adeyami

Land of the free home of the rich

thepandabaker

What really scares me is that they all have significantly cheaper health care AND education, which means Americans not only make the least, they pay the most.

antolovich

…wait, what?

the-cinnamon-peelers-wife

Yup.

christel-thoughts

get less vacations too. 

our entire culture is working and then trying to find ways to distract ourselves from the overly-worked-induced depression.

feytaline-loves

the weirdest thing is that it’s not even like we as a culture NEED to work so much—there are still a lot of unemployed or underemployed people! The workforce is there, but paying four people vs one who has to get stuff done no matter how exausting it is —well, the choice for companies is easy.

GOTTA GET THEM EXECUTIVES BONUSES Y’KNOW.

sushinfood

im in ontario canada and my minimum wage is $11. they’re different per province okay it’s not just ALL OF CANADA IS THIS

There you go. Not much better, but now you have some more facts.

professor-maple-mod

yup the US sucks I’m moving to Mars

bevendre

And to think, there are debates stating that raising the minimum wage in the US to $9/hr would destroy the economy.