Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion

Everyone hate 9 to 5 job but still we have to do that. Crypto is a new way to earn income. Thanks to crypto I can now afford a better life style.

https://twitter.com/imodernman/status/1556018554918649856?t=fLbKurAyY-5lMkIKTs54Zw&s=19

Well I'm happy not to live in the USA.
We get way more vacation with a regular job. Also job security is way better. Sick leave no matter how long you need to recover, etc.

Americans think they live in the most free country in the world but that's simply not true.

Yet average GDP for every EU country except for Luxemburg is still lower than that of the USA.

Certain job sectors in fact across Europe such as IT pay pittance salaries compared to the USA. Sure, you only have private healthcare in the States but it is also of a much higher quality.
Many Europeans need to flock exactly to the States to get experimental cancer treatments simply not available in Europe.

I think you are pretty much the definition of an ignorant European who stupidly have outsourced energy security to a country you for some bizarre historical reason hate and you have also installed countless layers of government thinking it will protect you from trouble where in fact it is turning into a similar political setup that Adolf Hitler wanted to achieve: Germany in control and no one else gets a say. When someone wants to leave said political system such as the UK you shame them and completely forget it was them who saved your asses from all speaking German or Russian by now.

It is also my understanding that the once secure job market in the likes of The Netherlands now with year only contracts is nowhere near as safe as it used to be. Plus the constant mumblings over ditching the mortgage tax break would make the average worker / mortgage payer much poorer if it were to go.

It's all relative. Cost of living in the US is insane. Job security is non-existent. And salaries are low if you take cost of living into account.

The healthcare argument is a stupid one. USA ranks 18th in the world and my little postage stamp of a country ranks higher. For experimental treatments of cancer the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and France rank the highest in the world.

And you can have the best in the world but who cares if you can't get access to it. If I get cancer, I get helped. You get cancer it's a big fuck-you if you can't pay hundreds of thousand dollars.

Edit: I'm in the Netherlands and here you have a 1 year contract. They can extend it twice and then they must give you a permanent running contact. It's been like this for a long time.
But a full contract is usually a negotiation point. Haven't heard that anything changed, but it doesn't affect me as a contracter.

European countries always dominate the top 10 index, better quality of life.

https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/WHR+22.pdf

I've visited the US a couple of times, found it to be feeling pretty un-free, e.g. because of extreme poverty you see, because of the many silly rules e.g. not being able to say shit on TV or radio or not being able to get a beer without something to eat, but also because of the infrastructure which restricts you from movement if you don't have a car (e.g. if you're a kid or drunk). Also the harsh punishments for little things like drugs. And also the hard time people get for being themselves, you see a lot less diversity on the street unless you go to a hotspot like San Fransisco or New York.

Maybe Bitcoinbunny should visit the NL sometime. If you like freedom I'm sure you'll like it!

Using GDP per capita for the US is misleading since the gini coefficient there is higher than in Europe (that's income disparity). Being poor/average is better in (western) Europe. Being above average/rich is better in the US. If you never fall back to being poor, of course.

I'm considering moving to the US because I work in IT so I could probably earn a lot more there and be above average, and if it doesn't work out I can come back. I can even keep my French health insurance by contributing a bit to the French system while living elsewhere (and also keep my state pension alive).

Also in France (but not necessarily elsewhere in western Europe, well I think Italy is similar) the job market is a bit stuck. It has improved but there is a very strong culture of the diploma being king, and not giving their chance to people not conforming to the norm. That's partly due to laws making it very difficult to fire someone, that have now been improved, but it has become cultural.