Turning 20 in 2 months! Thank you for this video, it’s very well made and easy to follow. I love hearing life advice from people older than me, it’s quite comforting and makes the future seem less uncertain :)
Happy birthday! Folks reading this, please know that if you seek meaning, bringing a child into this world is not THE answer. It can give purpose but don't bring someone into this craziness as a tool to fix you. That's pretty selfish
I have always been a self-motovated worker. . .But employers push even those type of people to get more out of them. . . That is actually counter productive. . .
I think the real problem is management. In europe, management is stream lined and things more smoothly. People are rewarded for oganization, which increases efficiency and makes it so europeans can work less time with similar outputs. America just doesn’t manage work properly and regularly rewards poor leadership. So time is regularly wasted and you have to work more and work faster to catch up. I was a plumber is Sweeden and Florida. If i had a better tongue for languages, i would drol everything to work back in europe just because of this alone.
If Europe has better management and better efficiency then why is Europe significantly less innovative and over 10ppt less GDP growth since 2010? US has created over 50% more work output since 2010 than eurozone. I love Europe but work output and innovation are stuck in the past
@@ImTero because America's labour pool is larger and they work longer hours more efficiently. I was just saying that from a workers perspective, I was able to achieve far more with European management systems then with American management systems. It's far harder to be put in a management position in Europe then it is in America
You should add that the 10 days PTO we get in the US is for everything, including our sick days. And many hourly workers don’t get any PTO at all. You don’t work you don’t get paid. Doesn’t matter if you’re in the hospital or giving birth, you’re only protected from being fired in certain instances. You could explain FMLA and if you use it all up they are able to fire you for being sick or having a sick child. If you love to work the US is fine, but we aren’t like this bc we want to be it’s bc we have no protections.
Have you ANY idea how many beavers would have to die to accommodate our food chain? Try something like 6x more than have EVER lived!! ITS SYNTHETIC! CHEMICALS!
Europeans are not pessimistic, we're just realistic. We don't buy into that corporate, motivational bullshit. Being overly positive in Europe come across as fake and immature... delusions of grandeur really.
Very well made video Tero. A lot of the points you’ve made strongly resonate with me as I’m also a European who’s worked in both the US and the EU. But the perspective I’d like to provide is of my work experience in Japan, where I currently live. In terms of work-life balance Japan easily scores lower than even the US. Work hours are long, easily exceeding the 60-hour example you mentioned for Americans. To top it off, compliance and conformity are virtues and proactive thinking is frowned upon across corporate Japan. The US has at least results to show for - they’re the leaders of innovation the modern world depends on. Japan however, has been left in the dust. There’re positives to working in Japan of course. Job security is one. But perhaps the best in my view is their medical system. It’s streamlined, it’s affordable and also very patient oriented in a sense that doctors and nurses would go out of their way to make you feel comfortable during conversations and health checkups. Personally, I’ve managed to escape the mad rat race and am enjoying all the positives Japan has to offer. I’m also flirting with the idea of buying a property somewhere in Europe for summer holidays and eventually retiring there. In a way I hope to rediscover the beauty of the continent I’ve left long ago. I’m open to ideas, so feel free to share your thoughts and tell me know what you think.
Great great points. Some say there are four kinds of economies in the world; developed, developing, Argentina and Japan 😂 just referring to how unique that country is. I lived years in Asia but never there. Just visited and had few colleagues from there. But great insights
i grew up in italy... i totally agree with you! northern italy, the alps... there's a town no one knows about where i lived for 2yrs... imo one of the most beautiful little normal italian towns right on the water 2hrs south of rome, 2hrs north of naples. Gaeta. it's mountains and local roman tomb of a general, a large central church in the medieval part of town. you can walk along the waterfront in the evenings for Passegiata and wonderful little hotels along the beach front. mild weather.
None of the foods I buy taste normal. I’ve noticed this since Covid started. It has nothing to do with having the virus and losing taste temporarily. I haven’t had a good tasting cucumber in years or strawberries that aren’t bitter. I stopped buying frozen veggies because they are awful now. It doesn’t matter what brands I buy either. All of our foods aren’t the same. I have to agree with the video that “natural flavors” aren’t exactly what they might be. I have food and skin allergies so, I think every ingredient should be labeled including the metal content.
