Decades ago, restaurant workers were paid "regular" wages, and got tips. A single mother could feed 3 kids AND buy a small house with those tips. Greedy restaurant owners hated the idea of their workers getting "money for nothing" (except busting their butts!) and changed the laws so the workers are paid obscenely low wages and then have to share their tips with EVERYONE employed at the restaurant whether they bust tail or not. It's disgusting. Especially because "tipping is optional", but those workers don't get their wages supplemented if diners don't tip!

Did you hear about Vatican???

Two things. 1) Citizens in most other developed countries don’t have to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket as Universal Healthcare provides. 2) Americans hospitals are businesses so they will try to charge more if they can.

If you've ever traveled outside the United States (and, sadly, only a small percentage have), you will quickly find out that the United States is not the greatest country in the world.

I'm patriotic, a veteran from a family of veterans. I have to agree, America is not top of the heap.

America is, dead set, THE WORST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

I lived and worked in the States for a few years back in the 80's / early 90's and I can say, hand on heart, that it was (mostly) a truly wonderful place (ok, I didn't visit everywhere, but NY, Florida, West Coast, Arizona, Texas etc were pretty bloody good) with forward looking, optimistic people. Fast forward to 2002 (ie post 9/11), the last time I visited, and I was struck by the amount of paranoia, aggression to anyone non American and just general angriness / fear that was shown by everyone from politicians to newsreaders to the general public. When I returned to the UK, I vowed that would be the last time I went to the USA and decided shortly after that to close two reasonably profitable businesses there due to the sheer bloody mindedness of officialdom towards non American companies. I must point out at this juncture that I'm a white, middle aged guy with a military background, so if I felt rather put out, how do you think someone of a middle eastern/ asian background felt

Were not the best at everything by a longshot, but overall yeah I agree. And I would absolutely think that folks from other countries will argue they are the best and rightly so.

America is hundreds of years behind socially.

Will Mcavoy (Jeff Daniels) Newsroom......America is not the greatest country in the world.....watch on YouTube,pretty much says it all......love the bit where he says "we used to wage war on poverty not poor people "

Nah, that would be Canada.

Nah!

Just google "best countries in the world"

So fake (I’m American)

the scam of the century

Well Soldiers fought for us Americans freedom so that we can be proud of our country and have freedom of speech and by no means am I saying ours is better than any other country I'm just saying that there are things for us to be thankful/proud of

Yeah, the line between patriotism and national is thin and dangerous.

I've travelled enough of the world that I appreciate and enjoy other countries and cultures. But I still feel America is the best place, flaws and all.

Enough said...time to move on after that statement.

No. Not anymore.

Every country says the same

Never hear someone say "God bless Portugal" do you. Americans have been drinking the Kool Aid for 2 hundred years+

Yeap they actually think that way, which is sad

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Not only americans, a lot of people from around the world think that too...

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Why do people think we think this...the people (who have brains) here literally hate America...

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It's more of a hollywood movie plot than anything else.

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I agree we are over the top, but when a country is having militaristic issues they call the USA. De Gaulle and Churchill begged us for support. Our boys crossed the pond and took care of your countries. The French helped us during the revolution only because they wanted the British defeated.

Right name, connections, or education and you can get through life with good money and almost no actual work.

It's working how it's supposed to, it just isn't designed to benefit the patient.

I love using the “...other countries manage it though?” argument on businesses. New Zealand has a terrible sick leave allowance so our progressive party poked Jacinda with a stick about it and she agreed to up it. She’s coddling the effing HELL out of the businesses but a bunch of them are still like “How are we supposed to survive if we give our employees a less pitiful amount of sick leave?!?!” And I’m like “the same way companies in other countries do it?”

Any job over minimum wage now requires a college degree. Even for an interview. The exceptions are few.

Employers like this fail with diminishing returns. Their employees are too exhausted to work efficiently, and unable to come up with good policies to increase efficiency. You end up with people doing four hours worth of work in a twelve hour day because they're just too broken for more.

Most harmful american myth.

Totally f****d up. Should be a blind trust. The way lawmakers sold off stocks and bought others after coronavirus briefings in February is disgusting. Looking at you Kelly Loeffler. Gross.

Right? Our obsession with exact time is just so weird.

Its literally only one party at the top of the heirachy, devided in two, to give you the illusion of having a choice

This is America in a nutshell. People who think hard work matters aren't being objective. The hardest workers make the fewest dollars, and they're desperately praying for the day when their "American Dream" finally begins. It's incredibly demoralizing.

Reagan messed up so many things, long term.

Highly recommend the Youtube channel "Ask a mortician" to learn more - Caitlyn Doughty there offers some great education and information (and fun, too!).

For some reason, New Zealand is the only other country that does it. Even though we have effing public healthcare. For what it’s worth, I always just kind of assumed that everyone finds those ads as boring and annoying as I do.