Europeans wouldn't last in America

The main thing is that Europeans basically can't be fired.

This is of course a terrible policy that is bad for the economy and leads to a bunch of useless people earning money they don't deserve. We may vote for a retard to be president multiple times, but at least we can allocate our labor resources in the most efficient way possible. Its part of the reason we can bounce back so well after recessions (other than the fact that we can essentially print money).

Our extreme wealthy are workaholics.

Wrong. Its actually even easierto get fired here.
And keep in mind our jobs pay less than what high schoolers make while everythings is more expensive

the rich in america was very good at instilling that a man's value is solely in how hard they work. americans are basically the perfect little slaves for the rich

We can be fired+europeans are more productive.

The main thing is that Europeans basically can't be fired.

It's intriguing how you can live in a such an absurd bubble and not recognize how absurd it is

He's right. Easier firing makes the labor market more flexible. There's a reason Europe is still fucked from 2008.

this is solely because of car exclusive infrastructure which impedes on every other aspect of life besides work. if Americans had to catch a train the entire country would collapse in three days.

Kkkkkkkk

I knew a lot of white golems for reasons

They are silly and naive.

Extremely naive.

I almost laughed when some said they wanted to go to Rio de Janeiro

American is a proud corporate slave

i'm crying here in my ruined economy in my rent controlled apartment where I ride my bicycle along the anti-car-company cycle paths to my job where i work 4 hours a day and spend the rest of the time pooping or going on walks and cashing in enough to buy a 5070 every month after expenses

please save us america-san, I must work 80 hours a week and buy a mcmansion, i crave it

You're a broke loser.

Whether I'm a loser or not is debatable but I'm not broke. I have enough to be content with my life. You are a corporate condom.

working 40+ hours a week just so i can afford a shitty oversized car and a shitty oversized house

couldnt be me lmao i would much rather be forced to use public transport or walk everywhere instead of working 5 extra hours a week

Rent control is another terrible policy.

Rent control in Stockholm is a failure and has led to long waits for apartments. Rent control benefits incumbent renters at the expense of anyone trying to find an apartment currently.

Sadly, rent control is legal here, and is part of the reason NYC and SF are so unaffordable (along with over-restrictive zoning).

Euroretards be like

yeah i'm not gonna bother to risk working 8 hours 1 minute because i appreciate my mental health

and then proceed to pay 50% taxes and import millions of terrorists

I'm self employed dumbass

Yeah because you are a cuck, forced to life in a poor shithole in a shitty commieblock, NGMI

says the cuck cucking 40+ hours a week just to afford a shitty oversized car and a shitty oversized house lmao

Yeah don't forget to thank your mom for a plate of buckwheat today

rent control in stockholm is a failure

no it's not

rent control benefits incumbent renters at the expense of anyone trying to find an apartment currently

and? I would rather wait than spend 100k SEK more every year for the rest of my life. stockholm is extremely affordable rather than living in failed states like london where you have to pay £2k to rent a converted broom closet

be a good cuck and return to work your boss is waiting

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You picked your country's worst policy to brag about.
For the record:
Cycle paths: Good
Public transit: Good
Rent control: Bad
Hiring/firing restrictions: Bad
Zoning: Bad
Wooden high rises: Good

I'm not making some "everything in America is good" argument. Europe has better urban design, but America has better labor regulations. There are policies I like in Sweden better (urban design, building codes). And again, some cities here also have rent control, supreme court upheld their legality recently.

and? I would rather wait than spend 100k SEK more every year for the rest of my life

Then your stuck there and it hurts everyone moving in. There's no incentive to build when you have rent control, and many people have no guarantee that they will ever be able to get into an apartment.

Its better to address why new apartment construction is not happening rather than to price fix rent. London is expensive because they don't build enough, not because they don't have rent control.

