning company owner will put his well-being a head of there workers, management can never be trusted to look after the unterests of there workers. That's what the unions for to protect the workers.
There are a lot of people in Finland who think that becoming a freelancer or an entrepreneur is not worth the risk compared to being an employee. Small entrepreneurs complain that they don't have the same protections that average employees have and you know what? They're right. It's actually the leftwing parties' job to lobby for these people because social democrats and labor unions represent employees and rightwing parties large corporations and shareholders.
Historically, when have pale people not changed a rule, law, treaty, identity, religion, names of locations, history, science, food, reality etc, in order to benefit their survival on the backs of others and their land???
Sweden has in total 480 days of paid parental leve, 390 of them based on your income (with a cap).Sadly I'm not a parent but parental leave is a good thing.
Yyyeah.. Might the average American have missed it : The Robber Barons have finally wón. It took a bit more than a century, but here we are. And voters are àctually willingly supporting those Robber Barons…. They àctually voted one in the ultimate seat of power in the US. Peeps looking in from the outside be like ‘Dis Gunna’ be Gud!” And fetch their local snacks. The bit about the military: There’s enough dough sloshing around in the coffers of corporations and politicians to be able to have bóth a mighty military ánd a humane and socially advanced society with ample catch-nets for those that fall through the cracks.
Most TH-camrs who are actually interesting are people educated in a trade or well respected in a hobby. Very few people have the power of personality to be the talentless youtuber.
Interesting videoes as I'm Norwegian it's very interestibg when you compare Europe, especially Norway with the U.S. I think Tyler Walker (an Americaner) hace some videoes I think you will find inyeresting. At last I must tell that my great grandmother emigrated from Norway to Fairview, Utah, USA in 1861( 26 years old) as she was mormon. And her father didn't like the mormon belief, so they didn't speak with eachother for many, many years. You might have heard about one of my relatives as he was a senator for Utah quite a long time.
11:06 the difference between China and the USA is that companies run the government in the USA while in China the government her runs the companies
USA (UK) = DEVIL
I also live in China and have been here since 2018. I love his videos because he speaks on FACTS and not OPINIONS. And like him I didn’t realize how bad my life was in the USA until I came to China. My quality of life has improved substantially since living here. ❤
Even in China, which is a communist country, life is far better than in the USA. How bad is it there, life must be a horror in the USA
i am happy for you that you have found a place that suits you well! All the best wishes to you
In the US, there are obese ppl everywhere. They take it as a norm.
In China, if you go to a neighbourhood park, you will see exercise machines lining the trails, free for all to use. And ppl use them !!! No membership is needed !
The US is the last country on earth i would want to live in. One word: Brainwashed.
counter point. north korea, south sudan or the netherlands
Yeah, I've been 2 times to the US, First in '89 and then in '99. and it felt worse in '99.
Things like healthcare, social security, prevalent selfishness, rampant inequalities, gun fetishim, etc...
made me *NOT* wanting to base my life there ever.
Many years back I passed through the US a few times, spending a short time there (I was on my way elsewhere). I honestly didn't see much of the country, but wasn't at all impressed with the broad social culture. The people were pleasant enough, but rather superficial, culturally unsophisticated, and intellectually immature - I guess "strangely child-like" sums it up. These days, I wouldn't go if you paid me - I'd probably get shot if I opened my mouth!
@@InnocuousInes-pe8mk In the video he said: The Americans like to compare with the worst countries. Well done so far.
I understand North Korea and South Sudan ... but what´s the problem with the Netherlands?
@@klaus2t703 I suspect it's an attempt at a joke.. Maybe.
I could enter a 3,000 word essay here, but I won't. Just one point to put your mind at rest:
A large proportion of TH-cam is rubbish and I don't watch it. I only watch videos which enlighten me one way or another and which I therefore consider worth watching. Yours is one of them.
Yesterday I went to my local doctor and asked for a complete analysis, blood and urine, without a specific reason, just to check my general health. This cost me zero euros. Yes, healthcare is paid for with taxes in my country. I am very grateful to have been born in Europe.
europe is not even a country and there is no such shared health care in Europe...
im not doubting your pride in your own country, i respect that and i recognize it as a natural, basic emotion but europe?? really? europe is a political identity against asia, africa etc. and 'west', this identity is even worst, based on shared benefits of colonialism. and i bet you didnt even have romania or bulgaria or even poland in your head when you said 'europe'.
so not europe, but your own country and 👍🏻 to whichever it is.
@radiosparrow851 European public healthcare systems are way better than the American one, no matter the country
@@xalau5270 i think you get what i mean... thats the destination i aimed at... thats all
@radiosparrow851 I think you don't get what I mean
In 2005 Media Literacy classes become mandatory thing in Finnish schools, it teaches how to spot trolls, misinfo, propaganda, search multiple sources etc.
