we’ve got free healthcare and free universities =) (I’m from Brazil)
We’re small, and that means a lot of the problems facing America just pass us by.
I guess history and a sense of being part of an established culture.
Do also want to point out though that Americans talk their country down on here. It’s a place of extremes but that diversity in theory means anyone could find their niche. They also have pretty much every biome you might want to live in from desert, to parks to icy tundra - I can see why you might not need a passport.
- Actually diverse politics (though still dominated by moneyed right wing)
- Amazon is not the nº 1 online retailer and there exists… some competition between the major ones
- Significantly less infighting between federal govt and states - phones were recently banned from every school as federal law, no “let states decide” bullshit
- We don’t have to pay to make searches in justice databases
- We have govt-funded hospitals and healthcare (doesn’t always work and there’s constant right-wing ill-will to sell it all off)
- 🏴☠️ So long as you don’t pirate stuff for profit, nobody will go after you 🏴☠️
At this point. If youre a democracy and just voting against money in all ways, shapes, and forms you’re oopsed.
It doesn’t have a traitor as a president
A president cant win without getting majority of votes. If there is no one with over 50% of the votes, a second round happens between the top 2
French?
Public healthcare
Super annuation
Preferential & compulsory voting
No tipping culture
Consumer protection laws
Gun control laws
Weather service isnt privitised
Wide variety of multicultural foods
Farming sector isnt controlled by a few companies (ie chickens)/subsidy schemes (looking at you corn)
Organised religion has less participation and dropping steadily
Adoption of rooftop solar systemsAlso significantly less instances of tech billionares, team factional politics, media oligarchs & donald trumps.
There are a lot of areas we could do better and are ashamed of though.
We’ve got one media oligarch and that’s one too many.
Assuming you’re talking about Australia since you mentioned Super.
Would we consider him australian still?
No chance.
India - multi-party democracy. US is too big and too diverse of a place to have effectively have two parties for every region and every cohort of the country. It should try to copy some aspects of India’s multi-party culture. Some states in India have parties that don’t exist in any other state. And some parties exist across many states. Basically a mix of current US system and the European system.
Instead of starting a list of those things and ending up with my App crashing, I will name the one thing I think the US does better.
I think having a speed limit on your highways is kinda a sane thing to have.
Speed limits are great until some idiot decides to follow it.
Thats not a speed limit. That’s a speed minimum.
Our target speed (the speed you are recommended to drive) is faster than the US speed limit.
I mean, it’s a nice tickling in the balls when you engage the warp drive on your way home. But it also inspires a lot of amateur race car drivers. Nah, I can do without.
I say minium because if you’re not doing it you’ll get hell from all drivers around you and realistically everyone is pushing 10 over.
And nuclear energy
(Germany I guess)
Even when ignoring environmental concerns and purely looking at it from a financial perspective: Renewable energy is more profitable already.
Yes, but they are unreliable. Nuclear is an amazing option for base loads, and then adding renewables on top of that just makes sense. Battery energy storage is still insanely expensive, so nuclear is a very valid alternative in countries that haven’t let their nuclear production capabilities fall off to the point of taking decades.
Hydro power can be great for baseload and storage
Agreed, but it is so incredibly geography dependant that you can’t really generalize with it.
You definitely have to ignore ecological concerns when talking about hydro.
There is no 100% clean energy, but hydro is pretty good
This seems like a pretty obvious one: We have democracy.
Ow
Don’t feel too bad about it, remarkably few countries really do have democracy (even though many have more of it than the US).
To be fair, what we specifically have is a republic, although we do have democratic voting to elect our representatives.
Some of those representatives take the stance that they can choose whatever they want best, regardless of what their constituents want, because they were voted in.
Other representatives take the stance that they should vote for whatever the majority of their constituents want.
We have a Constitutional Republic…
Which is a type of democracy
Some…representatives…choose whatever they want…because they were voted in.
Oh that there’s the Republicans.
Others…vote for whatever the majority of their consituents want.
Found the Democrats.
I come from a third world country that is worse than the US in a lot of ways, but I don’t have to worry about getting shot by a rando with a gun.
Every?
The only thing the US got going for itself is that it has a bunch of really rich oligarchs. Oh, it has (soon, had) nice nature too, that’s it
Almost always higher pay but worse everything else. It’s a golden goose to extract revenue from but actually being American is kinda cringe especially when the USA chants break out.
Almost always higher pay? Maybe for <5% of the higher salary jobs, but most jobs pay less as many states have no or just shitty minimum wage laws
Face it, the USA sucks from every side you look at it
We elected a fascist leader once and then we learned from it.
If you’re from Germany or Italy: I don’t think this is really true anymore. The fascist parties in these countries got 30%/21% of votes.
If you get cancer, you can have access to chemotherapy for free. And that’s basically it
We have the four freedoms that guarantee the free movement of goods, capital, services, and people as part of the European single market.
You realize that between the states the US has all of those?
You’re still one country. Having states/provinces isn’t even a unique thing to the US
Assuming you’re from Canada based on the .CA and says provinces (vs oblasts, cantons, or some other regional division), I would point at the interprovincial trade barriers.
That’s not entirely true. Texas seems to have a problem with people leaving for various services and it’s a federal crime to transport certain flora between states, even if it is fine in both states.
