You seem to not understand how far racism goes in America. Right now the government is screwing over the poorer part of the population by taking away health care in more Rural Republican areas, Medicaid when the rural areas needs it most and Florida (where I live now) is cheering the government on while they kill FEMA even though this state is hit by a hurricane every year (slight exaggeration).
There won’t be a revolution because poor rural America is happy as long as Trump mistreats immigrants and non straight (and especially trans) people and as long as he protects Jews because they believe if Isreal doesn’t exist, Jesus won’t have a place to come back to (no exaggeration). No I don’t have any opinion one way or the other about Isreal vs Palestine.
The American people and especially the poor who overwhelmingly voted for Trump this time are going to get exactly what they voted for.
I would be more than happy for my taxes to support education, universal healthcare, fully funded pre-K, a better safety net etc. I wouldn’t have a problem if my stock returns decreased slightly because corporations paid more taxes to help a better safety net. But on the other hand I did move to state tax free (and warm) Florida when I started working remotely post 2020 and save a good chunk each year.
Why wouldn’t I take advantage of the arbitrage of being on the other side of inequality and make as much money as possible, keep 12 months expenses in savings outside of retirement savings and stack money? I vote for politicians who probably wouldn’t treat me as favorably as far as taxes to help pull others up.
The only people who believe America is the objectively best country are those who are on the other side of income gap like me and those who haven’t actually been anywhere else for any length of time and don’t realize how ridiculous for instance the American health care system
is.
My wife and I have done the digital nomad thing domestically from late 2022-late 2023 only coming home to Florida for Jan-February.
Starting next year, we are going to spend a few months in Costa Rica and/or Panama City every year. I know how good and affordable the public health care system is there (caja) and even paying out of pocket is feasible for many things for health tourism. We are really leaning toward retiring there permanently or at least become legal residents.
> You seem to not understand how far racism goes in America.
Well, I said it was probably worse than in Europe, I did not bound it :).
> Why wouldn’t I take advantage of the arbitrage of being on the other side of inequality and make as much money as possible
If you're in the US it seems like you definitely should, because that's how it works there. My point was that if you're not part of those benefitting from that, or if you don't actually want to live in a country that values this lifestyle, then that's a reason to move to another country.
And many many countries are better than the US if you "don't mostly care about money", if I can say it like that.
On HN I often see messages from US people saying that "Europe is dying" and "Europe cannot innovate". My point is that a large part of the people in Europe would not want to live in the US, and there are reasons for that. And those US people seem to not realise it.
There won’t be a revolution because poor rural America is happy as long as Trump mistreats immigrants and non straight (and especially trans) people and as long as he protects Jews because they believe if Isreal doesn’t exist, Jesus won’t have a place to come back to (no exaggeration). No I don’t have any opinion one way or the other about Isreal vs Palestine.
The American people and especially the poor who overwhelmingly voted for Trump this time are going to get exactly what they voted for.
I would be more than happy for my taxes to support education, universal healthcare, fully funded pre-K, a better safety net etc. I wouldn’t have a problem if my stock returns decreased slightly because corporations paid more taxes to help a better safety net. But on the other hand I did move to state tax free (and warm) Florida when I started working remotely post 2020 and save a good chunk each year.
Why wouldn’t I take advantage of the arbitrage of being on the other side of inequality and make as much money as possible, keep 12 months expenses in savings outside of retirement savings and stack money? I vote for politicians who probably wouldn’t treat me as favorably as far as taxes to help pull others up.
The only people who believe America is the objectively best country are those who are on the other side of income gap like me and those who haven’t actually been anywhere else for any length of time and don’t realize how ridiculous for instance the American health care system is.
My wife and I have done the digital nomad thing domestically from late 2022-late 2023 only coming home to Florida for Jan-February.
Starting next year, we are going to spend a few months in Costa Rica and/or Panama City every year. I know how good and affordable the public health care system is there (caja) and even paying out of pocket is feasible for many things for health tourism. We are really leaning toward retiring there permanently or at least become legal residents.