"Media Literacy"??? American journalists are the dishonest propagandists and trolls these days.
Oh really. I find that very sinister. Finland was neutral and at peace with Russia. Now Finland has handed itself over to the tyranny of NATO and the lies of Mi6 and CIA. Russia is your neighbour the USA is a thug pimp that wants you to be their rent-boy bitch and cannon-fodder. I can just imagine how your Media Literacy class spins and distorts people into blind conformity.
And as we saw in 2022, it didn't work.
This is so important! The media in the USA is controlled by the right wing and mainly the evil Rupert Murdoch who destroyed Great Britain first by pushing brexit and now America thru pushing for Trump second term!
I work 37.5 hours a week, have 5 weeks paid vacation (where I HAVE to take 3 of them in a row...). Right now I still have two weeks vacation left, coz I did not take them all... But I transfer them to next year... coz 10 days is what I'm allowed to transfer. I just took 1 week of a couple of weeks ago when my company made me aware of my 15 vacation days and that they only transfer 10...
If I get sick I can stay 8 days workdays (not calender days) sick 3 times in half a year, if I'm still sick after that (and knock on wood, I', almost never sick, last time I had one sick day was over 5 years ago...) I have to go see a doc. I hear people in the US argue that this is misused a lot, but it is not. Not in Norway anyhow... I'm 57 years old and had my first job when I was just past 16 and I have used maybe 15 sick days in all those years.... I been lucky you might say, and why do I still pay my tax for others to benefit from this and free health care when I almost never used it myself?
Giving other people a safety net to use, an unemployment salary and maybe an apartment too for my tax money benefits me. How? Coz I don't run in to them under a bridge where they rob me, even kill me. This part is almost never mention when this benefits come up, but this is true. People that have a way to come by in a downhill in their life is not desperate. They do not rob you blind or kill you for your pocket change and Norway is a very safe place, all over Norway, even at night. We have low crime cos of our benefit and safety net system and I like living in a safe society, so do my kids, so I'm happily paying my taxes, even though I almost never used it myself... Believe me, it is worth it! If I loose my job I still have income to get by until I get another job... Even though my company can fire me for three months (and I can't quit for thee moths), so that is rarely a problem... I applied for three jobs in my life and gotten them all...
And freedom? I'm so free that I do not think of it very often, that is the very summit of freedom, and not running around bragging about it all the time. No need when you really are free...
But then again, I live in a socialist hellhole, you Americans do not want to move over here, believe me, it is horrible! You would not like to live in a country where even the most right leaning politicians are way more to the left then any of the left leaning politicians in the US... So do not come here, cos you are going to die from shock here where no one strips your wage to a bare minimum and even lower, no one shoots school kids at least once a week or have companies that the government is fine by feeding the already filthy rich people that lives on poor peoples backs to make themselves even richer and are just fine by feeding you food that makes you sick and unhealthy enough so they don't want to cover you if you get sick from all of it... This you can keep for yourselves, our socialist hellhole is fine by us... . (The last part is irony for the ones that did not get it...)
Dear Heidi, would you please pin @hanspetterskoug7638 comment? I'm not from Norway, ah ..well Denmark, so I guess close enough? But the fact Hans Petter states is really important, especially for Americans to read, just to get an idea of why we actually likes to pay out taxes, the whole idea of a socially responsible society.
I am a Korean Chinese, I know world sees us differently with no freedom with one party. In reality, I am happy that I dont fight amongst ourselves about who should run the country and I dont want to study who I should vote for. If I life better and happier than yesterday, last year, 10 years ago, it good enough at least I think so. Also we have gay and lesbian people, they are accepted we dont see them weird, they are lowkey and no disturb to society, everyone can be themselves. But of course dont take my words everyone sees things different, if have time and money visit other places and expand on vision. Sorry about my poor English but most importantly, stay blessed amazing American friends!
I understand you perfectly well, no worries about it , usa..usa..usa…😜
@@winyup7271 trying parking in downtown Baltimore
I can easily understand, that lots of Chinese felt this way in the last 30 years. Their economic situation and living standards were on the rise. This is currently changing. The upcoming time will be a lot harder. There are a lot of problems China will have to work through in the next 30 years. The restricted flow of information and not to be able to criticize the government (especially the top) will make it harder to effectively address the problems.
Just on a personal note: I wouldn't want to live in a country, where you can't talk about tings like the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
And a second personal note: I'm German and have lived with Chinese (who studied in Germany). They were nice people.
@@germanikusxxxraphaelmoreau2369 actually, U really don't know China. Simply say Voting ticket has nothing to do with democracy and freedom. Speaking to 1989, Chinese people never want to be in situation of India.
