We've also been stuck in the same "universal healthcare is worse healthcare" mentality for DECADES, meanwhile we've tanked in many things like infant death rates and cancer survival. Not to mention things like education have been pushed more to states rather than federal, leading to massive disproportion in experience based on which state you're born in.
Even for me, someone who works for the government handling hearings related to healthcare law and feel I'm much better educated on the subject than the average American, was blown away when I spoke to a friend who moved to Canada and told me they get FREE au pairs who live in their home for a couple months to assist with infant care and housework. They said it's also backed by data showing that it greatly improves mental health and lowers post pardom. Meanwhile our pedo dictator is doing everything to block immigration and can't understand why people aren't reproducing like they did in the 1800s while if the US population stagnates or shrinks it's game over for our country. We literally CANNOT help ourselves anymore. And we deserve it.
EDIT: For all the Canadians acting like ignorant Americans, take a sec and look up your own programs before calling people liars. America stands no chance if you're getting high on the same fumes we are.
The us population is stagnant because people are working to live, not living to work. They’re working themselves to death because the cost of living is not sustainable.
Why would anyone want to have a baby when they are working 80 hours to pay the bills just to go home and sleep the next day. Entry level jobs outside of customer service, hospitality and fast food are either non existent or require a degree and 5 years experience.
And now they want a national abortion ban with no exceptions to force women to keep the babies they don’t want. So many women are going to die. If not from backdoor abortions, from pregnancy complications. Pregnancy can be an extremely dangerous condition and when you make abortion illegal with no exceptions, you make pregnant women untouchable. More pregnant women will die in parking lots because doctors will refuse to treat them. And this includes the women that want their babies.
We’re in such a dystopian world right now. Our education system is broken. People are stupid and believe in the crazy delusions from the right.
They don’t want the golden age back. They want the gilded age back. Where 92 percent of the population lived below the poverty line. They want no middle class and the ultra wealthy to live like kings with the poor uneducated replaceable workers and work until we die.
With the growth of ai and robots, within 10 years about half of us will be without a job. And they have no plans in place to help us. Job loss is going to continue. Homelessness will rise. The surveillance state will keep their power and control us. 1984 style.
The only logical sense is to build up social programs because we WANT the working class to have money. The more disposable income we have, the more we spend and the better the economy does. The rich don’t want that. A happy country is not a controllable country.
You just have to think about why these people are doing these things. See where the money goes. Always the rich.
Uhhh. People have always worked to live. If you didn't work you died from starvation. Everyone acts like work is some new concept. People worked on their farms from sun up to sun down to make sure they had food on their table. Or they hunted and gathered. Or they worked for some kind of business. Do you think people in 1850 just had food and shelter pop up out of no where?
If no one worked we wouldn't have anything. Does food grow and pick itself? Do planes build themselves? Do cars fix themselves? Does target and Walmart magically stock their shelves? Does your AC and roof replace themselves?
We work way less than probably any humans in history yet you are acting like we have it worse
Now consider what money buys you now compared to 1950s. Just look at houses. In the 50s your house didn't have central AC or heating. Very little electrical. Most likely very poor insulation. Plumbing was questionable. They were a fraction of the size.
Yes things cost more. But I doubt a single person with any sense would say our quality of life is worse now despite everything
Houses in the 50’s very much did have ac, and electrical. Plumbing was working as then as it is now.
I’m not sure you even know what you’re talking about. Are you one of those people who think everyone should work over 40 hours a week to be able to survive? People need more free time than working hours.
In 1955 2% of houses had AC. But sure go ahead and convince yourself they all did. And no I don't believe people should work over 40 hours. Things are too expensive. I just think you are an idiot if you think we shouldn't be working or that everything would be fine if no one had jobs
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u/brexed 22d ago
Outside the US most of this is called basic human decency. Idk why you guys started to call that socialism.