The main thing is that Europeans basically can't be fired.

you might actually have brain issues

t. landlord apologist

fucking retard

but America has better labor regulations

nigga we cannot even have closed shops

euros have a long history of being ruled over.
America was built on giving the ruling class the finger, and a bullet

Its harder and more expensive to fire people in most European countries than in USA. Are you actually disputing this?

In USA, you can be fired for whatever reason and unless its because of your race, gender or religion, there are basically no rules.
eurodev.com/blog/employment-differences-between-us-and-europe

One of the most significant differences between employment practices in the US and Europe is the concept of at-will employment. In the US, most employment relationships are at-will, meaning that either the employer or the employee can terminate the relationship at any time and for any reason (if it is not discriminatory). This provides a great deal of flexibility for employers but can also result in job insecurity for workers.

In contrast, European countries generally have more robust employment protections and regulations, including laws that make it more difficult for employers to terminate employees without cause. For example, in most of Europe, employers are required to provide notice to employees before terminating their employment and must have a valid reason for doing so. This provides workers with a greater degree of job security, but it can also make it more difficult for businesses to change their workforce when necessary.

By the time brownoids learn the difference between Europeans and Americans, it's already too late.

If you think rent control works you are the retarded one.

NYC and San Francisco both have rent control it sure hasn't kept either one affordable. Rent control just benefits people who have been there longer, causes housing to degrade since landlords have no incentive to maintain it, and disincentives construction. The problem with housing is that there is more people who need housing than housing available, price controls do nothing to address this.

If you want more affordable rent in USA, we need zoning reform, permitting reform and building code reform and for local politicians to be pro-development.

Americans really are the goodest goys. They will even brag about not allowing 60 year old cashiers to sit down while beeping products.

all of europe has the same regulation

Unions are often bad for society. They're a special interest group who seeks to benefit their members, often at the expense of society.

Our more powerful unions cause lots of damage. Longshoremen and Elevator Constructors in USA have prevented automation of their fields, causing our ports to lag behind and for elevators to cost 5 times more in USA than in Europe.

Dutch work ethic went from 2 to 1 in like 20 years.

Did I ever claim this? I said 'most'. That is accurate.

"we need the government to make laws about (x)!"

law is made about (x)

law about (x) creates worse problems

"we need the government to make law (y) to get rid of (x)!"

government passes law (y) to get rid of (x)

law (y) creates more problems than (x)

rinse and repeat, dipshit.
this is the euro model, fuck off over there if you like it so much

this is also our model in many cases.

You forget too that any time new housing is to be made boomers will complain to their local town/city council not to approve it because muh property value. Thinking of housing as an investment was a fucking mistake.

How would you solve the housing crisis without the government? Sounds like a few ultrarich basically own the fucking cities.

Then your stuck there

no, because you can swap apartments

sweden has had massive success with rent control and public housing, any failure lies in relying TOO MUCH on the market. look at miljonprogrammet, that program was one of the best things ever made in this country and a repeat while having learned some lessons about urban planning (fewer colossal concrete monsters) would save this country, although probably an issue is that every other person is using their property as an investment so they would seethe if housing got cheaper

and many people have no guarantee that they will ever be able to get into an apartment.

i don't know anyone who is perpetually lacking housing. only about 35% live in rentals anyway according to my data

americans will literally get paid 100k for pushing paper around with lower COL than in western europe and then throw a tantrum
the reality is that if you can't make it in america you can't make it anywhere else

SAG AFTRA (voice actors union) is basically killing American voice acting. They forces their members to strike because they wanted to strangle the voice acting market even more. Currently if you aren't a big name voice actor you basically get no jobs because SAG prioritizes them over even mid level VAs. Because of SAG, voice acting is basically impossible to have a career in now. Additionally their striking has left such a bad taste in the global market's mouth that devs are turning away from American VAs and towards British VAs because they don't know who in America could be part of SAG. This won't impact big VAs like Matt mercer or Laura Bailey, but anyone that's already not a popular VA will basically have a dead career now.

you did, yes

ugh all of america is the same!

nooo each european state is different!!!]

you really aren't. you're all the same flavor of faggot, just with different languages.