The narrative #There are a lot of problems China will have to work through in the next 30 years# is quite insipid, which country can escape this saying? China knows its problem and is trying to fix, the economy is turning the corner. But eruope is at the loss to what to do.
Trip bittern has great videos, I enjoy how he explains things
I’ve been to America 3 times and the stand out plus is the people. I found them amazingly friendly and generous.
The prime negative is how they are completely duped by the wealthy people in control. By that I mean politicians and the multinational company oligarchs. They won their freedom from us Brits about time they won their freedom from the people in control of their lives. The US people deserve better!
Do they though? I mean, there's clear exceptions to what I'm about to say, but... do they really deserve better at this point?
I felt bad for them in the past, but every time there's a school shooting and it's not a politician but the parents of other children that defend their gun laws, I care less and less and less. I'm past the point of giving a damn about them, even before over half of them decided to elect a sub-human as persident who's openly racist, sexist, bigotted and falling prey to dementia. He claimed that Tahitians eat pets for weeks. Even after the citizens, police and state police clarified that none of it was true, he kept going. He's STILL mentioning it from time to time. And People cheered for it.
He told people, as their president, to DRINK BLEACH as a cure for covid! And he got Re Elected!
The US is the greatest democracy on this planet. If they want change they can use their vote!
Who are we non Americans to say otherwise?
I wish I can vote for my president, it'd be so much better. 😢
@@rusticbox9908 What makes the democracy of america "better" than that of, say, France, Canada, Britain, Austraila, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Finnland and so on?
And the reason non-americans chime in so much, is that their vote can have significant ramafications worldwide. I agree with you that any democracy is better than the alternatives, but claiming that the USA of all places has "the greatest" democracy of all, is absurd.
@timokampwerth1996 They reckon they do. That's all that matters.
@@rusticbox9908 So if i reckon that I'm the best cook on the face of the earth, I just am? Nevermind the food poisoning I'm giving everyone, I'm the best because I claim to be?
Education & health care should be priority.
"It's just cruel, honestly". You just described the US. It's going to get even worse.
The US is not a Country, it is a Business.
There are much more People incarcerated, maybe not physcial but in there believes. You can´t blame them, because that is how they got raised by their parents, school, sports, church and many more. It´s hard to get out of that system and learn more about the sea, when you trapped in a fish tank.
Just an update, Australia now has 22 weeks of paid maternity leave.
And New Zealand has 26 weeks of paid maternity leave, and your job will be held for you up to 12 months... So that just leaves the USA on its own with NOTHING...
In Norway each parent gets two years paid leave for each birth.
@@benttranberg2690 True. But I think these comments are in regard to the " 3 Countries with zero paid parental leave - USA, Australia, New Zealand".
Both Australia and New Zealand DO have it.
It's a correction to the dudes misinformation.
Germany 45 weeks👶
Canada has 1 year paid mat leave
I worked for a US corporation and decided one day that this grind is pointless. This can’t be how life is expected to be. Work sucks, dating sucks, my health sucks, healthcare sucks, etc. So, I made a plan, sold everything, and started my journey. 2 years later, I met an amazing woman and we will get married soon, something I never wanted in the US, my mental and physical health have improved dramatically. I feel more at ease and definitely more safe in the new country. Actually, regardless of Visa requirements that I have to maintain, I feel more free than I ever did in the US. “Life” feels like living and not just existing or surviving, and this has been accomplished with 1/5 of what I was earning in the US. US news has become entertainment, like a ridiculous reality show that makes me laugh and cringe most times.
@Ronald_Jon - where did you move to? I plan to leave California in 2 years for retirement in Thailand.
Paid maternity leave has been around in Australia since 1973 and was strengthened in 2011 . Even before that there was an "allowence" paid since 1912.
And I would be surprised if New Zealand doesn't have paid maternity leave
@@mrm7058yup, we have it as well. Don't know where that man got his info from. It was mandated by law in 1987
Thank you! I was one of those that thought America was so great! You really opened my eyes!
4:25 It's so sad, that people might assume, that if all guns are taken away, it's gonna be chaos. Something must be deeply wrong with the society. Basically it's inequality.
@@bognagruba7653 你说的太对了，只有一个有病的社会，才会觉得没有武器保护就会陷入混乱。
在一个公平合理的社会里，相互之间即使不需要用武力，也会和平相处的很好，因为相互之间没有矛盾和冲突。
也许美国就是所谓的文明洼地吧。
Hey Heidi.
By the way congratulations on/with your child.
And about the vid. You and he are totally right. Seen from a broad we shake our heads and pity Americans in general ... I hope one day to experience betterment in the States but keeping my breath would likely kill me in the process and not change much... However more people like you would give the USA a chance of becoming an adult like most of the rest of the world...
