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  • I said very few places were better alternatives. Scandinavia is never going to be able to accommodate the volume of migrants as had the United States. Scandinavia also has a lot of problems regarding their immigrant communities … high unemployment, crime, and difficulty integrating. When comparing people in the US and places like Sweden, if you control for factors like race or immigration status, the average expected experience fairs very well in the United States. Where I live in the US is very clean, gun violence is low, my cost of healthcare is almost zero … really the only thing I’d like is the vacation time but I am self-employed and am a cruel boss to myself. Most of the problems Europeans try to claim about the US are problems that do exist but are largely confined to black communities. These problems do need to be addressed but are things that Europeans have no real comparison to outside places that have large romani populations.



















  • Your criticism would make sense if China had a higher gini coefficient but they do not. Plus, it is well-known that Chinese home ownership rates are a product of the one child policy tied with the fact that young Chinese can never afford their own house. Each family’s one child just never moves out. It is very common to live with your parents your entire life and to assume their house once they are dead. In the US it is very common for families to have several children and for the children to move out once they are adults.


    1. China had such a terrible starting point because the Chinese Communist Party made terrible policy decisions in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
    2. You do realize Chinese home ownership rates exist only by fact that children do not move out of their parents’ house. The cost of housing makes it impossible and the one child policy makes inheritance practical. Home ownership rates literally only exist because the country is in a slow self-destruction. It could not exist if the Chinese bothered having babies or found it possible to move out of their parents’ house.

    There’s a reason why so many Chinese are immigrating to the United States. China is no utopia.