"If Socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be Socialists." - F.A. Hayek, economist

@Tespri

26 күн бұрын

I love how they liked to look down on others and think as if they are educated after reading propaganda book by marx. While literally never spend a single day to read proper article by any real economist. They don't even understand supply and demand.

@Komrad_Cybersyn

26 күн бұрын

​@@Tesprion the countrary, they understand it very well, to the point where they can point out the market playing on these and modify artificially these to increase profit. Among other things.

@Tespri

26 күн бұрын

@@Komrad_Cybersyn they don't, that's why their societies always have economic issues. They don't even know what is usual profit margin and doesn't understand that socialism/communism wouldn't solve inherent issue to lack of supplies

Even if the song wasn't blatantly lying...where's the subtlety? Where's the nuance? Classic Simpsons worked because even though it was a satire of America, it wasn't telling you, "Hey look, we're making fun of America!"

@WizeGuyz2023

26 күн бұрын

If you watched or even looked up the episode this entire scene is satire and the entire episode is just making fun of tipping culture in general. This song is a product of Homer's mental break down and he ends up getting beaten up for trying to bring it back home.

@kennethcraig9228

26 күн бұрын

@@WizeGuyz2023 I'll ask his questions again since you didn't read them. "Where's the subtlety? Where's the nuance?" This scene is about as subtle as a hammer to the back.

@gamingforever9121

26 күн бұрын

@@kennethcraig9228I take offense to that, as a hammer I’m a lot more subtle😂.

@b.g.5869

26 күн бұрын

The irony is one of the old Simpsons Halloween specials had a tombstone labeled "Subtle Satire".

Homer is clearly being held under duress, and forced to make this filth! Free Homer!

@MilwaukeeF40C

27 күн бұрын

Homer is a construct. I went South Park decades ago.

@scoon2117

25 күн бұрын

Homer's been dead for 15 years atleast

This isn't comedy. It's cringe inducing political propaganda without even a pretense of humor.

@gamingforever9121

26 күн бұрын

Joseph Gerbils minister for propaganda had a better understanding of how to win hearts and minds to your ideas. Then the modern Simpson crew.

@itsdutchintime1907

26 күн бұрын

​@@gamingforever9121*Goebbels

0:45 An Australian CRINGING at the free healthcare line.... Nothing is free.

@zoidberg1201

22 күн бұрын

It's free at the point of service, which you know well.

@michaelhutchings8599

21 күн бұрын

@@zoidberg1201 Yeah. I'd rather pay 8k to get my compound fractured leg into surgery than wait 3 day's

They love cherry picking the "good aspects" but not taking into account how much in taxes, wait time and rationing their healthcare does. Also helps when you have a country that is your defense force

My EU shithole country just passed a new property tax. So of 10.000 in rent I collect for one house: I pay 2k in VAT, 3k in property tax., and 2.5k in income tax. 75% tax is how "free" free healthcare is.

@josephhudson4973

27 күн бұрын

Which country sorry?

@moden321

27 күн бұрын

@@josephhudson4973 Austria. I likely will be able to avoid VAT and property tax. I'm stuck though with 50% marginal income tax.

@professorhaystacks6606

27 күн бұрын

@@moden321 What value is added for VAT to apply? I guess maybe upkeep?

@joleaneshmoleane8358

27 күн бұрын

😳

@moden321

27 күн бұрын

@@professorhaystacks6606 The _value_ is the state not abducting and caging me.

It is a much bigger problem. The Simpsons used to be an amazingly clever and hysterical program, always a joy to watch. Then they had a change of producers somewhere around Season 8 and it has been dumbed-down, not funny ever since.

@paulmccrary2239

27 күн бұрын

in the golden era they certainly had a point of view politically, but it was done in such a subtle way that it's still enjoyable and even persuasive sometimes. It is really sad to see what the show has become.

@CleverGirlAAH

10 күн бұрын

@@paulmccrary2239 Not to mention there has been no advance in culture since 2002...

The tipping is compulsory and hidden.