Well yes, NIMBYism is the main problem that needs to be solved.
The problem is not that housing is an investment but that so many people's wealth is tied up into one singular real estate asset.

People don't want to hear it but high homeownership rate is honestly a bad thing, it would be better if people rented housing from investment firms and corporations and had most of their wealth in stocks and bonds (or shares of said investment firms). This way they're not so over-exposed to one asset. It would also make us more mobile, which is also a good thing.
Housing crisis, at least in USA, results from government over-regulation, and deregulation is the best solution.

there is no "housing crisis".
that's a democrat lie to get government funding to build more section 8 housing for niggers to live in.

basically

I was clearly generalizing and wasn't speaking literally, hence 'basically'. You're being pedantic, the basic point is that its generally harder to fire people in Europe than USA. That is true.

oh dear, you sound angry

we also work 8-10 hours but we don't sleep in cars and we can manage to pay for healthcare

good golem

oh look, the eurofag is an anime posting pedo.

Well no, there's a shortage of market rate housing that results from zoning. In fact, Republican state legislators are overall doing a better job to address this than Democrat state legislators.

This has little to do with affordable housing. We aren't able to build affordable housing anyways, it costs more money to build affordable housing than market rate.

lol there's one like this from ireland too

basically is referring to "can't be fired", not to "Europeans"
i thought efls should be good at english

oh look, the burger is a tourist

Sucks to be you I guess

stop touching kids, eurofag

AAAAAAAAAAAA WHY DON'T EUROS WORK 90 HOURS A WEEK FOR MR. BOSS MAN

stop projecting your fantasies, newfag

You don't because they do.

Because of what this anon said. You can rely too much on the market. Supply/demand for housing is incredibly skewed because of rich boomers buying houses and refusing the sell them because muh investment. Same with a lot of landlords. They will create artificial scarcity and hold empty apartments/houses just to increase prices.

I generally like capitalism but the issue with is it that it'd a sociopath's playground. The less morals and empathy you have the richer you get.

What did you just say? This is absolutely backwards. The issue isn't that housing is expensive and a lot of wealth is tied into it, the issue is that housing should not be as expensive as it is in the first place. Housing used to be much more affordable here because they were not thought of as an asset. Boomers came up with the idea of housing being an asset which it absolutely should not be. The government over regulation you're talking about is because boomers thought of their houses as assets and wanted laws in place to protect their value. There is no way to fix this without hurting homeowners now.

You will own nothing and rent everything

Fuck off. Corporations will always fuck you over and chance they get. Like hell I'd want them owning my house for the rest of my life.

never see any people who brag about being exploited with a sense of pride and accomplishment like the american

local eurofag gets upset when told not to sexualize children

remember: when we sent those people over we were not sending our best

tourist visits Anon Babble to write his fanfic

Unions are often bad for corporate profits

FTFY
You servile little cuck, a union is (You) and your co-workers. It is as bad or good as you make it, but the fact that income inequality is worse than it has been in a century while union participation is at an all-time low should tell you everything you need to know.

America has better labor regulations

Could you please elab-

Unions are often bad for society. They're a special interest group who seeks to benefit their members, often at the expense of society.

Oh wow, a live one. Can you explain what a company is and why you're only complaining about the workers grouping up to get benefits for themselves instead of the infinitely richer, more influential, and damaging people that employ them?

Don't mind him, he's a corpro cuck. We have them, it sucks. Another "temporarily inconvenienced millionaire" who believes billionaires when they take another bite out of the American middle class and say "actually we need less taxes and fewer regulations".
You probably doesn't even support clean air or water regs. You can't reason with some people.

Housing used to be much more affordable here because they were not thought of as an asset. Boomers came up with the idea of housing being an asset which it absolutely should not be

Housing being an asset predates boomers. The problem is that land used to be cheap because we were getting better with transportation. In the late 1800's, we got street cars, which allowed for street car suburbs to be built. In the 1950's, cars became affordable for everyone and highways were built, which expanded commuting distance to the city even more. However, this has not changed since.

