The U.S. is also the 4th largest nation. It's kind of hard to administrate something of that size. Our population is also 3x larger than the average European nation ( grouping Russia into this ( sorry Asiatic-prefererenced Russkis! )), again, kind of hard to administrate. It's so hard to administrate, that we literally don't know how many people are below the poverty line. We only have such " low " unemployment because that's how many people could figure out, had the time or ability to sign up for welfare/etc. When you don't have such basic statistics like that, you know there's an administration problem.
You blame the capitalist system for our problems, but in theory, capitalism is a perfect system. If you work hard, you get rewarded proportionally. It sounds a lot better than Communism's " Work hard, everybody gets 1 more milligram in their rations! ", and a helluva lot better than Meritocracy's " Serve as a soldier for X Years, live as an underprivileged citizen until you serve as a soldier for another Y years! ". Question response response.
No, I am saying 1% of the people control 40% of the train.
You misheard me. I was referring to the " Every 4 miles, elect a new train conductor " mechanic. It seems that 1 man would politically and realistically control the entire train, when irl there is a supreme court that can declare things unconstitutional and a congress that can impeach the president.
Depends. If you are part of the 1% maybe not. If you are part of the 80% majority though, yes, there are much better trains for you. In fact, people in almost all other developed country trains, travel much better. Even a diabolical evil communist country like Cuba, under US embargo for almost 50 years, which includes medicine, has better child and infant mortality rates than the USA.
As said earlier, there is a very high immigration influx which causes administration problems. Not that I'm anti-immigration or anything ; the Hispanic culture will end up being a huge market boost and we'll look like heroes at the end of the day for shielding these people from these warped Latin American nations and their criminal underworlds. From an honest perspective, I don't think anybody would really want to be the 1%. That'd probably be the most unrewarding, bottomless pit of despair ever. It's always the journey, and never the destination. I'll stick to $72k/year with a smile on my face than have my every request be granted. And, the other developed nations in the world much more socialist than ours, and for someone aspiring to climb up the political ladder, that doesn't sound very good to me.
No, I am not saying your train is the worst. You train started of from a high level. It was a modern train in the 60s for the people that rode it, but since then the people have been pushed more and more in the back wagons, to make room for the 1%. But there is a good chance that trains which got a lot of "help" by your train, like Guatemala, El Salvador, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia etc. are the worst. And the trains that got "help" by the European countries for centuries of course, like the African trains. If you want to ride a good train, stay away from Africa and trains that got "help" by your train.
This train is more modern than any other train in the world. The women don't have to hide themselves in public, we can protest the government functions, we can bear our own arms in times of crisis and everybody ( though this rule is impartial in times of combat ) is guaranteed a speedy trial with an attorney and a jury of their peers. Also, we have top universities that have been running the periodic table for a while.
You keep claiming that the 1% control/run the nation, but I'm pretty sure that's the government. Also, you keep talking about how they run this nation, but what about your European nations, like the one you live in? Are they not run by the wealthy? Isn't everything technically run by the wealthy, elite and those in political power? The 1% aren't " running " anything but their businesses. If you haven't been watching the news/reading the news ( I know that you have a great affinity for a backwards system such as newspapers ), you'd know that the thing keeping a lot of business up is bailouts. If those stop, they all crumble. Hmm, sounds like a lot more like those elected by us ( give or take ) are in the real power, as they should be.
Where did you read that? Shrug.
You said that it was " for standing places, black against white against Hispanic against republican... etc ". Not sure if this was intended or not, but you did have the opportunity to just leave the sentence where it was and not go in-depth.
In the end, you are willing to sacrfise your own well being just to prevent more equality. Equality which made the best trains like the scandinavian trains, exactly what they are, the best trains. They even seem to not run towards the abyss.
Equality doesn't solve anything. Equality is also impossible. How can we all be equal if we are all different? The closest thing we'll ever get to equality is simply trusting each other to respect each other. No government will ever be able to enforce such a thing. Also, you can have fun with your model train set. That's the only place where Scandinavia will ever have the " best trains ". I can only name 2 business from Scandinavia , matter-of-factly ; LEGO and IKEA. When you're more recognized for IKEA than the women, your nation is not the balls.
Esq. Genghis XIII of Cornwall