Greetings from Denmark
24:30 I’ve watched this video before but it’s fun to watch with you. I haven’t own a car since leaving the USA. The ease of getting around in China is mind blowing. I never worry about how I am going to get from here to there.
Agree, and its so cheap compared to the rest of the world .
Truth is brutal and ugly.
Those kind of videos should be mandatory during school years. "This is the current state... make it better..."
As a Canadian, watching from Canada, I remember the 1984 Olympics held in Los Angeles. Almost the entire TV airing of the event, which was granted exclusively to NBC, showed only American athletes. It was obvious as Canadian how odd this was, but to Americans it must have seemed normal. I don't think this has changed much to today. Americans know little about Canada or outside their borders.
Note that the US only ranked 15 (now 17) whe self-assessing freedom in the comparisons where the metrics are defined by Americans themselves.
In aggregate indexes that combine the metrics used by different countries the US ranks in the high sixties.
I'm from a country which labelled as "developing country". Here maternity leave is 90 days, 45 days full income paid and another 45 days 50% plus 15 days for the father, fully paid too.
I saw another video the other day talking about freedom in USA and Europe. It said that freedom in USA is defined as "freedom to..." like freedom to carry guns while in Europe freedom in Europe is defined as "freedom from..." like freedom from school shootings, freedom from having someones religion being forced upon you and so on
@wncjan. Partly maybe. But I - as a European - like the "fredom to": walk the country without trespassing problems, send my kids to school without extra fee, getting sick wihout job problems or finacial problems.
I see it differently. In the US it´s more the freedom for a person to do something. Like to carry a gun, to fire and hire, to put chemicals in the food, to avoid to pay for insurance, to use the "freedom of speech" to offend somebody ....
In Europe it´s more a society oriented way (not a individual way): to be protected against being shot, to be free to enjoy nature, the freedom to educate kids even if the parents have low income, to be protected against being fired for no reason, to feel safe to eat food - even low cost without the fear of being poisoned....
I don´t need the "freedom to assault somebody". I would not do this with my partner, my employer, police officer ... nor anybody else.
Hah, I saw that too. Which video was that?
@mortenBP I'm not sure, but maybe one from Baguette Bound
I am 45 years old. The sad thing is we knew this when I was a kid. People are to focused on fights that don't matter..this is a very old game. And nothing will change sadly
We, also have full examination in my company that I work for. Every emplyee over 40 y old must go to full medical examination, every 2 (two) years. Employee under 40 years old are going every 3 (three) years.
All these med examination is paid by our employer.
I live in Croatia.
Congratulations on the birth of your new baby!
Oh, a recently a report came out, that internet research, how to immigrate another country went up to 7000% (!!!!!!!!) increase, for Germany. New zealand even higher. ( All from the US after the election results)
@@Salzbuckel Australian here. I live in a small(ish) country town in rural Queensland. Even out here we often hear American accents, not just tourists or backpackers on a working holiday but people who have made the permanent move. At last count there were something like 600k Americans in Australia who have done the same. I'm now in my 60's & experiencing many of the health issues that go with that. This includes several flights with the Flying Doctor to Brisbane (the Capital of Qld) for specialist treatment, multiple Ambulance trips to hospital & medical care. Total cost $0. Gun ownership is still possible but strictly controlled & regulated, thank God. One of the few things I admire our then PM for having the balls to introduce. I've been really lucky to have lived, worked & travelled all over the world excluding the Americas. Hardly a day goes by when I am not thankful for winning the elusive lottery of being born in this wonderful country. Even with our issues (its far from perfect) it's still a pretty good place to live. I'm guessing most Europeans would say the same about their own respective countries. Particularly seeing the shitshow that has devolved in the (dis) United States recently. Best wishes from 🇦🇨
another trending search term was "how to change my vote after the election"... *yikes*
11:08 we are planning for our first.
The city gave us $1K worth of fertility tests (paid only for added stuff we wanted to know.
The city will give us $5k upon birth the country will give us $20k over 3 years.
And yes, that’s USD amount which goes a very long way here in China.
Education for my child will be free until middle school.
We pay no income tax on our home.
Food/groceries are affordable and delivered to our doorstep every morning.
Hail Heidi! You told me that you and your partner had a small child, you told me that this cost thousands of dollars even with insurance.
Now I will tell you how it would have been for you if you had lived in my country Sweden.
Going to maternity care and seeing the midwife during pregnancy is free. Being in the hospital and giving birth to the baby is free.
Afterwards, visiting the children's reception to follow up when the child grows and how it develops is free.
Dental care for children up to the age of 23 is free.
You have parental leave up to 480 days, 390 days parental allowance is based on your you have. The father only has father off for 10 days, when the mother and the child come home from the hospital. The father is then entitled to 90 days' leave (12 weeks). Having a child in daycare is the highest cost for a child under the age of 3, $168 a month. Children over 3 years old it costs 112 dollars per month. This includes real food that is prepared at the daycare.
