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RE: The US
by zima on Thu 6th Dec 2012 15:08 UTC in reply to "The US"
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What I also noticed is how much poorer the average American is than the average, say Dutchmen or Dane. Once you leave the fancy business centers and go to the suburbs or drive through the countryside, you start noticing that many people are poor. The income inequality in Westen European and Scandinavian countries is much smaller than in the US. It's a difference in culture: Americans are prepared to take more risks, if you make it, you make it big. We tend to spread risk, if you make it big, you'll be paying a lot of taxes ;) .

BTW you might find article interesting.

Plus, people in the US also believe in myths such as "land of opportunity" or "American Dream" ...while the place is actually at the bottom in actual measure of this stuff, social mobility (in short, how much your success depends on your own efforts, and how much on being born into it, in the right social group). Many of the popularly disparaged "nanny states" - at the top.

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