@mrashid1995

27 күн бұрын

Absolutely. In Germany you tip 10% at minimum

@TheAlwaysPrepared

27 күн бұрын

@@mrashid1995 Not if the service sucks ;)

@mrashid1995

27 күн бұрын

@TheAlwaysPrepared also true, but people try to be nice to each other, so they tip anyway

That Simpsons song sucked, but they should just tell you how much something actually costs upfront.

@generalmeanguy8902

27 күн бұрын

Yup, honesty I prefer paying more upfront than having to think about a tip

@evlo8059

27 күн бұрын

@@generalmeanguy8902 so you do not tip in eu countries?!

@TheCamoWolf

27 күн бұрын

You don't have to tip. A tip is just an option to give someone a bonus. Its not required.

@nustada

27 күн бұрын

@@TheCamoWolf So exactly the same as the USA.

@TheCamoWolf

27 күн бұрын

@@nustada I am talking about the USA.

Europe is a pretty bad example of tipping culture contrast, being where the culture of gratuity we know today comes from. Japan however, could have made for a funny tipping culture scene. Homer could have offered a tip and offended a business owner.

@GerardPerry

27 күн бұрын

Good point.

@TXGRunner

26 күн бұрын

Exactly. On my first trip to Japan, I asked the bellhop taking me to my room if tipping was customary. His English was poor and my Japanese was non-existent, but I had actually embarrassed him. He was shocked at my question. By contrast, at a hotel in Frankfurt, they charged me a 10% service charge, and even a charge on parking which was included with room - the parking was included, the "service charge" for the fully automated parking garage was not included.

@4.0.4

25 күн бұрын

But the point was not to make humor, rather to propagandize about the EU.

My ex was a server. She made more money in 3 days than I did all week. She only had to claim tips to about 10% of her sales to keep the IRS happy which further reduced her taxes. Having spent 10 years in the restaurant industry (BOH), my experience was always that the ones complaining about money were the worst servers.

I used to love the Simpsons and they've always had a liberal bent. Now they are just an unfunny commercial for the DNC. They did a full music number with Robert Reich at some point. That guy is just terrible. It made me realize that the Simpsons was truly dead.

@djm5687

26 күн бұрын

The voice actors (especially Harry Shearer and Julie Kavner) are starting to get old and don't have as much "character" to their voices as they once did.

@CleverGirlAAH

10 күн бұрын

@@djm5687 They're just really really really big paychecks now. And they also know the characters aren't funny- and they don't even know the stuff the writers write anymore, since they're just terrible Family Guy rejected jokes.

Mainstream comedy has become political ranting. It's populism for smugness.

@1krani

26 күн бұрын

Has been ever since George Carlin started doing it toward the end of his life.

@STho205

26 күн бұрын

It was that way for Mark Twain and Ben Franklin. It really isn't new, just more blatant and clumsy.

@STho205

26 күн бұрын

​@@1krani Carlin was just doing his version of Lenny Bruce. Even Mel Brooks does that kind of social-political humor for most of a century, he is just not on drugs and us better at it.

The problem with the term living wage is that how do you define what is considered living?

I'm sorry but I tip for service not data entry. 🙄

Even Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock managed to make a joke about socialized healthcare. That Simpsons clip is straight-up preaching.

20 years ago, serving / bartending less than 30 hours a week during college and the year after I graduated - I made more annually than I did the first 6 or so years of actually using my professional degree in my chosen field. I actually kept on bartending on Fridays and Saturdays for the first 2-3 years of my 'career' because it nearly doubled my income.

Last time I lived in Germany (3 years ago) I had to pay for healthcare and medication. But maybe I was just stupid and didn't knew where to go to get it for free 🤷

@NM-qd3tm

27 күн бұрын

@DieterDuplak314 If you understood how money works and freedom works then you'd get why the money belongs in your pocket and not everyone elses...all on the off chance you get sick and don't die one of the many other ways people die besides being old and sick. Then you just spend all your life working just to pay into a system you never even used :D Really fair, right.

@YangChuan2001

27 күн бұрын

@DieterDuplak314 Have insurance anyways 🤷

@MilwaukeeF40C

27 күн бұрын

DieterDuplak314 Are you entitled to things that didn't exist 100 years ago? No. What if it turned out that they were never invented at all?

