“It Felt So Fake”: 40 Culture Shocks In The USA, Shared By Foreigners

This this this. Oh for the days where ONE person could earn the family income. When this changed is (IMO) when society started to decline.

Americans need to understand that ferocious capitalism without social protection leads to modern slavery. Wild wild west v.0.2

And those in charge presently want to make it even worse for the workforce. They are against unions, against protections for employees, they are against any type of paid leave. They want slave labor.

Exploitation of the wrkers? You mean capitalism, don't you?

The country is - only a very few people are.

I used to live on Ibiza - you're right, the workers had been priced out of anywhere halfway acceptable to live in.

I'm from a Third World country. We have laws and social protections, like universal healthcare, and federally supported retirement pensions. Our country, Brazil, isn't even a poor country. We're just still finding our way out of decades of mismanagement and rampant corruption during the dictatorship. The results of which are extreme social inequality. The middle class have a very good standard of living, in fact even better than the middle class of the United States. But that's mostly because the middle class makes up a smaller percentage of the population, and the lower classes, which are a much larger segment of the population, live in absolute poverty. This is the direction that the United States is definitely heading.

the problem is not the lack of laws per se, but the lack of laws to ensure minimum social protection.

This is one of the more obnoxiously b******t statements I've seen here in a long while.

He loves the military as a hammer but disdains those who man it as “suckers and losers” yet, the right still vote for him because he promises to own the libs.

It isn't veterans America loves. It is the active military. And really mostly just throwing money into being the strongest country in the world.

Sadly, neither one of our political parties takes good care of our vets.

S u i c i d e needs to be talked about.

Were they ever a peacekeeping force? The internationally known peacekeeping force is Canada........"Does the United States Contribute Peacekeepers? Yes, the United States does contribute peacekeepers. As the unofficial leader of the United Nations, the United States plays a significant role in orchestrating peacekeeping operations all over the world. On the other hand, the United States has only contributed a few dozen peacekeepers. People coming from the United States are often required to have at least five years of professional law enforcement experience before they are allowed to join peacekeeping operations. The bar is also relatively high because the United States often contributes armed personnel to various conflicts around the world. Therefore, the United States is hesitant to contribute peacekeepers because it can sometimes be difficult to tell the difference between someone who has joined as a peacekeeper and someone who has joined as a soldier."

So naive!

Peak nanny state

Unions and strikes, like the rest of the world did 100 yrs ago.

because it's hard to implement laws that oblige employers to pay a living wage when it's so easy to shift the responsibility to the consumer (it's their obligation to reward a service) or to the provider (the quality of their work and time is poor so they don't deserve higher pay).

If places would pay a living wage it would work, but unfortunately it hasn't changed yet. I do know of some restaurants coming in around my area that are change the method and actually paying more and no tipping.

In the long run, this would be best. In the short run, the victims would be wait staff that makes under $3 and are trying to feed their families. If there were a way to stick it to the man without hurting the little guy, we would do that.

It is that simple. But people are afraid what others think

Ace

Ace

Community Member • points

posts

comments

upvotes

FollowUnfollow

Premium

Premium user. Get details.

Not that simple. If you fail to tip in a restaurant there's a fair chance you might be followed out and verbally harassed as to why you didn't tip, there's a good chance that you may be noted and recognised if you go there again, and there's pretty much a guarantee that if you did it more than once at any given establishment you're going to get very bad service or worse if you want to continue going there.

That's the whole concept of a free market... Sadly few avail themselves

When it comes to actual wait staff, whose salaries are based on an expectation of tip, it would be absolutely cruel to not tip and force them to suffer in order to make a point. For everything else? Sure.

Yup. We started out as a country rejecting royalty but have ended up making the generationally wealthy into the new royalty.

Vegas is walkable if you do it inside buildings! I had decent stroll along the strip in air-conditioned comfort. Dallas was horribly unwalkable - it was an obstacle course of parking lots and rough land to get a few doors down to a different restaurant, and crossing the road was insane - 8 lanes and no crosswalks.