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
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.
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?
Romania
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.
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
You definitely have to ignore ecological concerns when talking about hydro.
There is no 100% clean energy, but hydro is pretty good
Agreed, but it is so incredibly geography dependant that you can’t really generalize with it.
Why?
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.
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
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.
I live in Japan and we tick most of these boxes as well
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.
Australia?
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.
A smidgen fewer school shootings, although the reason for that is very ephemeral and incomprehensive.
If you get cancer, you can have access to chemotherapy for free. And that’s basically it
We don’t have a 2 party political system and have functional public transport.
In new ways every passing day!
In most urbanized areas, even in suburbs, you can buy daily necessities (food, personal hygiene, medicine, etc) in just a short walk. If in a subdivision, like in a suburb, there would be some houses with an attached corner store. Failing to find what you need there, a convenience store would be a bit further (either still inside the subdivision, or just out the gate).
If you need to do your groceries, you can use public transport to the market. Even within subdivisions (with some exceptions, like those for the wealthy), there usually would be some form of public transport that could take you to the main highway, and from there, to the market.
That’s just one that immediately came to mind upon reading the prompt. Not sure if there are others, but it’s the most striking to me, and one that I’ve taken for granted until hearing about the US’ suburbs.