@YangChuan2001

27 күн бұрын

@@MilwaukeeF40C No one is entitled to anyone labor. I'm just mocking the Simpsons for pretending you would get free healthcare in Europe. You don't. That's bullshit.

@STho205

26 күн бұрын

Different post WW2 nations adopted different health systems. Japan and Germany just have compulsory insurance. France has it in the taxes and medical staff are civil service. Britain has the NHS and private pay (just like schools). NHS was originally for charity cases and grew to standard care as prices grew and the NHS grew too as the large number of immigrants came as the British Empire started to be dismantled. They needed NHS coverage to avoid having 3rd world pandemics spread again, or very unsafe childbirth. Labour Government after WW2 kept the war model. The US kept the employer health insurance model they had in WW2. Industry had wage caps 1942 to 1945 to keep them from poaching employees from other defense industries. So employers started adding perks like health insurance to poach or keep employees...that stuck.

I've seen customer service in other countries. If tips are the price I must for pay for American service, then so be it.

@CatWhiskering

27 күн бұрын

Ain't that the truth. You get the same service out of restaurants in France and Italy when they mysteriously close for spells of days or a week at a time with seemingly no consequences to their bottom line. At least when they're closed on any given day they're simply...not serving you, instead of not serving you with a bonus shi++y attitude.

@MilwaukeeF40C

27 күн бұрын

I saw Canadian "service" once. Never again.

@starventure

27 күн бұрын

@@CatWhiskering If you judge by the number of strikes the French are prone to staging every year, the French are a lazy nation.

I’ve working in the front and back of restaurants...I made waaaay more money off of tips as a waiter than I did as a cook

@CatWhiskering

27 күн бұрын

Cool. Cooks get paid a full wage, not a "tipped wage," and waiters in many states also get a full wage.

The EU is economically more fragile, but using real estate market as an indicator of economic prosperity is just plain stupid.

Wow. They’re still on the air with writing like that?!

@evlo8059

27 күн бұрын

probably mandatory

@Praecantetia

27 күн бұрын

How are they ever going to translate that?

@emmettturner9452

27 күн бұрын

@@Praecantetia I remember marveling about how good the writing was on the original Futurama seasons and how the best jokes work in any language… like the one where Bender complains about a woman who accused him of stealing her purse: he denies it but she just keeps coming at him… so he hit her with this purse he “found.” XD They need to fire everyone and pay whatever it takes to get the old writing staff back… including Conan.

@CleverGirlAAH

10 күн бұрын

@@evlo8059 This. It's just a zombie kept animated for the simple "longest-running" claim...

Simpsons really jumped the shark about 20 years ago.

Liberals? Clever humor? Surely you jest.

@keepsmiling7645

27 күн бұрын

They are themselfs liberals. No clue how you Americans call socialists liberals, it's nearly the total opposite

@CleverGirlAAH

10 күн бұрын

Y'know, once upon a time this was true.

I would've laughed if it was just a song about not having to tip in europe but then they kept going.

I was expecting this to be much ado about a throwaway gag. But then the clip just kept going! Hey Simpsons, how about a song about the income disparity between voice actors and animators.

With the best of intentions, what could possibly go wrong!!!

@gorbitroph

27 күн бұрын

I really enjoy that series of videos.

@sifridbassoon

23 күн бұрын

yeah, what happened to them. I haven't seen one in ages.

@gorbitroph

22 күн бұрын

@@sifridbassoon The last one was two months ago (vol. 15)

1) People act as if tipping is mandatory and people don't have the option not to tip. 2) This has been a problem for the past thirty years. Remember seeing all those tipping jars that said, "Tipping is not a city in China".

I grew up bilingually in Germany and the US. I used to think that Germany, and its socialist policies were the way to go. Boy was I wrong. Everything about this place is depressing, and the people have a misplaced sense of superiority about it all. Everything he touched on is spot on. I would also add, that service quality in Europe is horrible. I wonder if tipping is an incentive for better service. The only nice thing about Germany is renting: You get much more control over your unit. You can drill holes, remodel the kitchen if you wanted to etc.

@derchiongster8068

27 күн бұрын

Also East German cities tend to have much better public transportation. Man, it's a lot more comfortable to live in a place with better Public Transport than just driving.

