Robby Soave and Amber Duke compare European and American economies. Director of Photography: Alex Rosen Producer: Veronica Riccobene Editor: Chris Sowick Illustration: Fox Network
I love how they liked to look down on others and think as if they are educated after reading propaganda book by marx. While literally never spend a single day to read proper article by any real economist. They don't even understand supply and demand.
@@Tesprion the countrary, they understand it very well, to the point where they can point out the market playing on these and modify artificially these to increase profit. Among other things.
@@Komrad_Cybersyn they don't, that's why their societies always have economic issues. They don't even know what is usual profit margin and doesn't understand that socialism/communism wouldn't solve inherent issue to lack of supplies
Even if the song wasn't blatantly lying...where's the subtlety? Where's the nuance? Classic Simpsons worked because even though it was a satire of America, it wasn't telling you, "Hey look, we're making fun of America!"
If you watched or even looked up the episode this entire scene is satire and the entire episode is just making fun of tipping culture in general. This song is a product of Homer's mental break down and he ends up getting beaten up for trying to bring it back home.
@@WizeGuyz2023 I'll ask his questions again since you didn't read them. "Where's the subtlety? Where's the nuance?" This scene is about as subtle as a hammer to the back.
My EU shithole country just passed a new property tax. So of 10.000 in rent I collect for one house: I pay 2k in VAT, 3k in property tax., and 2.5k in income tax. 75% tax is how "free" free healthcare is.
They love cherry picking the "good aspects" but not taking into account how much in taxes, wait time and rationing their healthcare does. Also helps when you have a country that is your defense force
It is a much bigger problem. The Simpsons used to be an amazingly clever and hysterical program, always a joy to watch. Then they had a change of producers somewhere around Season 8 and it has been dumbed-down, not funny ever since.
in the golden era they certainly had a point of view politically, but it was done in such a subtle way that it's still enjoyable and even persuasive sometimes. It is really sad to see what the show has become.
I used to love the Simpsons and they've always had a liberal bent. Now they are just an unfunny commercial for the DNC. They did a full music number with Robert Reich at some point. That guy is just terrible. It made me realize that the Simpsons was truly dead.
The voice actors (especially Harry Shearer and Julie Kavner) are starting to get old and don't have as much "character" to their voices as they once did.
@@djm5687 They're just really really really big paychecks now. And they also know the characters aren't funny- and they don't even know the stuff the writers write anymore, since they're just terrible Family Guy rejected jokes.
Europe is a pretty bad example of tipping culture contrast, being where the culture of gratuity we know today comes from. Japan however, could have made for a funny tipping culture scene. Homer could have offered a tip and offended a business owner.
Exactly. On my first trip to Japan, I asked the bellhop taking me to my room if tipping was customary. His English was poor and my Japanese was non-existent, but I had actually embarrassed him. He was shocked at my question. By contrast, at a hotel in Frankfurt, they charged me a 10% service charge, and even a charge on parking which was included with room - the parking was included, the "service charge" for the fully automated parking garage was not included.
@@1krani Carlin was just doing his version of Lenny Bruce. Even Mel Brooks does that kind of social-political humor for most of a century, he is just not on drugs and us better at it.
My ex was a server. She made more money in 3 days than I did all week. She only had to claim tips to about 10% of her sales to keep the IRS happy which further reduced her taxes. Having spent 10 years in the restaurant industry (BOH), my experience was always that the ones complaining about money were the worst servers.
Last time I lived in Germany (3 years ago) I had to pay for healthcare and medication. But maybe I was just stupid and didn't knew where to go to get it for free 🤷
@DieterDuplak314 If you understood how money works and freedom works then you'd get why the money belongs in your pocket and not everyone elses...all on the off chance you get sick and don't die one of the many other ways people die besides being old and sick. Then you just spend all your life working just to pay into a system you never even used :D Really fair, right.
@@MilwaukeeF40C No one is entitled to anyone labor. I'm just mocking the Simpsons for pretending you would get free healthcare in Europe. You don't. That's bullshit.
