As an American, thank you for teaching me.

The Baltics are in order alphabetically, Estonia, Latvia, then Lithuania

and also Russia was cut out for some reason.

@@FranzFerdinand55 Russia is not a country, it is a prison camp.

Cool story.@@SundraTanakoh

And they finally made a good move after canceling every other show/movie on Max

They won't really, last full episode didn't even break 500k views (as of writing this). I'm not complaining tho, but a vast majority of the countries that get these episodes have a relatively small English speaking population.

​​​@@PedroBoteonthe videos with about 30 minutes are doing much better tho. 2, 4, 5, 9 Million views. They just need to understand what works better. Maybe it is not just about money. Maybe it is about taking a stand and putting the message out there.

​@@FredEPLk the videos with proper titles are more searchable and eye catching. This video looks like someone's online video archive.

Whole new revenue? I don't know if that's the case, I am just finally about to cancel my HBO subscription which I had only because of this show :D

You must be new to LWT :) They do this A LOT

Yeah, I'm Lithuanian and thought oh its joke again 😂

As a Ukrainian in the US I know Geography lmao

Meanwhile all the Estonians watching this be like 👿

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You forgot the most important detail: Those people behave the same way even if it ALSO benefits them, simply because of the part where it benefits people they don't like.

Why should I care about you?

@@civilengineer3349 Actually, why should anyone care about you, specifically, your worthless ego and your equally worthless opinion?

Except the military, of course.

Because it's the human thing to do? Because we are stronger together? Because only through working together can we create a brighter future.@@civilengineer3349

Ah yes, Slovenia, a country that millions of people migrate to for a better life each year, oh wait that'd be a America

​@civilengineer3349 many years of hollywood propaganda about the "american dream". That dream is dead and honestly i would much rather move to Slovenia 😂

@@Thesmutcher which Hollywood movie in particular?

@@civilengineer3349well… in Italy it is almost free (tuition is based on wealth and even if you are a billionaire you don’t spend more that 3k euros per year and most people spend around 1k) and we do have plenty immigrants (also… we have free healthcare as well 😂)

@@stefanovettor6507 Italy is poor compared to the USA

And with no recourse for anyone caught in it - enforced by the government.

the real problem is interest guys that why GOD said to us in the holy Quran 2:276. Those who devour interest do not rise except as rises one whom Satan has smitten with insanity. That is because they say: ‘Trade also is like interest;’ whereas Allah has made trade lawful and made interest unlawful. So he to whom an admonition comes from his Lord and he desists, then will that which he received in the past be his; and his affair is with Allah. And those who revert to it, they are the inmates of the Fire; therein shall they abide. 2:277. Allah abolishes interest and causes charity to increase. And Allah loves not anyone who is a confirmed disbeliever and an arch-sinner. 2:278. Surely, those who believe and do good deeds and observe Prayer and pay the Zakat shall have their reward from their Lord, and no fear shall come on them, nor shall they grieve. 2:279. O ye who believe! fear Allah and relinquish what remains of interest, if you are believers. 2:280. But if you do it not, then beware of war from Allah and His Messenger; and if you repent, then you shall have your original sums; thus you shall not wrong, nor shall you be wronged. 2:281. And if any debtor be in straitened circumstances, then grant him respite till a time of ease. And that you remit it as charity shall be better for you, if only you knew. 2:282. And fear the day when you shall be made to return to Allah; then shall every soul be paid in full what it has earned; and they shall not be wronged. Islam forbids interest (Riba), both receiving and paying it

Money is from the govt and the loan is serviced by private companies aka collectors. The rates are not criminal but people are stupid and ignorant about the subject

I work in loan servicing and you'd be surprised how many people do not read or don't ask questions.

@@blazinex seriously, in most other countries, this entire setup, including the interest rates, would be investigated, shut down and the company CEOs would be jailed for years... that's how grotesquely criminal it is. you can't do anything even remotely similar in Brazil: debt "enslavement" for decades with such a slow reduction in the premium balance?? the US allows government loans to be administered by mafia-style criminal enterprises.

Lol sounds like a record playing backwards❤

​@@andypanda4756 So basically, ".alehoM, tneivaN, tenleN"

or celebrity childrens names. same thing i guess.

Americans when they hear a non-European name

A demon that isn't very efficient, by the sound of things.

it's not just Europe, this entire scheme would be illegal in Brazil as well...

Well, the UK students are enjoying similar stuff for a decade or more now.

