A lot of Europeans get 4 to 6 weeks of paid vacation every year as a normal job benefit.
Add in:
Cheap flights booked months ahead
Splitting Airbnbs with friends
Saving specifically for the World Cup
Higher average salaries in some countries
And suddenly spending 2 or 3 weeks in the U.S. isn't that crazy.
The thing that shocks Americans isn't the money. It's that Europeans can casually say, "Yeah, I'm taking three weeks off for football," and their boss just goes, "See you when you get back." 😭⚽️
Morty: Capitalism gives everyone a chance to get rich if they just work hard enough.
Rick: Oh my god, Morty! Capitalism doesn't work if everyone wins. It needs poverty to function. Someone has to take the low-paying jobs so the profits keep flowing upward. If everyone had real financial security, no one would take those positions and the system would collapse.
Morty: But Rick, that's just how the market works. Some people earn more because they provide more value.
Rick: Tell that to the kid assembling your iPhone overseas for pennies while some CEO makes millions off it. Capitalism doesn't reward work, it rewards ownership. You don't climb the ladder by working hard, you climb it by owning the ladder. The workers collectively produce infinitely more value than some shareholder living in the Bahamas.
Morty: Okay, but isn't it about freedom People can still move up if they make good choices. Look at people who came from nothing and became successful, like entrepreneurs or celebrities.
Rick: Those are exceptions, idiot. That's why they're on TV. For every one person who makes it out, millions stay stuck because they never had the same luck, connections, or safety nets. The system needs those stories so people believe it's fair.
Indian tech workers aren't "hardworking". They're just the cheapest, most obedient labor on the planet.
12-14 hour days, weekends, festivals, 2 AM calls, all accepted with "sir, no problem".
Meanwhile foreign engineers do half the work for 5-8x the money and still have boundaries.
We don’t have a talent advantage. We have a desperation advantage. That’s the real Indian tech story tbh.
@RealTomPowellJr The 'it's natural' argument cuts both ways. Nature includes same-sex pairing and infanticide, so 'found in nature' doesn't tell us what's good or bad for humans. We have to argue morality on human terms, not animal ones.
@RealTomPowellJr Animals seem gay b/c they have an urge to have sex and they must satisfy that need. Animals have low IQs and almost no temperance that’s why they behave this way, that’s why dogs hump everything. Now u can see why we call gays mentally ill, they have the mental capacity of a dog