Different post WW2 nations adopted different health systems. Japan and Germany just have compulsory insurance. France has it in the taxes and medical staff are civil service. Britain has the NHS and private pay (just like schools). NHS was originally for charity cases and grew to standard care as prices grew and the NHS grew too as the large number of immigrants came as the British Empire started to be dismantled. They needed NHS coverage to avoid having 3rd world pandemics spread again, or very unsafe childbirth. Labour Government after WW2 kept the war model. The US kept the employer health insurance model they had in WW2. Industry had wage caps 1942 to 1945 to keep them from poaching employees from other defense industries. So employers started adding perks like health insurance to poach or keep employees...that stuck.
20 years ago, serving / bartending less than 30 hours a week during college and the year after I graduated - I made more annually than I did the first 6 or so years of actually using my professional degree in my chosen field. I actually kept on bartending on Fridays and Saturdays for the first 2-3 years of my 'career' because it nearly doubled my income.
@@Praecantetia I remember marveling about how good the writing was on the original Futurama seasons and how the best jokes work in any language… like the one where Bender complains about a woman who accused him of stealing her purse: he denies it but she just keeps coming at him… so he hit her with this purse he “found.” XD They need to fire everyone and pay whatever it takes to get the old writing staff back… including Conan.
Ain't that the truth. You get the same service out of restaurants in France and Italy when they mysteriously close for spells of days or a week at a time with seemingly no consequences to their bottom line. At least when they're closed on any given day they're simply...not serving you, instead of not serving you with a bonus shi++y attitude.
I grew up bilingually in Germany and the US. I used to think that Germany, and its socialist policies were the way to go. Boy was I wrong. Everything about this place is depressing, and the people have a misplaced sense of superiority about it all. Everything he touched on is spot on. I would also add, that service quality in Europe is horrible. I wonder if tipping is an incentive for better service. The only nice thing about Germany is renting: You get much more control over your unit. You can drill holes, remodel the kitchen if you wanted to etc.
Also East German cities tend to have much better public transportation. Man, it's a lot more comfortable to live in a place with better Public Transport than just driving.
I have added cheap accessories to apartments. But why the fck would you remodel something that is not yours? Europeans have no concept of personal investing and equity.
1) People act as if tipping is mandatory and people don't have the option not to tip. 2) This has been a problem for the past thirty years. Remember seeing all those tipping jars that said, "Tipping is not a city in China".
I was expecting this to be much ado about a throwaway gag. But then the clip just kept going! Hey Simpsons, how about a song about the income disparity between voice actors and animators.
You know the song is a parody of 'Planet of the Bass' from last year, which is itself a parody of Eurodance culture right? (Just incase people didn't understand why the song is deliberately bad). Anyway, I'm Scottish, been to America many times (and going again in September) but the tipping culture and the iPad screens being shoved in your face for us is horrendous and it's by far the biggest issue most Europeans have with visiting the US. We tip here in restaurants when we have a sit down meal or if you get food delivered, but the expectation to tip bartenders after each drink, and workers who work at tills and just hand you food is something that none of us can understand and something that doesn't happen here (yet, at least). Again, I know it's your culture and it's not a dig, it's just a big shock when you first encounter it. Also, we have those 10% service charges too, but they're not legal by law and if you ask for them to be removed, the restaurant has to comply. Half the people pay them and don't leave a tip for the staff, the other half get them removed and leave cash for the staff.
You do know there is a solution to stop feeling offended, yes? Stop visiting. There are loads of other nations to go to that could be more to your tastes. Leave American culture be, and explore other ones instead.
It's still foreign to Americans, too, and most of us hate it. I grew up exactly the same, you tip for service in a sit-down restaurant or for food delivered, nothing else. Pretty sure some corporate drones on Wall Street loved the idea, which raised stock prices of the original implementers, whoever they were, so a bunch of other companies jumped on board. I never do it at the newer locations, only the same kinds of places and delivery as before.
There's a lot of jokes that could have been made. Marge could have done tip math in her head, then Lisa corrects her, then Bart says tips are for losers, then Homer confuses tip for napkin or something. Yeah, there's plenty of potential in there. Not sure why they stop the comedy to make a statement.