@@mokkoristaDifference is that UK students are guaranteed to have all their student debt forgiven after a set amount of time (I think it is 15-20 years?). In that way, it is more similar to a tax on the highly educated - Though, it is of course a regressive tax since people from rich families can avoid accruing debt and, therefore, end up paying less.

french here : this is very much coming to us, maybe not that bad, but it is definitly around the corner 😬

​@@mokkorista UK student loans are NOTHING compared to the American system. You only repay with earnings above a certain amount. Most debts are forgiven anyway after a certain time period. In America, you CANNOT escape student debt, even via bankruptcy.

John did also talk about Citi Zēni eurovision song briefly 😂

same

yep same it's paying for apartment I live in while i study.

The UK student loan interest is 7.7% for a lot of people. And 6.25% for everyone else. I'll be 65 before I pay it off

Why should it be illegal? Student loans are high in demand, so interest rates will reflect that

​@@civilengineer3349 education shouldnt be so expensive that only the rich can afford it

In Finland the interest is the 12 month Euribor, so 3-4%

Probably not. I think the example is an annuity loan. Then you pay regularly the same amount of money during a certain period. The ratio of rent and redemption shifts over that period. You start with paying lot of rent and little redemption. And in the end it’s the other way around. With inflation the real amount of money you pay decreases. This method is often used for mortgages, so people in your country can have this type of mortgage.

Indeed! Last Week Tonight, along with some of the other 'Late Night' shows, is my antidote to existential dread, reminding me that hey, COMPARATIVELY, things are pretty good here! :D

I didn't know I lived in a State-run Prison camp, until I left the U.S. for a job in Asia. In America they got us on lockdown and impovershed but keep telling us we are the richest nation in the world, as we gun each other down in the streets. I have so much more freedom after leaving the U.S.. Americans talk about freedom so much, to distract from the fact that they have very little.

Since Europe is not a country, it still depends on the exact country in Europe you live in when you want to compare stuff.

I'm American and moved to Finland in 2019. I'm so happy I don't live in that dumpster fire anymore but I feel so guilty about the people I love who still live there.

@@Meskarune In the Netherlands there are now more Americans coming to live in our country than the other way around.

They're quite in touch with their donors.

They're in touch with their voters, given that most Americans don't bother voting

why? america was built off of slavery, direct private slavery was only "abolished" shortly before ww2, and since then the constitutional amendment #13 has kept a legal route to turn people into slaves, drugs have been funneled into neighborhoods (from freebase coke, to heroin, to oxy clinics), the united states has continued to throw up military bass after military bass in other counties like ww2 never ended (this isnt normal and shouldnt be treated as normal), the cold war was literally a propaganda war and the americans created a literal thought police law to remove what they deemed as "communists" from government, a number of universities actually started life as slave plantations, there is a method to create "adjunct professors" so people can specifically not pay profs properly for teaching university students after they finish uni turning people with doctorates into wage slaves with 3-4 jobs bc they wanted to research physics, redlining and all that good shit in the giving minorities extra hard times, did you really think that america could have possibly acted any other way?

Or how bought the vast majority of congress is.

They are from the States, no one cares, and they are destroying themselves.

This goes for almost everyone living in west Europe.

Bugger CSN with a rusty pickfork, though

Same here! I'm glad to be born into a socialist country, but I feel so bad for US citizens not born into wealthy families. They don't stand a chance in this country. Yet, at the same time, I see patterns forming in France where our shitty president tries hard to copy US agendas...

Living in demark 28 years good riddence usa.

​@titanuranus3095 Why, CSN is great. Maybe a little low, but the interest rates are fantastic and everyone can get it.

Just another big time scam in a country built upon perpetual scams. Good luck everyone.

Stupid population is easier to rule.

you should read the history of what the country has done, the whole thing is just built on slavery and through not properly dealing with it at the time, making people just think slavery is ok now because it pays a little better than it used to, even if it doesnt after accounting for interest. America has a hidden slave issue, hiding behind a gaslight workforce

Well... They're far-right. People that conservative enjoy punishing people just for the hell of it, let alone if they have an excuse.

@@FelisImpurrator it's not a right/left question. Higher education costs a lot, you have to pay for it everywhere in the world. Even in countries where the higher education is "free" - in those places you pay indirectly for it in the form of income tax. In Denmark for example, everyone have to pay around 44% income tax, that's how the state can provide free higher education for their citizes.

I absolutely loved the little hysterical laugh! Someone really loved the joke lol

And it was great 😁

I do like the bit where he mentioned that "you're watching the show in three minute chunks" though.

​@@perrodetokiowas it?

