Quote: (10-26-2013 11:28 AM)Starke Wrote:
Quote: (10-26-2013 08:17 AM)Blick Mang Wrote:
Why does income mobility matter in a society where there's little income disparity to begin with? I'm sure it's easy to climb the ladder in Denmark, when the "jump" from poor to rich is only a 1000€ difference in monthly income. In the US, on the other hand, you can have billionaires and minimum wage workers in the same city. Of course the graph will look different, because you're comparing apples and oranges.
Starke, have you ever been hospitalized in the US? How can Europeans accurately compare the quality of healthcare without the first-hand experience to do so? If I had a nickel for everytime a Scandinavian threw a graph at me and said, "look, we're better!" I wouldn't need to work in the first place.
I'm no Scandinavian, I'm a Brit based in Sweden who has also lived 2 years in the US.
I came here for the women, I stayed for the extremely high quality of life.
Also, this statement "the "jump" from poor to rich is only a 1000€ difference in monthly income" doesn't hold true when you examine the metrics used..
Comprehensive studies of social mobility use averages of income adjusted for relative purchasing power, to ensure a fair comparison.
Scandinavia also has millionaires and billionaires living in the same cities as those on minimum wage, the difference is that the rich here don't have to live in maximum-security gated communities - when you give the poor a fair shake, they are less likely to want to commit crimes against their social betters.
Wish we could fast forward 40 years to see how "low crime" is in these countries once Islam is a true force.
The poor live good in the USA. They have free housing, free phones, cable TV, free food, on and on.
The high crime in the USA is the socialist policies that push dad's out of the house and leave the kids with no structure in their lives.
What is great is in the USA, if you want to, you can get a head. I want to get ahead, working for someone else the rest of my life to pay for women to get an easy ride isn't for me. I want to be a true alpha, free of depending on some company or govt. to get me by.