@evlo8059 Depends on where you are. Some places pay their people $15+ a hour, while some places straight up won’t let their people take a tip. But others pay way less and expect customers to make up the difference. But many workers like tips as they can walk away with $200+ In one night from tips alone. I had a friend at uni who walked away with $500 in one night (plus his normal wage)
@MilwaukeeF40C That is true too but many of the pos systems need you to ok the price of walk-in/walk-out places and you’d see it. And even then if a place did that to generic workers that worker won’t be going back.
A valid question. Americans (US and Canada) have lost the original meaning of "liberal". It drifted to left of center and, as well, conservative doesn't mean what it meant in France, Germany or Britain. Classic definition of Liberal is opposed to socialism (Left or Right) and communism, and favors private property rights for commoners, low taxes, modest regulation, free trade... However after Roosevelt in 1932, "Liberal" started taking on a new meaning. It was a code word to cover up socialist leanings and big government programs in the New Deal. Because Russia, Italy and Germany had gone socialist in the 20s and 30s...the word had a bad taste....so Liberal was substituted. New Speak.
@@Incomudro1963 just as long as we remember it isn't a line it is a circle. The 20th century taught us that far left and far right circled around to meet each other in being police states. You must have a police state to make people behave contrary to their human nature. Once you achieve it, you must maintain it, even if it becomes a new nature (as Marx and Mussolini imagined) the police class and government officials will never give up that power and retire.
What? No it doesn't. Tips should be in cash. Nobody actually reports their tips. I get why people don't like tipping, but it works fantastically in a cash economy.
@@generalmeanguy8902 Not true. Even outside the major cities, servers are free to behave as they wish as long as they don't go overboard because they will get their full pay no matter what.
@@starventure That was the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Why should there be a difference between the city and outside the city? The owner can fire bad staff, they are not free to behave as they wish. There are job descriptions that employees must follow.
I immigrated to the US 32yrs ago and I've had the 'tipping conversation' with hundreds of Americans. It seems every American is 100% sure they know when, where, and how much to tip...but, every single American seems to have different rules for tipping. Ultimately, every conversation ends with the same requirement - the consumer needs to know intimate employment/ownership details of the person being tipped. It's an insane system. Absolutely bonkers. God bless America. 😂
You don't tip the owner. You tip as you like for any itinerant server. I do not typically tip counter service...since I'm the table server and that tip would be pooled anyway, so the To Insure Prompt Service has no more meaning. Tipping in the US was frowned upon till 1918 as an old noble system of bribing for better service. Prohibition caused mass waiter layoffs in NYC and other big cities. Waiters offered to work for free to just live on tips. An abusive system of floating commission sales began.
These two are more my view point. Not to take anything away from Rising, but you give me current topics peppered with pop culture comedy, I'm in, heyoooooooo!
There is no free health care in Europe. You pay through your taxes. Living in Germany, I paid 650 euros (about US$800) per month for a family of four, automatically deducted from my paycheck.
Regarding the "free" healthcare, just last night I accompanied a friend to the emergency room. We got there at 6PM and after 5 hours of waiting, we got his test results. The doctor wanted to internalize him but the hospital had no rooms available, so I had no choice but to take him home. Hopefully he has better luck getting some "free healthcare" somewhere else today.
I don't know if I'd want to abandon the tipping system if I were a server. They're talking about eliminating pay disparities between the front and back of house. Here's the thing, as a server, I averaged much more hourly than back of house.
I live in Hungary, in fancier restaurants you should tip 10%, and a lot of bars use card-reading tools originally designed for festival food trucks, so in several pubs if you go to the bar, to buy a beer and take it with yourself to your table, the touchscreen also ask you whether you want to tip.
The Simpsons song forgot to mention that those workers that get paid a "living wage" also have their income heavily taxed in order to pay for the "free" health care.
"Healthcare is free" meanwhile everyone gets 250-500€ deducted from their monthly paycheck (as % of your wage) and everyone who makes more than 100k/year is better off opting out of public healthcare and going private.
Tipping is the only moral form price discrimination. The rich people decide to pay extra for their service and the poor people get lower prices, no tipping means higher prices for poor people.
