We need to get back to being human beings and human doings
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There’s this thing that Americans have. An old world ideal. Where they picture is all having two hour lunches and generally chilling about the place.
I’m pretty sure I saw stats saying that in EU people actually do work less than in US. For example in most EU states you get way more paid leave than in US.
they picture is all having two hour lunches and generally chilling about the place.
I’d say it’s overselling it, but there’s a grain of truth to that.
some of the levels of outright poverty, both urban and rural more than challenge that in the states.
It depends. In poland where I live there are pretty much no slum districts despite being less developed than US in general.
You think Europeans are friendly? In my experience people are just people.
From what I gather US has that culture of fake friendliness, while in EU people react just more honestly. It might not be that pronounced in UK that shares more culture with US than EU.
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American here - we’re conditioned from birth to think not working as hard as possible to make money for somebody else is lazy.
I’m in the fortunate position that I could tell my chronically ill spouse to just not work.
Took them literally years to work through the guilt of not working, the capitalist conditioning of work being your source of value was so strong.
Of all the things I’ve accomplished in my life, knowing that my beautiful, creative, loving spouse gets to spend their days not being crushed by the capitalist machine is my most cherished.
This guy is a weird spiritual business guru. This post isn’t an observation on modern American life, it’s one of his many posts that try to sell you on his business where he claims that he can teach you how to monetize your passions and not have to actually work
There are places in America that are like this, you have to be able to afford it though.
Yes, the naivety of OOP not realizing that southern Europe is some of the most expensive real estate in the world and that the Americans moving there are moving with hoarded wealth is hilarious to me. “Let them eat cake” energy
Last time I checked there were actually non-rich people in southern Europe.
There’s like 6 of them
Most of Southern Europe is significantly poorer than most of Northern Europe…