Then from year 1 up to and including high school, the elves get real food at school and this is free.
The fact that the child needs to see the school sister does not cost anything either.
Then going to school is free and in Sweden all children are safe at school, you don't need to worry about school shootings.
Then now when you hear how bad the school and its education is plus how expensive it is. So your children are safer in Sweden. There are actually Americans who have chosen to leave the US to move to Finland; Denmark or Sweden. Partly that it is a safe school environment and the bar gets a better education here, I have heard from these Americans who have moved to one of these countries.
Then for you and your partner, in Sweden you have 5 weeks of paid holiday and in some professions you get an additional 1 week of holiday from the year you turn 50.
Here in Sweden, everyone has a 40 hour work week. Then there are professions where you work for 7 days and then have 7 days off.
@@ingvartorma9789 stop rubbing salt on the wound 😭
19:20 I think I saw statistics that 90% of the graduated students in the USA do not work in their learned profession. Almost everyone has a bachelor or masters degree, but not using them. It's part of the education to teach children to select a career that they can follow until they retire. Here in Germany it is kind of normal to start your career after school/university in a company and stay there until you retire. You earn more money over time and get a better position if you work for it, while in the USA to get a better income or position inmost times you have to change the company. I know people that started as sales people for a company and now head a branch.
I can't talk for New Zealand but in Oz, we have some of the best mandated working conditions in the first world. This includes generous paid maternity and paternity leave.
@@garryellis3085 So you in oz beat us in Sweden in that benifits?
@@tomeng9041 highly doubt it.. Sweden is ranked like in the top 3 or 5 in the world iirc
@tomeng9041 Australia is not too far behind the Nordic countries in a lot of areas, but affordable or public housing is way behind Europe in general and its really have a negative effect especially with cost of living issues.
Regarding benefits in Australia its absolutely mandatory to provide workers from part time kids at McDonalds trough to the highest paying jobs with Superannuation which is a scheme where your employer has to pay into a government regulated retirement scheme of you choice that's not linked to your employer Approx 13% on top of your pay ,the employee can then also pay into this fund if they wish from their salary which has has tax benifits .There were a lot of high fee under performing funds until recently when reforms made a significant difference. Joe average Australians own significant chunks of share holdings in Major Corporations in Australia and World Wide so in some way they do benefit from corporate greed you could argue..
You can also choose the investment mix , environmentally friendly funds or manage your own fund. The result of this is Australians per capita are amongst the wealthiest in the world ( except you cant touch it til retirement age in most instances so cost of living issues certainly dont feel that way ATM) .Employers don't typically provide health cover so it's not a consideration in choosing or staying with an employer. Medicare is available to all and its means tested so depending on how much you earn you have to pay a tax levy or get private health cover which is far cheaper than the USA and covers if you choose dental and optical that Medicare doesn't .
We do pay higher taxes than the USA but we get better value for money through decent infrastructure, healthcare ,public safety etc .
One thing the USA would never bring in but I think would help greatly is mandatory voting which we have In Australia along with a positive voting culture and good protection of voting rights and access. This has a great effect on moderating the political climate and ensuring that radical politicians are usually limited to a very small number seat's in Parliament. By not electing a President but having a Prime Minister there is a lot more accountability as the party can oust a PM at any time if they are a threat to the parties and they are almost always an experienced politician .
I have spent 3 months in the USA in the past 15 years, visited 26 other countries and also lived in New Zealand and Australia and currently Japan for the past year .
May I compliment you? I see a change since you started your channel. You were a true American with limited knowledge of what happens outside the USA. Now I see a world citizen with completely different insights into how things are in the rest of the world. I come from the Netherlands myself, and certainly not everything is perfect here either. However, when I look at America, I fear that things are going completely wrong there. The rich and industrialists will become super rich and will continue to do so at the expense of their own population. The vast majority of people in Europe are also surprised about the choice they have made politically. Is this out of naivety, ignorance? No knowledge of the world outside the USA? Keep it up and try to reach as many compatriots as possible. In the USA it is "still possible" to express one's opinion freely. In Russia you will not survive.
Czechia also has a 2 amendment if you will, they have it in their constitution that you can defend yourself. No matter the means
20:24 in Canada, contract work have grown so much to the point it's next to impossible to find a permanent position...It wasn't like this as much before the pandemic
20:18 For perspective, as a Canadian professional father, I get 18 months paid paternity leave at ~33% of my salary from the government and my workplace "tops up" my salary to "keep me whole" because I have benefits that match "industry best practice" to remain competitive for labour. Heidi is so right that early connection is so important and figuring out being a parent is hard enough without adding wage labour outside the home.