@MilwaukeeF40C

27 күн бұрын

I have added cheap accessories to apartments. But why the fck would you remodel something that is not yours? Europeans have no concept of personal investing and equity.

@DanTheCox

27 күн бұрын

germany is in self destruction mode since WW2, it's not a good example.

Why can't they quantify "a living wage"?

@CatWhiskering

27 күн бұрын

Because the quantity is limitless! It's whatever supports the lifestyle they're certain they deserve!

Ah yes, the Simpson’s. The show where everything Homer says is accurate and should be followed to the letter.

Europe needs tipping. Half of the waiters here don't give a crap about the customers.

I mean, there was an attempt. Tip culture is absolutely garbage but their take on it was weird.

They aren't even that equal over there. I did not know the Simpsons was this terrible.

I have mad respect for how Amber and Robby are able to handle collaborating with aholes like Briahna joy gray

I work in Chicago and they did this and the prices have gone up and I see a ton of people not tipping at all

@evlo8059

27 күн бұрын

wait so is tipping required in usa or not, i'm confused, seems to be exactly the same way as everywhere in eu

@MilwaukeeF40C

27 күн бұрын

A lot of places are doing "automatic gratuity" now. That's when you should absolutely stop tipping.

@mgancarzjr

27 күн бұрын

​@@evlo8059it's not required by law.

@gbalfour9618

27 күн бұрын

@evlo8059 Depends on where you are. Some places pay their people $15+ a hour, while some places straight up won’t let their people take a tip. But others pay way less and expect customers to make up the difference. But many workers like tips as they can walk away with $200+ In one night from tips alone. I had a friend at uni who walked away with $500 in one night (plus his normal wage)

@gbalfour9618

27 күн бұрын

@MilwaukeeF40C That is true too but many of the pos systems need you to ok the price of walk-in/walk-out places and you’d see it. And even then if a place did that to generic workers that worker won’t be going back.

Where is Sideshow Bob when you need him.

There's a lot of jokes that could have been made. Marge could have done tip math in her head, then Lisa corrects her, then Bart says tips are for losers, then Homer confuses tip for napkin or something. Yeah, there's plenty of potential in there. Not sure why they stop the comedy to make a statement.

You know the song is a parody of 'Planet of the Bass' from last year, which is itself a parody of Eurodance culture right? (Just incase people didn't understand why the song is deliberately bad). Anyway, I'm Scottish, been to America many times (and going again in September) but the tipping culture and the iPad screens being shoved in your face for us is horrendous and it's by far the biggest issue most Europeans have with visiting the US. We tip here in restaurants when we have a sit down meal or if you get food delivered, but the expectation to tip bartenders after each drink, and workers who work at tills and just hand you food is something that none of us can understand and something that doesn't happen here (yet, at least). Again, I know it's your culture and it's not a dig, it's just a big shock when you first encounter it. Also, we have those 10% service charges too, but they're not legal by law and if you ask for them to be removed, the restaurant has to comply. Half the people pay them and don't leave a tip for the staff, the other half get them removed and leave cash for the staff.

@starventure

27 күн бұрын

You do know there is a solution to stop feeling offended, yes? Stop visiting. There are loads of other nations to go to that could be more to your tastes. Leave American culture be, and explore other ones instead.

@KevReilly

27 күн бұрын

@@starventure I'm not offended in the slightest, merely poiting out cultural differences

@YesHumphreyAppleby

27 күн бұрын

Even us Americans hate the ipad screens

@spk1121

26 күн бұрын

It's still foreign to Americans, too, and most of us hate it. I grew up exactly the same, you tip for service in a sit-down restaurant or for food delivered, nothing else. Pretty sure some corporate drones on Wall Street loved the idea, which raised stock prices of the original implementers, whoever they were, so a bunch of other companies jumped on board. I never do it at the newer locations, only the same kinds of places and delivery as before.

I feel so bad for Robby and Amber. They have to partner with the dumbest partners on their Hill shows.

All the tip money goes to the government.

@NogardCodesmith

27 күн бұрын

What? No it doesn't. Tips should be in cash. Nobody actually reports their tips. I get why people don't like tipping, but it works fantastically in a cash economy.

