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Re:Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again by megaman821 on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @01:13PM (#40443439)
Europe also experienced a pandemic, has even worse inflation and worse unemployment. It could just be cultural attitudes make European cities a more pleasant place to live.
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Re:Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again by balls187 on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @01:49PM (#40443867)
> It could just be cultural attitudes make European cities a more pleasant place to live.

Cultural attitudes certainly, particularly around work vs leisure. Also mass transit systems, and social supports for people working in the service industry.

The criticisms for europe are that it takes a lot of tax revenue to support those things, bureaucracy, strikes, etc.

Im not saying one system is better than the other--just that in the US, despite our massive economic might, our standard of living sucks.

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Re:Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education again by kiba on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @02:14PM (#40444149)
Mass transits and more pleasant places to live are probably correlated with more tax efficient policies.

It's just that the USA has accumulated a number of unfair advantages.

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