bloody spaniard wrote:Sometimes I think we deserve the cesspool we helped create. We are a small, silly yet arrogant people always yearning for immediate gratification.
The world knows it & poo poohs it BUT they still flock to the USA because they know deep inside their shiiteholes are even worse. Despite that, many resist assimilation as they try to reproduce here what they originally ran away from in the first place.
Please let me off this hamster wheel.
Yeah.
The ones that come here and assimilate, they "get it." The rest: don't. They use it as a port in the storm, and when they realize that the storm isn't going to end, they try to make it "like home." The problem is that "home" MADE that frickin' storm in the first place.
And working with a lot of people from different countries makes me realize that the one thing that this nation has over everyone else is that you can live as comfortable as you'd like to work for. Meaning: you want nice stuff? You work for it. In other countries you get accustomed to not having nice things, because there is no incentive to go get them, and thus you take what is handed to you. I'll never forget the Swedes in the last company I worked for were CONSTANTLY complaining about how US workers got paid three-times what they did. Of course, none of them wanted to come work over here because we usually worked 40+ hours, and they never wanted to work past 31 - dead serious when I say this.
They used to get a massuse, pizza parties every Friday, and a whole bunch of perks, while we were working out of a Panera bread half of the time, and we had to use the public library for meetings at times. However, after a while, their little subsidized utopia came to a crashing halt as NONE of their stuff worked properly. It then became incumbent for the US branch to float the company's profit margin as we were the only profitable entity. We made a fourth of the revenue they were taking in, and we were actually turning a profit.
So in paying us three times as much in salary, we STILL had lower operating costs, and were able to turn a profit...mainly because we worked for what we got.
And then I'd have to sit down with them and listen to how great things in Sweden are. If they are so great, WHY IN THE HELL CAN'T YOU FRICKIN' SLACKERS TURN A PROFIT WHEN YOU PULL IN FOUR TIMES WHAT WE DO IN REVENUE?!?!?
But I'm not bitter...