As a german i've been in a union for almost 2 decades ... that's pretty normal here ... we're just annoying "space Karen" (E. Musk) here in germany with our unions 😂

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Team up!

Bad law, due to the fact of less trade unions. You know, those socialists. 😅

@anglosaxon5874 and most of those protection laws in other countries are considered as human rights. And it works. There is hardly any other country in the world, without mandatory paid vacation or (paid) maternity leave before the birth.

@@Be-Es---___ Thats wrong. Unions here in europe (i'm german) are contributing to the same problem thats described in the video. They work in favor of those, who have established their position and are in a job. But all those protections that unions are fighting and standing for, are at the same time making it harder and harder to get into a good job. Its a zero-sum game between the people inside and outside of jobs. Unions help the ones inside and the youth starts outside.

@@lifth13 There are good and bad things about unions, but in my opinion, they hurt the employer and the country by making the market less dynamic and less productive. In my job, there are several unions, none of those have helped me when i asked, they are a bit like a mafia.

​@@mbwahahaAll jobs have unions here in Norway and we have higher gdp per capita and higher human development then the usa, so yes it works here because ppl and workplaces dont hate Unions. Its the mindset and culture thats the problem in the US.

You are absolutely right. The only difference is that on the law side, there is some buffer. But that is melting away.

100% However, Europeans I feel are more open to what works being an option. IMO, too much power and money is being concentrated in too few and that's how empires fall. People get desperate and do desperate things, like climb in an overloaded boat, or join a group fighting for something because they are angry and desperate. Spread the wealth.. That mean clothes and chocolate and coffee and all the other things should be slavery free and everyone paid a fair wage.. slavery so stockholders can have bigger dividends.. WTF are we doing?

yes, its happening, esp in health sector for decades, profiting while not giving service back whle clinic ceo make millions on back of mandatory health insurance money and on us nurses. if people do not defend while free market and cooperate capitalism exploit people, we will face world war 3 in europe, europeans do not joke, if you put pressure on us, we defend and history books show how we do it.

it's not EU has strict employment laws and vacation, basic benefits like insurance are embedded in LAW. This is totally absent in USA. The employment law in USA is a joke (and a bad one).

​@@dudoklasovity2093agree 💯. In most European countries, the taxes are progressive, education is free/affordable, healthcare is for everybody. All focus on social (not socialism, bc that's something else!) societies.

You are only as old as you feel 🙂

@@Spiklething ❤️

thank you very much, that's awesome

Yeah, it's worthwhile keeping in mind that people can have all kinds of reasons for laughing. When listening to Comedians people often seem to have difficulty when it gets more serious and so just keep laughing when it might not be appropriate. Sometimes it's just reliefed laughter that somebody has finally said "it".

@@burningsheep4473 Very true.

uhm... its not much different here. lower income than our parents, rising house prices and so on

I would be concerned, because when America collapses in 10 years, it will take the world down with it.

It's the same here. The only difference is that it happens slower due to our social systems. But it still happens because that's simply how capitalism works if it's not constrained enough.

EU ain't any better mate, house prices are pretty high even in Europe and the UK is in pretty much the same boat as the US at least in London.

True... the US are the perfect example for what happens if capitalisim stays unregulated for too long... EU has its own problems thou... ironcially overregulation of pretty much everything

It's sad people on the right don't know that a spoonful of socialism is what they need and actually want.

You said it very well.

Doesn't Scotland have a greater inequality of access to Uni than England? Scotland also runs a substantially higher deficit than the rest of the UK so you can argue Scotland's free education is reliant on English taxpayers willingness to pay for it

@@Mike-lb1hx Sting ... I'm from England, but I can guess the SNP response would be, then let us leave, we can then join the EU and we will be taking the North Sea oil with us and you can move your Nueclear Sub base from our land ... Thank you very much.

​@@daviddowsett1658Great answer 😂 I'm sure the EU would be happy to welcome them

@@Mike-lb1hx 100% true and deliberately overlooked.

I certainly do.. It's a reaction video, after all.

He's a citizen of his bubble and he never leaves.

​​@@davidmalarkey1302 yet you continue to watch. Most people live in a bubble.

You can support free market and not want the economy dictate policies.

@@jakubosiejewski9859 Not without an absolute ban on lobbying in any form and an absolute ban on additional income or part-time jobs for politicians... In addition, your electoral system would have to be fundamentally reformed because it is undemocratically opaque and very easy to manipulate

This is a sad indictment of American society today.America is of the most divided and decisive countries on the planet. The average American is amongst the most willfully ignorant people on the planet. Americans taxes fund the military and that's it nothing to benefit American citizens. The election in November could see the end of democracy and America become a dictatorship. So much for the land of the free.

💰Money is power and greed is human. In a 100% free market economy, power will always go to where the money is and the rich will grab more and more of it. That is why a market economy must be regulated at least a little by the state in order to prevent a constant redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top. Unregulated, free capitalism inevitably turns into predatory capitalism through greed and hopefully nobody believes in the so-called „trickle-down-effect“ anymore. This was an outright lie to keep the masses quiet.

