^if you knew why such posts?
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Oh look, another person conflating statistics and confusing averages and medians. And using wikipedia for statistics - how very sophisticated of you.
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I'd rather rely on statistics than stereotypical myths with no hold in reality..
I know reality can be a bitch, but there's no point in getting angry at me for showing how reality is.. it's neither me, nor the French people who drove the US economy to what it is, nor is it us who gave up on Unions and worker rights... I simply gave a comical and very false post a sprinkle of reality..
Wages and conditions are as the people allow them to be...
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Originally Posted by bunt_q
Do you really believe that the average French citizen is over 50% richer than his American coutnerpart?
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A higher income does not necessarily make them "richer" but I can certainly say that I have never seen poverty, homelessness or grit in France that comes even close to match that I've seen in the US..
Wealth is also distributed more equally in France, health care is covered through taxes, pension trough state etc so yes I do think the French is "richer" than his US counterpart as he doesn't have as many extra costs in life... perhaps not 50% but with some margin and he works less to make it, so it seems like a good deal to me..
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Originally Posted by bunt_q
Right. And all U.S. residents are the same
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When comparing nations we need to look at a per capita/average basis - there's no point in comparing Donald Trump with a French factory worker and expect to get anything useful out of that..
Apples to apples, oranges to oranges...
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Originally Posted by bunt_q
Nevermind that median household incomes vary from $37k in Mississippi to $66k in New Hampshire.
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Great then an entire household in New Hampshire almost makes as much as a single McDonalds worker does here...
Mate, it's not like income doesn't vary in other nations - people in Picardy doesn't have the same income as in Alsace either.. but what's the point of comparing Alsace with New Hampshire when talking about France and the US?
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If your argument is that Americans underestimate the diversity in Europe (true), you probably shouldn't go and do the same.
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I know reality isn't always pleasant to be reminded of and that it can awaken feelings and even anger - but that's the thing about reality.. it's just how it is..
All nations varies, all nations have diversity.. all continents vary and all continents have diversity..
I'm all for making fun of the French - but I do not want to reenforce ludicrous stereotypes such as a Frenchmen wishing he could afford to buy food at KFC - that is not how reality is..
In fact it should be the French who made fun the other way around, but the French are humble - they know that there's a bigger fish right around the corner ( or in their case across the borders ) and that is probable the difference between European nations and the US..
'The US has been #1 on it's continent for a long time and very high on a global level ever since WW2 so it's become common to think it's still like that, but reality is that the world moves on it changes.. the real wages in the US has not changes since the 60s.. but it has changed in a LOT of other nations and I can understand that it can be hurtful when one grows up thinking a thing is one way when it turns out to be another, but I will again point out that the responsibility for wages, for rights and for life in general lies with the voters..
There's a reason why you hear news about strikes in France.. about people people taking to the streets and 'fighting' for their rights.. they don't accept stagnation or reduction of rights or wages - productivity have increased greatly the last decades and so should the wages - and that is why today that the French worker makes more working less than his US counterpart..
It's a bit funny to be writing this on May 1st but reality is that workers has the power in this world - but they can only use it if they stick together and fight for improvements and their rights..