Hi, I’m from Poland, and I recently read in the US National Security Strategy about Europe’s supposed “civilizational erasure.”
So I’d like to tell you a bit about European civilization.
🇪🇺We have a more modest GDP, yet we still run a trade surplus with the United States, employ 2.5 times more industrial workers, have a higher export share in GDP, and maintain lower income inequality.
🇪🇺We don’t have a heavily privatized healthcare system, yet our life expectancy at birth is about three years higher, and infant mortality is nearly half that of the US.
🇪🇺We don’t have universal and unconditional access to firearms, yet European cities are far safer: we have clearly lower rates of homicide, violent crime, and car theft.
🇪🇺We don’t design our entire spatial order around a single mode of transport; instead, we build transport systems with a strong role for public transit, including rail.
🇪🇺We don’t have tech giants pumping up stock-market valuations, but we do equip ordinary workers with things like paid monthly vacations, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and contracts that prevent sudden dismissal.
So let’s ask ourselves:
which of these things truly reflects the kind of civilization we want to pursue?
PS
In the photo I’m sitting and waiting for some delicious food, did I mention that Europe is superior in this as well, because we have regulations that limit the use of harmful food additives?
@EliAfriatISR You did to Gaza what Germans did to Warsaw, where thousands of Poles and Jews were killed. You have no shame and playing the victim card no longer works.
chłopcy z KKS Czarni nadal nie mają opieki psychologa wbrew temu, co się mówi. sprawa wypłynęła we wtorek (mój bratanek gra właśnie w tej drużynie). klub ma zapewnić psychologa od piątku. ze str szkoły 0 reakcji. ma byc zebranie rodziców w środę
@GavinElwes@dogeofficialceo Universal health care, free higher education, work-life balance, no school shootings, up to 26 days paid vacation, and paid maternity leave, to mention a few.