I'll comment on just one issue. Benefits. I work in the USA. When I started at my place of employment we had a choice to participate in various benefits. I chose to have 10% of my pay go into a deferred compensation fund (stocks) in which there was some flexibility in where to invest. I worked there for 15 years at which point I had a medical emergency that ended my ability to continue working (though I would have retired in two more years anyways). I left with over $100,000 in my deferred compensation fund. Another person who started the same day as me chose not to invest. They left with nothing. I never missed the 10% from every payday as I learned to budget accordingly. I feel bad for that other person as now that we have both been retired for five years, they have had to go back to work part time.
It sounds great, but it’s not a very guaranteed system for the average person in that country. In The Netherlands everyone gets paid every month whether you work or not, obviously you get paid a lot more when you work, but base payments for the people that don’t have a job cause they can’t physically work still get a salary ever month to make sure they can afford a living. Also this video is kind of a misleading comparison, the US is great at promoting work, but The Netherlands for example does work much more efficiently overall and is very modern in the work industry, we have almost twice the amount of agricultural production as the US for a country that fits in the US 500 times if not more.
well since capitalism is worldwide that's quite common in Europ. At least in big company. I started work at 17 and at 18 worked in a big trust(worldwide supermarket, hostels, constructions and such), i've the choice to invest 10% of my salary in stock options of the company(so probably not the flexibility you talk of). Some smaller entreprise do have them too but in another form, more like investing in your company and some happen to have a said on board decisions. Also cooperative form even if quite rare exist too: the workers owns they entreprise, a model coming from old days farmers groups and legacy of communist politics. To be back to your comment there is also a downfall to that: if the company perish or loose benefits in any way stocks will go down and years of 10% can be flush away. Not forgetting also that companies use that system just to lower the money they had to pay (+ less taxes on it) since a succeeding company will have stocks growing and the percent paid in stocks are less than a money amount for the business leaders. Less taxes is less money to everyone as taxes are nation wide invested for everyone as they're (or ought to) used for the well being, infrastucture for every citizens and such(ie: healthcare). I'm sure there's a lot of pros on working in USA but just think if you've the choice to spent more time with your new born or young child, having time for yourself who don't get you money, having a safe net when you got accident in life(not only speaking of health bc sh1t happen sometimes) and get more money by working more what would you choose? Most of the pros for USA work system i've heard in this video seem to apply to good job well paid. But i assume that, like everywhere, everyone not having a good job, have get high qualifications in years of studies that could mean exhausting dumb job. And there the pros won't apply much if you work a non qualified work where you can be easily fired and replaced. That's part the purpose of high penalities for firing people: protect and give safety to the lower and middle class. Sure perfect system doesnt exist and pros/cons are everywhere. I'll add to finish that i'm not really sure about the more innovative part being only work related. Innovation can pop in less stressful and not be related only to the time at work, as a huge country USA can invest more and has a nation wide market bigger than any european country. Internet(at least the idea and first use of something like it as first network process) or chip card being created in France then plainly developped as the use we have now by north american industries. Not to mention the imperialist industrial power of USA and "diplomatic" or less diplomatic influence in the world(such as big money+dollar power and politic interferences who were part of the US success business abroad in the 90).
People complain about things they doing like about a product. Beer. People didn't like that it Was. Hazy so they put fluids from fish to clear it up. Look it up
My coffee taste different. I drink Dunkin Donuts . Years ago it taste so good. I must admit, I'm 75 and I place this lack of flavor due to my age. Does anyone have the same problem who aren't a senior?
Look at average calories consumed per day for each country. It’s not that Europeans walk or move more, it’s that some countries, including the US eat more. As to the whole losing calories while in X location, you can put that down to exploring and being out all day because otherwise what would be the point in going
When my sister came back from japan she said the 7-11s there served reall unprocessed food and even the vending had refrigerated fresh food prepared everyday. Genuinely broke me realising how its not normal how we eat here in the states
My sister explained to me that the RASPBERRY FLAVOR come from the beavers lions so whenever i went with sister to get a SLUSHIE i always ask a LARGE BEAVER LION JUICE MMMMMMM
If I tried home birth with either I would be dead. I had 65 hours labor with first 56 with second. Never dilated past 4 with either. C-section with both.
German midwife here and I've given birth in a birth centre and at home and would always always do it again. From all my experiences from the delivery ward in a hospital I would have never ever chosen to deliver mine in a hospital. Most of the times it is so clinical, standardised, medicalised, sterile, unnatural, in supine positions, in forced positions, women are not free to choose what they want, water births are being refused, medications are being given way too fast, C-Sections are being used WAY too fast. The complete opposite is happening outside of the hospital. ❤