There is no way to fix this without hurting homeowners now.

Defeatist mindset. There has been several successful reforms, especially in the sun belt cities.

NIMBYism is really more about fear of change than protecting their asset.

Fuck off. Corporations will always fuck you over and chance they get. Like hell I'd want them owning my house for the rest of my life.

Populist mindset. I'd prefer a corporation or investment firm as a landlord over a mom and pop landlord. I also don't really like the idea of all my wealth being tied up in one asset. Its not really "you will own nothing", you'll own stocks and bonds which will be more diversified and not so exposed to one neighborhood.

He's probably another FOB immigrant or first-gen immigrant trying to import the policies that made the country he GTFO of so wonderful. Humans are weird

it's tourism to tell a uerofag to stop thinking about kids

it's corporate cock sucking to tell people to stop being pedos

You probably doesn't even support clean air or water regs.

Clean Water Act: Good
National Environmental Policy Act: Bad, and has destroyed our capacity to build infrastructure.

Regulations aren't all bad or all good, they should be judged based on outcomes, not intent.

unions are bad, retard.
but then again, you are a socialist cuck, so.

I'm so glad you brought up street cars
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

sure would've been nice if they've been regulations to keep the car industry from you know digging everyone over for their own sole self-interests lol

it's tourism to not know Anon Babble is an anime website

all anime is pedobait

ok, pedo.
you could just watch anime with adult characters in it, there are plenty.

The International Union of Elevator Constructors lobbying against pre-assembly of elevators (as done in Europe) making it 5 times more expensive to build elevators in USA than in Europe is actually very bad for anyone that rents an apartment (myself included).

it's corporate cock sucking to tell people to stop being pedos

what in the flying fuck are you talking about schizo??
We're talking about unions here, try to keep your depravity on topic at least. jesus

chad cums inside of her

beta cuck gringo has to do her work

lmao

stay mad, tourist

You seem to not have read my post, here, I'll paste it again for you

Can you explain what a company is and why you're only complaining about the workers grouping up to get benefits for themselves instead of the infinitely richer, more influential, and damaging people that employ them?

You seem to be under the misapprehension that unions are somehow more capable of lobbying than the domestic companies the union workers work at, to say nothing of multi-billion dollar multinats

Quinby and Snell held that the destruction of streetcar systems was integral to a larger strategy to push the United States into automobile dependency. Most transit scholars disagree, suggesting that transit system changes were brought about by other factors; economic, social, and political factors such as unrealistic capitalization, fixed fares during inflation, changes in paving and automotive technology, the Great Depression, antitrust action, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, labor unrest, market forces including declining industries' difficulty in attracting capital, rapidly increasing traffic congestion, the Good Roads Movement, urban sprawl, tax policies favoring private vehicle ownership, taxation of fixed infrastructure, consumerism, franchise repair costs for co-located property, wide diffusion of driving skills, automatic transmission buses, and general enthusiasm for the automobile

Literally from the wikipedia article you posted.

The destruction of street car systems was really the fault of local politicians and the people, not some conspiracy by automakers.

check the reply chain, dipshit.
try to comprehend english.

Yeah I hate breathing clean air when someone else could be making money off my health.
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cancer_village
VGH

Thank God there are more intelligent minds in power to save you from your own stupidity and short-sightedness. Anything for a buck, right?

stop touching kids.

We don't get paid enough to care. I've heard yanks who move here get told to tone it down as they seem too eager.

But the clean water act also destroyed your capacity to build infrastructure you blithering fucking retard, you just have the wherewithal to not claim clean drinking water is a communist luxury

he blames unions and not lobbying (re: legalized bribery)

i.e. something illegal in pretty much every other developed country

Seems like we could fix that with one easy regulation.

You seem to be under the misapprehension that unions are somehow more capable of lobbying than the domestic companies the union workers work at, to say nothing of multi-billion dollar multinats

The thing is, they actually are in many cases.

