Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun

• p0358@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unfortunately the combined forces of US and Russian propaganda machines try very hard to ruin it for us, and they see some success in depleting EU membership support in polls and various political unrests

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Politic stability”

  Hahaha…Good joke…

  To be fair, it isnt as bad in the USA but you can’t really say it is really stable. The far right and conservatives are getting stronger and the left/right trench is getting bigger

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The US is exceptionally stable. Their current administration has been demolishing their country for an year and they’re still in power, with support from the other branches of government.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Having lived in a couple of countries in Europe, from The Netherlands which has Proportional Vote system and a thus a multitude of small parties to Britain with a First Past The Post system like the US and thus pretty much a Two Party System, I’ve concluded that at least in Politics stability is just like standing water - it invariably turns into a swamp.

      We need some amount of constant change to bring up and flush out the rot that innevitably accumulates in the murky waters of a system were power is always in the hands of a subset of people who are all in the same social circles, went to the same schools and whose sons and daughters marry each other.

      Not “Daily Revolution”, just regular change so that any funny business going on outside the public eye risks being brought to light, destroyed and the guilty people punished because power has changed has to people who aren’t mates of the crooks that did it.

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We may don’t get multi 6-figure jobs, but we also don’t have to pay 5-figures to visit a healthcare place and fear for our lives by being at will employed. And the CoL is probably also way lower in comparison.

    I’d rather continue living here than in USA

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  • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    More money ≠ more purchasing power

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  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah but we pay way less for housing and health.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      At least in Europe housing is at the moment proportionally to incomes just as bad as in the US.

      Totally agree on Health, though.

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In my country the vast majority of people can’t afford to live alone, because housing’s too expensive for a single person. It has always been so, traditionally you lived with your parents until you got married, then with your families’ help you’d get somewhere to live, if you were well off enough they’d help you start a mortgage, etc.

      Nowadays families can’t set aside that kind of savings anymore, for the most part, so the help they can provide is severely reduced.

      Shit was rough for Millennials, I have no idea how Gen-Z’ers manage, as it seems to be even worse now.

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  • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Right. The Weimar Republic had their population making substantially more cash than at any point.

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s true for software engineering because the salaries in NA are insane due to the insane profits those companies are making. But for the average job, life is better.

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  • Fokeu@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We generally pay less

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