Australia DOES have maternity leave provisions. They are mostly part of industrial agreements between employer bodies and labour bodies/unions however there are no minimum mandated
provisions except for full time employees
I used to live in Portugal and they have the same work identity issue so when I burned out and had to go back to Switzerland having lost everything, including my job and dropping out of university in the process, I felt like I was a worthless empty husk. Nowadays I'm working to change my mindset but every time someone asks me what I do for a living and I say I'm disabled, a part of me dies.
One point that kinda blends the guns and education is, a large portion of what the US spends on education has to go to security measures like metal detectors and guards because school shootings are such a common occurance, most other countries don't have to waste money on this stuff and can instead put that money towards improving the actual education!
And in Healthcare a huge portion of what the governement spends on healthcare goes to administration because of how insanely complicated your insurance system is...
Except the first part is blatantly false. Inflation adjusted, school *administration* cost has more than tripled over the last 30 years, while security cost has basically stayed flat.
🥰 Love your reactions 🥰
I find it incredible that Americans can put a price on having a baby just like having a car or a house.
Everything in the US is about money. That's why it is where it is. Very sad actually.
US gun ownership recalls of the ancient China swordsman era when everybody carried weapon, and resolve conflicts.
Please note: He showed an article dated 1998 that said Australia didn’t pay Paid Maternity Leave. We have a Paid Parental Leave scheme which was introduced on 1 January 2011. The scheme provides Parental Leave Pay at a rate based on the national minimum wage to support eligible working parents to take time off work to care for their child after a birth or adoption.
22:13 "Strong" unions can also cause issues if unchecked, i.e. are demands reasonable, can they work with organisations management for the benefit of the employees, etc.
Thus, good Government governance to manage both parties (union and employer) is critical.
Maternity leave paid has been in Australia for at least 15 years
Australia has had 12 weeks paid maternity leave since 2011. It's 12 weeks. . You can also take 12 months off without pay and your job is guaranteed to be there when you return. This applies to adopting a baby as well. In 2024 paid parental leave of 22 weeks was introduced. So if you are the parent of a baby you can now get this leave, not just the mum.
The USA has the world's highest incarceration rate, but here's the kicker: the US prison system is BIG on forced labor.
Prisoners work for practically nothing. *And they have no choice.*
So I find it tragically ironic that the USA accuses China of forced labor (which is false).
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"I always talk about the shirts i want, but i never get one" .. let that sink in ...
freedom ?
It's crazy with the insurance in the US. I live in Denmark, paying about $150 a month for all insurances, health, house, car, travel ect.
Freedom to chose 28 different toothpastes, but only vote for Kamala or Trump..fantastic idea 😆
All of Europe has good cheap public transportation
@@danielrobertgorman3257 cheap ?? Not this part (western part of europe) .
East Asia (China/Japan/S. Korea) & Singapore blow Europe out of the water in price and efficiency. London's subway is pretty pricy.
Thanks for this reaction and your chanel as well. You and your family are very welcome here in Germany. So consider to move...
Nothing against eating some (unhealthy) convenience food from time to time. If the rest of food is a good mix of everything (normally healthy).
Politics should be like a partnership: Sometimes you disagree - maybe do a little fight, but always with keeping in mind to want to live together in the future.
Different opinions are normal - we are human. But during this "hard" time ... also try to think about the "good" time, then it´s easier to find a good compromise for both.
In Europe they are looking for teachers, language course in the country where you want to live plus a course in pedagogy and last go. Requirements differ,
@16:54 - "shadow ban" - another example is subscribers don't get notified of new release video
Australia has paid maternity leave if they earn less than $175K/year or combined income of less than $365K/yr. 6 months guaranteed by the Government at ~ $1832/fortnight (federal minimum wage) + whatever their own employer offers, typically something like full pay for 3 months or half pay for 6 months.
Hey Heidi! I’m not sure if I have asked you this before but I’m kind of curious, if you haven’t already, are you planning to move to Europe? If yes, what country would you like to move to?
Hi hailheidi, thanx for reacting to this video well worth it, hope you react to his other video
16:24 you can easily order one off shirts for the low low here in China
As someone who has lived abroad for over 12 years now, I pretty much agree with everything that he is saying. He was wrong about Australia not having paid parental leave. You can get up to 22 weeks of paid parental leave in Australia. My two kids were born in a public hospital and that cost norhing. Now that I have kids and a good, high quality life abroad, I don't see myself ever going back to the US. It might be broken beyond repair and the public is at war with itself.
Good catch. Your host is a deep thinker. Respect
Paid maternity leave Australia and New Zealand do have it, 22 weeks at minimum wage and New Zealand has 26 weeks.
35h is actually full-time in many unionized companies in Germany
Love your reactions. You and Hubby are welcome here in Denmark. If you want to see other americans experienses about moving to Denmark, I can recommend "Travelin' Young". They talk about both the good AND bad in our small country.
