GDP hasn't been a good metric for a good 50 years now. It's good when your country burns coals and shits out steel, not much more. High gdp for sure, higher salaries for sure, everything needed to survive is twice as expensive and you have 0 social safety net.
Meanwhile in the US
- mortgage are above 7%, twice as high as in Europe
- min wage is bellow the Polish min wage, half the German min wage
- life expectancy is going down, 4 years under the EU 27 average, 6 years less than France
1. EU barely has 30 year fixed rates - of course rates will be higher for a much riskier loan to counterparty.
2. Yes true, the minimum wage in Poland is 13 cents higher than the US. Fewer than 1% of US income earners are paid the federal minimum wage. In Poland, ~15% of income earners are paid the minimum wage.
3. Yes our life expectancy is bad - although better when you do demographic control, we have a problem with obesity and easy access to guns causing suicide.
4-6. sorry but relative wealth measures are not effective for deciding how affluent a society is. our ‘pensioners’ in poverty are only in poverty relative to the very high median earnings in the US. They could take their money to the EU and spend better than many of those other retirees.
1. Yes, we are quite literally defending you while doing those things right now.
2. Trump has bad policies yes, although I hadn’t heard anything about an actual military takeover of Greenland.
3. It’s not as if EU doesn’t have tariffs on the Us already, for instance you all are very protective of the auto industry as well as your domestic farmers, just to name a few. I think tariffs are bad policy on both sides of the atlantic
Also even if you sent 100% of the money collected through tariffs back to the EU through Ukraine, what's the point we're back to square one with extra steps in the middle... The US are serving their own interests, it's totally fine, you don't have to pretend they're sacrificing themselves for the greater good of humanity.
Also, the literal advertisement tagline for Apple, one of the wealthiest company in the world, is about how their product "preserve privacy"... so I doubt that privacy is wealth-destroying
yah, so the compacting machines wouldn't pop into half-full bottles all the time yuck. and now the caps are connected to the bottle. which is a Good Thing (TM)