@@kostajovanovic3711 Yes. Yes it was 🤠

@@perrodetokio oh

Ikr, and not have to watch a wonky pirated upload

Can we stop with "ty for full eps"? iI's been five weeks already.

Now, we wait for full episodes from previous seasons.

I left USA too. Now I live in Finland. It's amazing to see society, economy, and government work so much better.

the real problem is interest guys that why GOD said to us in the holy Quran 2:276. Those who devour interest do not rise except as rises one whom Satan has smitten with insanity. That is because they say: ‘Trade also is like interest;’ whereas Allah has made trade lawful and made interest unlawful. So he to whom an admonition comes from his Lord and he desists, then will that which he received in the past be his; and his affair is with Allah. And those who revert to it, they are the inmates of the Fire; therein shall they abide. 2:277. Allah abolishes interest and causes charity to increase. And Allah loves not anyone who is a confirmed disbeliever and an arch-sinner. 2:278. Surely, those who believe and do good deeds and observe Prayer and pay the Zakat shall have their reward from their Lord, and no fear shall come on them, nor shall they grieve. 2:279. O ye who believe! fear Allah and relinquish what remains of interest, if you are believers. 2:280. But if you do it not, then beware of war from Allah and His Messenger; and if you repent, then you shall have your original sums; thus you shall not wrong, nor shall you be wronged. 2:281. And if any debtor be in straitened circumstances, then grant him respite till a time of ease. And that you remit it as charity shall be better for you, if only you knew. 2:282. And fear the day when you shall be made to return to Allah; then shall every soul be paid in full what it has earned; and they shall not be wronged. Islam forbids interest (Riba), both receiving and paying it

I am leaving the USA to live in the Philippines in December. I will have higher standard of living I will have at the same cost I will pay at home, and own a business with my wife who is filipino. and tbh, I am grateful I left because people in the Philippines are super nice to me compared to back in US where people are entitled or delusional.

ok but you could be if you sign a contract, its cool what paper can do

Wait until you learn about interest and contract terms.

Wait till you learn about illegal clauses in contracts. Clauses that when added to paper invalidate the whole contract. Oh wait. American right? Yeah. You don't have a proper government. So sucks. You basically are just cattle for the 100 powerful in your country. Remember 6 people own more than the bottom 40% of your society.

Its different if your pal agreed to pay you back 150 bucks for your 100 bucks, and an increase of 50 bucks for every year he did not pay off whatever he owed you at the moment. If your pal agreed to it, and you both have it in writing and it was accepted as a legal contract. But because you two were pals you can decide to annul the contract and just take the 100, or you can get a profit/be greedy and take 150 + interest.

I pay only 1,7 apr on my student loans over in Sweden. Oh, and it's without compound interest.

It's easy to do all this when Europe is protected by the US military

It's about the same in France. I never paid more than 6~700€ per year for my medical degree

Unfortunately our current government seems hellbent on dismantling our system bit by bit to force young people to speed run higher education - which harms kids from low income families with no academic background…. Of course, it could be even worse, but it’s just a shame to see them attempting to gradually dismantle a system that has benefited my generation so much (early GenX). A month ago or so, I read a review of a book written by a guy who insisted that it’s about time we dismantle the welfare state, since we already had opened the market for private health insurance, private hospitals and private schools getting public funds, and since more and more parents were paying for extra tutoring of their kids, and the state already limited the building of non-profit housing and subsidies investment fonds and corporations building of housing… To me, coming from a low income family and having benefited from the welfare state in regards to healthcare, getting an education, etc., it’s scary to see that instead of investing in the continuation and strengthening of the welfare state, so many people, who just like me has benefited from it, are willing to dismantle it, in return for tax cuts….. But yeah, at least we don’t live in the USA! (Ha' en fantastisk dag!🇩🇰❤️)

Same in The Netherlands. The amount you have to pay back monthly depends on your income. And after 35 years what’s rest of the loan is forgiven.

@@jannetteberends8730 That’s a great idea, that means people who for some reason have struggled in life won’t have to continue with the burden in their senior years - love it!

a union... ffs

there are some effort to buy debt at cents on the dollar, and it works, because at least for people who have a really hard time paying them, that's the actual expected value, and thus the market you can get it at, of course, it's not an option to you, the borrower, to "repay" at this price, but entities can buy lots and forgive people in them, you can pardon millions of dollars of debt, for tens of thousands of dollars.

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​@@mikek9297but "u" is vowel, so shouldn't it be "an" beforehand?