Firefighter unions have defeated Single Staircase Reform in many states. Elevators unions are too powerful to have elevator reform. Local NIMBYs often have more political power than large development companies.

Argentina isn't a real country, broke fucking black hands typed this, Thatcher should have nuked your gay fucking village back in the 80s but because she didn't we have to see you larping as human.

It really is disgusting

Not really interested in reading pedoshit. You replied to me about pedoshit out of the blue, what interest could I possibly have in unraveling your unhinged schizophrenia?
You want to move the conversation back to unions, I'll reply. Until then keep it to yourself you freak.

Why do you love being treated like a slave? Is it some kind of role-reversal fetish thing with blacks?

Man, you guys got zero self-respect, literal NPCs cattle eating from the masters' hands.

tourist can't help but project his fantasies unto others

stop and get help, burger

Nigger youve been spamming this at every american flag who posts anything related to america-europe for years seek therapy

euro still gets angry when told not to touch kids

sad!

Firefighter unions have defeated Single Staircase Reform

Having been a volunteer EMT and firefighter I can tell you that pretty much every regulation for fires is written from lessons learned in blood. I really don't that gutting fire safety regs is the hill you wanna die on.

18 September

That's my birthday!

No it hasn't, NEPA has however
Clean Air Act is also good. NEPA is still bad, however.

Some regulations are good and have positive outcomes. Some are bad and have negative outcomes. For some reason this is a hard concept for people to grasp.

NEPA prevents us from building clean energy, it hurts the environment far more than it helps. Solar panels being prevented from being built due to environmental reviews is a ridiculous thing that happens due to NEPA. We also cannot build transmission lines, which needs to be built if we want to use more electricity and less gas, due to NEPA.

pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2025/02/small-single-stairway-apartment-buildings-have-strong-safety-record

Small Single-Stairway Apartment Buildings Have Strong Safety Record

The single staircase laws may have been necessary when written, but they no longer are.

No one cares that you're a fire fighter.

Being a firefighter doesn't make you an expert in fire safety. Thankfully some states such as Texas, Montana, Virginia understand that we are over-cautious on fire safety in many instances and some deregulation is necessary.

Solar panels being prevented from being built due to environmental reviews is a ridiculous thing that happens due to NEPA.

I think you don't understand the words you're using
Do you believe that solar panels exist without the environment? That you can do whatever you want wherever you want as long as the end result is some renewable power? If you want to say that switching from non-renewable to renewable is worth hurting the environment ins some places then by all means, I would probably agree with you, but you're just blindly attacking regulations

The majority of zoning and building regulations are to serve corporate interests in some way or another. The reasons given are usually just bullshit

زادروزت خجسته
My friend in Iran

n-n-no you

oh no

I'd be very curious how that is possible, in the specifics of the study in question, because by definition if a single stairway is consumed by fire, and if the building does not require fire escapes, you're fucked.

why are you americans so mad we refuse to be slaves like you for shekelstein?

Multi-family housing has so many other fire safety measures that it basically isn't necessary anymore.

Fears about the safety of single-stair buildings were well founded before the inclusion of modern safety features, such as sprinklers, in building codes. But in today’s world, the rules requiring two stairways in buildings taller than three floors may actually increase fire risk by discouraging the construction of new multifamily housing, which has other safety measures in addition to sprinklers, such as self-closing doors and fire-rated walls (walls that are designed and constructed to resist fire penetration for a given amount of time, such as one hour).

I'm not blindly attacking regulations, I'm attacking a specific law that is proven to have negative effects by drowning projects in legalism and paperwork. I've defended other regulations that actually protect the environment.
ifp.org/no-nepa-really-is-a-problem-for-clean-energy/

hold on a second, I missed this my first time around

zoning: bad

what exactly is the issue with swedish zoning laws?

Was referring to American zoning laws, not Swedish

Kill yourself already mang

You live in a poor shithole too buddy

yeah those seem fucked