I think you'd have to be a capitalist to be wanting that money in the first place. You don't turn capitalist only when you surpass a certain threshold.

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Easy solution. People should stop buying in those expensive parts of town and chose something else. Here, where I live properties went up some 300-600%+ (South Athens, Greece) in the past few years, just because they are building this new mega project, the Athens Riviera park. If we sell our house now, we can buy a nice-sized island. You know? We tried selling it. There are no buyers. The prices are all fake.

@@alanpotter8680 Like many Greeks, I too live on a small island. We keep losing too many families.

Also german I think the audience laugh because its not funny but to counter the desperation and the dead inside them.

Also German here, I laugh when watching “extra3”, “heute show” and “die anstalt”. Laughing sometimes helps to bear the bitter truth

And that is why I keep telling these whiney EU fellows of mine that we are nowhere near to what's happening in the US. When I was working for a company they didn't let me work overtime, even though I could from time to time. No. They made sure I left work on time, otherwise they have to pay me or be fined thousands of euros (if caught). Now that I own my business, I'm required by law to send my monthly employment plan for each of my employers to the employment office/agency and they DO check on workers every now and then.

Political cabaret is also very popular in Germany. We have some really good TV shows and people watch them regularly. If that's the format in which you can say these things and get attention, why not?

@@nonamegirl9368 The problem isn't the format itself. The problem is that you need the format for people to pay attention. Political cabaret in Europe had a different tradition/role and was a way to criticize the ruling class indirectly through humour without repercussions. It's the evolution of the jester. What Ryan said was right tho. You NEED to pack political messages with humour/entertainment for them to get traction in large parts of American society. This marriage of the entertainment industry with politics isn't the same as political cabaret. The worst aspects of it brought us characters like Donald Trump.

They laughed because it is an uncomfortable subject and ANY levity is doubly welcome to alleviate that discomfort. I sincerely doubt that most of them "got the joke".

@@sharonmartin4036 i think its fair to say that if a guy from europe whos third language is english, has no university degree and 0 interest in fashion got the joke, then highly educated people who get to sit at ted talks definitely got the joke

@@VV33Dy You make a very good point, however I am Scottish/English, and I heard both the tone of the laughter and the relatively poor quantity of the laughter, and I still stand by what I said. You may be right but I just don't think they all got it.

@@sharonmartin4036 oh wow, what a measured response. chapeau

@@VV33Dy 🙂🎩

Also, great video. Wouldn't have minded to watch the entire 50 min reaction 😎

The most absurd part are that USA do not need to invent the deep dish here. They can just pick a nation, may I recommend a Scandinavian one, and copy their entire system and then get ALL citizens covered WHILE saving a huge sum of money. No doubt that would mean that a lot of sales persons in drug companies would be laid of together with a lot of the administration in health insurance companies but they all have qualifications other industries can use and thus turn these unproductive "leech" jobs to someone that actually add value to USA and it´s GDP. Same with the lack of transition to an emission free energy production and usage. Also here USA seem stuck in the 60´s BOTH US parties support subsidising fossil fuels in USA thus effectively preventing a free market making it possible for the otherwise cheaper emission free solutions, like windmills, to become a true part of a transitioning. US media normally loves to bring articles about the highest and fastest etc. But I have yet to met an American that have heard of the worlds largest transition project away from fossil/nuclear fuel, the "North Sea Summit Agreement" That were signed in Jan. 2023 and will transition 220 (!) million Europeans to emission free energy. It will be done with offshore windmill parks in the North Sea. On top, inside same project, the worlds largest green hydrogen production. Hydrogen are made of electricity and water and when burned it only emits.....wait for it......water! A small one digit percentage of the hydrogen will be used to ensure emission free energy when the wind does not blow while rest will be sold on the open market for cars/trucks/trains/ships AND planes. Both the 4 stroke liquid hydrogen engine works as a gasoline one and the hydrogen jet engine have been in use for decades, just not for planes. NOTHING but US politicians and their fossil fuel subsidising prevents USA from making a simple scaled copy/paste of this project since USA have same optimal conditions for offshore windmill parks. Our atmospheric carbon content SHOULD be 220 PPM and now have passed insane 420 PPM. WE are OUT OF TIME: Darwin said survival of the fittest! In USA that have been perceived as the "strongest" but that were not at all what he meant. He meant survival of the most adaptable. USA are not adapting to our scientific knowledge. It have never been a winning strategy to put your head in the sand when your house (our planet) are on fire!

£22.50 a week…wtf were you doing for that pittance? You sure you didn’t mean £22.50 a day?

@@dougm659 i was working as a apprentice joiner in a factory making windows and doors for 3 years then went on to be a plasterers apprentice making £50 a week and was a plasterer for 25 years now im a hgv driver making £350 a day

They get labelled “socialist” and that gets conflated with “communist”.

uhm ... Germany here. None of us here would agree on your statement that social democracy were a form of socialism. We define it still as capitalism, but the form where capitalism is a bit more 'tamed' and not out of control. Germany defines her model as 'Ordoliberalism'. There are huge differences between both concepts so I felt this point needed to be made. ;-)