Isn't that correct grammar? ​@mikek9297

The military + social security > low taxes (for the wealthy). #simple

For almost 3 decades they print money like crazy 🤡

Cuz the US Government put both Healthcare and Education, among other things, to the private sector, which are more profit driven and put money to CEOs who dodge taxes and hoarding the money. I know I'm sounding like a socialist/Bernie Sanders

It gets worse. Tuition was something like $4000 a year and then after the government made the student loan program colleges realized they could charge ludicrous amounts of money and tuition went up to 20,000-60,000 a year.

Or don't take a student loan

go look up what adjunct teachers are it gets much much worse, they universities dont even pay the staff that these kids are going broke paying for

Americans and their obsession with profits will eventually ruin those greedy corporations in the long run. There will come a time where highly educated professionals will be hard to come by because of how hard it is to access quality higher education.

@@civilengineer3349or don’t be greedy and think of making higher education more accessible as a long term investment in the economy and society as a whole.

that's definitely a big part of it

Here in Denmark we have tuition free higher education! Students only pay for books, copy paper, and such… They get a free State Grant, and can apply for a State Guaranteed Low Interest Student Loan….

yes, and they'll be very mad, in 2 weeks

@@Repsikka why in two weeks?

@@asdfghyter because Latvians are slow

@@Repsikka no, we're already fuming!

At leats the baltic states are no longer being confused with Russia. Tho it seams Putin would reaaalyy like that.

I went to high school in the US, and then moved to Sweden for university - and comparing the cultures, it is kind of insane just how much perceived pressure there is on US high school students that you HAVE to go to college right away, or else good colleges won't have you. Among the people I went to high school with, the attitude was "Unless you are doing something cool (which was usually volontourism...) you'll be rejected if you don't go to college right away." Then starting university in Sweden it was more common than not for people to have taken at least one year and often several to do something else before starting college.

Right!?? PAID state college? wth does that even mean? 🤣

isn't the loan for the money you get in SU (SU=State Educational Grant and Loan Scheme). not for the education itself?

They have expensive lawyers, and the people they're harrassing and cheating are already in debt and can't afford to sue?

@@quietreason8679 we don't have to here, you can just go to the special civic court with your complain and the government will handle your case for you if its small enough. if its more than 20x minimum wage you do have to hire a lawyer, but they are paid a cut of the pay, usually between 10 to 20%. if they lose they are paid nothing, but it would be such a easy win for them that most lawyers would just jump at the opportunity of taking the case.

Well, they have the GOP and MAGA people - imagine if France by large was governed by Le Pen types and worse!

France had places like Haiti paying them reparations for their freedom for centuries. Something they only recently completed.

I‘ve studied medicine at a top university in germany and it costed me around 300€ per year… i think i am not worse educated than someone with a medical degree in the usa 🙃

I got 3 degrees for free, and the government even covered some of my expenses. And this is a poor country. Education is mostly a bunch of people in a room talking to each other, it shouldn't be expensive. Not to mention that today even the room is optional.

@@andrasbiro3007 Well, if your definition of an education is "just a bunch of people in a room talking to each other', then I guess everything from the Pub to Church would be "an education"....

As a person living nowhere near Estonia. I can confirm I have absolutely no idea if you're telling the truth

No it isn't. The trick to remembering is this: arrange the country names alphabetically top to bottom, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

I think this was a joke, but in case it wasn't, that's not Estonia, that's Latvia.

@@ellenojala9985except its not Latvia, its actually the Ottoman Empire

As a person living in Estonia's neighboring country, I can confirm that it is not

South? 😅

@@CeciliaMarieLuna omg thank you

​@@CeciliaMarieLuna South of Lativa is LITHUANIA 💀 the three Baltic countries goes, in order of placement, Estonia - Lativa - Lithuania

@@ACMH98 I messed it up and edited my comment T.T

I prefer it free like in my country...😂

The point wasn t to make them easier to pay. But to get a great way to legally enslave the workforce...

@@dommerjr free. i am getting paid. feel bad for people in the US and around the world whos struggling with costs of education

i recommend to you my friend reading about Islam and what it says about interest after watching this episode

you cant poison the blood of a nation built on slavery with another form of (wage) slavery, if anything this kind of human rights abuse brings more of a consistency to the american dream

Today I watched a video about how the police caught a murderess from New York fleeing to Mexico. And thought there are probably more USA criminals going to Mexico than the other way around.

@@jannetteberends8730can confirm this happens all the time, I have met people doing similar things but leaving to other countries

I was wondering whether that was in Fallout. Nice.