Public sector, Caltrain detects three Worker to change the lightbulb. Can someone tell me why take three people?
Most companies have topay entitlements to contract labour in Australia, even casual workers.
If my math is correct, you should be a mother now! Congratulations 🌹 Hope you, hubby and the newborn are ok 💖
At the time of his video, he stated the World Freedom Index placed the USA at 15th in rankings, it was 17th in 2023, and I recently read it is now at 23rd for 2024, but can't find that source any longer. The reality is it's delving into fascism at an alarming rate.
On that maternity leave thing. (Hi from Finland). Even as single white male I do love it that my employer is kinda more generous than law requires when it comes to maternity leaves and I think women are like 80% of our work force. Full support to the women and for this reason they feel safe to have children because their income is secured and their job is secured. They even come visit us at the office while on their maternity leave with their kids. It is great. On top of that there is also the paternity leave which can be like 6 months or something, paid as well. Anyway, can't wait for one great new mother from our work coming back from her maternity leave next april or something. 😂
In the end it is cheaper for the employer as they don't have to train new employee and it shows loyalty from both sides. 😊
The reason only 3 countries have a constitutional right to own firearms is simply because the intelligent part of the world know perfectly well what happens when you overflow a country with firearms. The result is always extra work to morticians.
Smores poptart is ok as a sometimes food, but not as an everyday food.
In Singapore, we are not allowed to own guns. If you are caught possessing one, you will be prisoned for a long time. If you use the arm, then it is death sentence.
No guns = no gun violence. In Singapore, we have zero gun violence.
The issue with guns in America isn't just the amount of guns or the accessibility, as stated by other people in these comments, in Switzerland almost everyone has a gun too. The issue is that in America, having a gun "for safety" is seen as a valid argument, while in reality, last person you should give a gun is someone who think they're in danger. The issue is not "bad guys" with guns. It's scared and paranoid people with guns.
@Frahamen: What´s really shocking for me as an European is that the US police shoot about 1000 people annually (40% illegally). We in Europe consider the police as "the good ones". And here we have about 1000 people shot in total (not police only). And if a police officer here kills a person illegally .. he is called a murder .. and held responsible for this.
Here I trust the police.
Add the mentally unbalanced
I live in Malaysia, not even developed nation. US spends 10 X per capita on HealthCare (purchasing power parity) and has a healthcare system ranked below us. You can walk in, see the doctor within 90 minutes and walk out with 3 months of prescription medicine for US 0.25. In the US, it takes nearly 1 month to get an appointment in US
Your government taxes more, as it spends more to pay for more debts to support sputtering Economy
Just go to IMF or the World Bank. All the data is there. Go through it and you would realize that US is already behind many developing countries
German. If my employer wants to give me something extra, they can pay me a higher salary, offer me a company pension or a Christmas bonus, additional vacation pay, pay for my office coffee whatever. That's nice of him. Those are benefits. - At least as I understand the term.
The very fact that you guys call it a “benefit” over there is confusing for me. It sounds to me like it's something generous, from a particularly nice employer (something like a reward or a gift). Only one of the 10 or so possible translations of benefit to german comes close to what it actually is: “Leistungen”. But in my country that's not quite right either, because these are statutory(!) benefits. It's simply the law, I'm entitled to it and if the employer withholds it, he's in big trouble. And not just from me, but also from the Police, courts and social security authorities. It will be expensive for him. Very, very expensive.
Walmart is not allowed to operate in Australia because they refuse to pay their staff the minimum $25 Au an hour salary, which is a legal requirement for how all employers operate.
@@ChristopherJewels Nice. But I think it's almost even nicer how Walmart has fared here in Germany. They came, invested and made big statements (a cultural thing in the USA. We know that and make jokes about it). Then they left about 2 years later like a drowned rat with more than a billion dollars loss.
In the meanwhile they had to realize the hard way that neither employees, unions, customers, trade supervisory authorities, antitrust authorities, courts nor competitors are to be trifled with here. (Search here for “walmart fail germany”). At least a few lawyers, planning and construction companies, plaintiffs and the German state got a few euros out of it. At least this money stayed in the country and was properly taxed.
P.S. And even funnier is that the German brand Aldi is currently the fastest growing grocery store chain in the USA. (Perhaps they have learned from Walmart's mistakes? Revenge is a sausage. 😂😂)
Switzerland has a private healthcare system but it's guaranteed to poor ppl
I've always found it strange how the USA seems perpetually in elections. Two years for the main followed by two year "mid-term". This may have been needed in the distant past but today with mass media it's not. Also most countries aren't focussed on a parties money raised as a barometer of success.