Selective praise for Europe ; they have a 12-14 week elective abortion cutoff , after that you usually need 1 or more doctors to sign off , depending on the country . In Mississippi that might be the norm but not in most of the US .
As a Swede, I love my "free" healthcare, it only costs thousands of dollars each month in taxes... In addition to the actual PRICE, because it's not actually free. That is, if you get any care at all before it's too late.
In Crete, Greece you have to show your Covid card to enter into businesses, a lot of businesses required you to call in to setup appointments instead of doing walking as well. I got a tattoo via that way.
The song contradicts itself within 25 seconds of starting: 🎵Europe king and here is why 🎵Only pay for what you buy 🎵Sir, can't you see 🎵Our healthcare is free Paraphrasing Lily Tang: "Can you guarantee I won't have to pay taxes for healthcare if I don't want to buy it? No? Then this song is over."
The EU had been having farmers and tractors block the streets and public buildings as they are not treating their people well. Not exactly a place you want to become more like.
I don't live in DC anymore, but was there when the automatic service charge was systematically tacked on to restaurant bills. Yes, it definitely altered my behavior: that's the straw that broke the camel's back, I stopped tipping entirely and made a conscious effort of eating out way less.
I remember in college taking an electrical engineering class. We learned about circuits and how any change one place can destroy another place. Then i took my first economic class and AGAIN i learned *EVERYTHING HAS A BALANCED CAUSE AND EFFECT.* so having seen this before this made perfect sense. I think the reason why so many liberal students can't grasp this concept is because they don't take REAL classes that show how this principle exist in EVERYTHING. Instead they take theoretical classes that are based on feelings and wishing. The government can't interfere with free markets without breaking them and causing more damage than good.
1. Healthcare is not "free" 2. A "living wage" can mean different things to different people 3. Working for tips encourages employees to provide better service
1: there was a point in time where tipping was frowned upon in the US as it was seen as a way for the rich to get better service than anyone else, preferential even. 2: typically speaking Americans are paid better for the same work compared to europeans. The issue is that everything costs more in the US largely due to marketing, regulation, and R&D. 3: nationalized healthcare is not free. Nothing is. Additionally the service is abysmal by comparison. 4: good front of house staff can make hundreds a day in tips. Back of house staff are stuck with a flat rate despite doing more work. God forbid you are the dishwasher.
4:08 servers are paid $2.13 an hour. Not $5 unless they have a sweet deal. Think about that the next time you camp on ( stay for a long time) on a waiter’s table. They might have only 3-4 tables that are sat in rotation during their shift. That means they only have 3-4 chances to make a tip at any time. If you sit forever you take them out of rotation and give them one less chance at a tip. The other folks hunting tips that never used to get a chance at one are just trying to make more money. Their company bought a premade program and they didn’t disable the tip option to try to lure folks to work for the less than living wage that they pay even to usually untipped workers.
We should copy Sweden's social security reforms. They were able to solve the issue our social security is running into by reforms and partial privatization.
Go ahead and remove tipping culture from servers at a steakhouse, they’d explode at the lost income if they went to a flat wage. Get rid of sales commission and car salesmen would freak out. Get rid of private charity and the tax write offs and make the government handle all of it? That would be horrific as well.
Tipping is still customary in Europe, and now many countries have built-in service fees as well. And we all know about "free" healthcare and just how "free" it is. Everybody likes pointing out the few places where it works, never when it doesn't. Not that I embrace American healthcare either, but it's not like it's great here in Europe either.
My favorite videos are the ones showing people bicycling around tiny places like Amsterdam and scolding Americans because they need cars to get around.
Its not even true...tipping exists in most of the Northern European countries (e.g. UK, Netherlands, Germany). UK at least also has a minimum wage. That's true that tipping doesnt exist in other countries in Europe...and the service is correspondingly terrible. The idea, also that those various poor parts of the Mediterranean States are living well on a "living wage"...half of them can't get jobs.
Ask most waiters here in the US if they'd rather be paid a "living wage" (whatever that is) or make money from tips? A good waiter makes far more money from tips.