(Outsider perspective.) Interesting observation, and I've wondered whether the never-ending political events & speeches & fundraising efforts have become so ingrained in American culture that it's just permanent. Here in South Africa most of us are vaguely aware that we have national elections every 5 years, and election campaigning doesn't gain much momentum until about 5 or 6 weeks before election day. And even then, political gatherings are few and far between. It's not because of apathy - most South Africans are politically invested and have some pretty hard views about it - but because real-life challenges are taking daily priority. Yes, most of those challenges are economical and the average voter just doesn't have the energy to go rah-rah-rah at political gatherings so often. The elections are still taken seriously but without a big circus happening every other year.
@20:45 - and employers complain about worker shortage and want more and cheaper skilled foreigner workers
He basically outlined all domestic problems in US, the Americans should take this up with your leaders and this should be the common themes for Americans in every elections lol😂
Tipping is corruption, political sponsorship is corruption.
The added benefit of biking is a far stronger and healtier body, which leads to less visits to doctors and hospitals.... its all in the circle....
When I watched Marjorie Taylor Greens attack and accuse aDr Anthony Gauchi of all sorts of terrible chargedy
Have you watched the video "In Shadow - A Modern Odyssee" yet? If not, I strongly suggest you do - I'm certain you'll like it.
I would be bankrupt if I lived in the US. I’ve had two children, C-sections (one emergency and one planned), one breast reduction, two back surgeries (spinal), an abortion and a bunch of other stuff connected to it like MR’s and numerous doctor’s appointments for minor things every year. I take medicines daily for ADHD and insomnia. In Sweden we pay some fees and prices for appointments and medicine but they’re capped at a certain level and once you reach that you don’t pay anything more that year. Most of it is covered by taxes.
I also studied at a nice university for 3,5 years to become a teacher. For free.
In the UK and Continental Europe healthcare is a right and firearms ownership is heavily regulated and rare.
In the USA healthcare is not a right, it is an expensive item that costs much more in real terms than anywhere else and firearms ownership is a right under a 233 year old law that was passed when Muskets were the best ones available.
As a Brit I do not have to worry about any direct cost to me if I get ill or am in an accident. Also, the average American is 129 times more likely to die in a gun related incident than I am.
I know where I prefer living. And it is NOT on the western side of the North Atlantic.
P.S. Many congratulations on becoming a Mum. ♥🙂
I live in Australia and for the most part I've been a union member, why because the union stood between me and the company. Even the most well meaning company owner will put his well-being a head of there workers, management can never be trusted to look after the unterests of there workers. That's what the unions for to protect the workers.
Many people in USA have lost their most important trait: common sense.
There are a lot of people in Finland who think that becoming a freelancer or an entrepreneur is not worth the risk compared to being an employee.
Small entrepreneurs complain that they don't have the same protections that average employees have and you know what? They're right.
It's actually the leftwing parties' job to lobby for these people because social democrats and labor unions represent employees and rightwing parties large corporations and shareholders.
Historically, when have pale people not changed a rule, law, treaty, identity, religion, names of locations, history, science, food, reality etc, in order to benefit their survival on the backs of others and their land???
Sweden has in total 480 days of paid parental leve, 390 of them based on your income (with a cap).Sadly I'm not a parent but parental leave is a good thing.
Australia does provide paid maternity leave.
Yyyeah.. Might the average American have missed it : The Robber Barons have finally wón. It took a bit more than a century, but here we are. And voters are àctually willingly supporting those Robber Barons…. They àctually voted one in the ultimate seat of power in the US.
Peeps looking in from the outside be like ‘Dis Gunna’ be Gud!” And fetch their local snacks.
The bit about the military: There’s enough dough sloshing around in the coffers of corporations and politicians to be able to have bóth a mighty military ánd a humane and socially advanced society with ample catch-nets for those that fall through the cracks.
Most TH-camrs who are actually interesting are people educated in a trade or well respected in a hobby. Very few people have the power of personality to be the talentless youtuber.
It is not that there is no health care in the US, the unique thing is that the health care in the US is a market, instead of a system.
It is not even a market, it's a cartel.
An actual free market of health care wouldn't be so bad.
Australia has paid maternity leave through the National Employment Standards (NES)
when he talks about education there is a y tube video called what has the uk given to us (usa) this will shock you
Interesting videoes as I'm Norwegian it's very interestibg when you compare Europe, especially Norway with the U.S.
I think Tyler Walker (an Americaner) hace some videoes I think you will find inyeresting. At last I must tell that my great grandmother emigrated from Norway to Fairview, Utah, USA in 1861( 26 years old) as she was mormon. And her father didn't like the mormon belief, so they didn't speak with eachother for many, many years. You might have heard about one of my relatives as he was a senator for Utah quite a long time.
Y’all need to watch more about our lives in China. Crawl out of the misinformation pit!