@michaellowe3665

27 күн бұрын

@@NogardCodesmith in Europe

These two are more my view point. Not to take anything away from Rising, but you give me current topics peppered with pop culture comedy, I'm in, heyoooooooo!

You talk about money, but not about financial security. Yet this is such an important dimension for quality of life.

That is some uncut cringe, right there.

Regarding the "free" healthcare, just last night I accompanied a friend to the emergency room. We got there at 6PM and after 5 hours of waiting, we got his test results. The doctor wanted to internalize him but the hospital had no rooms available, so I had no choice but to take him home. Hopefully he has better luck getting some "free healthcare" somewhere else today.

I'd rather have a service charge than having to tip.

Liberal propaganda in the simpsons? You dont say

Who watches the Simpsons? I haven’t seen it in decades

Hey, that's just Planet of the Bass with dumb lyrics.

Europeans settled outside Europe make fun of Europe.

@STho205

26 күн бұрын

Europeans who force settled in external areas have always made fun of those places...so Sauce for the goose.

The Simpsons song forgot to mention that those workers that get paid a "living wage" also have their income heavily taxed in order to pay for the "free" health care.

I don't know if I'd want to abandon the tipping system if I were a server. They're talking about eliminating pay disparities between the front and back of house. Here's the thing, as a server, I averaged much more hourly than back of house.

That's downright painful. Looks like The Simpsons has officially jumped the shark.

I live in Hungary, in fancier restaurants you should tip 10%, and a lot of bars use card-reading tools originally designed for festival food trucks, so in several pubs if you go to the bar, to buy a beer and take it with yourself to your table, the touchscreen also ask you whether you want to tip.

The fact that planet of the bass got a parody on the Simpson is hilarious to me, considering it itself is a parody

I don't live in DC anymore, but was there when the automatic service charge was systematically tacked on to restaurant bills. Yes, it definitely altered my behavior: that's the straw that broke the camel's back, I stopped tipping entirely and made a conscious effort of eating out way less.

Yeah, the song is lame, but having to tip in the US still fucking sucks and makes no sense.

@evlo8059

27 күн бұрын

in eu you can decide (but really you are expected to) so in usa it is like automatically on the bill?

@patavinity1262

27 күн бұрын

@@evlo8059 It's essentially mandatory, but you are supposed to decide and calculate how much you wish to tip. No, it's not really expected in the EU.

@TheCamoWolf

27 күн бұрын

Its not required. Tiping isn't required in the US. You can tip $0.

@patavinity1262

27 күн бұрын

@@TheCamoWolf I didn't say it was illegal not to tip. It is however socially required.

@TheCamoWolf

27 күн бұрын

@@patavinity1262 It isn't.

I immigrated to the US 32yrs ago and I've had the 'tipping conversation' with hundreds of Americans. It seems every American is 100% sure they know when, where, and how much to tip...but, every single American seems to have different rules for tipping. Ultimately, every conversation ends with the same requirement - the consumer needs to know intimate employment/ownership details of the person being tipped. It's an insane system. Absolutely bonkers. God bless America. 😂

@starventure

27 күн бұрын

Tipping in America is just a way of acknowledging that the notion of all people being equal is nonsense.

@TheCamoWolf

27 күн бұрын

Tipping isn't mandatory. Its an optional thing you do if you can afford it to give someone some extra cash because there doing well at there job.

@erichamilton8952

27 күн бұрын

@@starventure Equal under the law, not equal in all ways.

@STho205

26 күн бұрын

You don't tip the owner. You tip as you like for any itinerant server. I do not typically tip counter service...since I'm the table server and that tip would be pooled anyway, so the To Insure Prompt Service has no more meaning. Tipping in the US was frowned upon till 1918 as an old noble system of bribing for better service. Prohibition caused mass waiter layoffs in NYC and other big cities. Waiters offered to work for free to just live on tips. An abusive system of floating commission sales began.

They always say European healthcare is free but they never talk about the quality of the healthcare.

@Tespri

26 күн бұрын

It's not even free. Only for those who are unemployed.

"Healthcare is free" meanwhile everyone gets 250-500€ deducted from their monthly paycheck (as % of your wage) and everyone who makes more than 100k/year is better off opting out of public healthcare and going private.

In Crete, Greece you have to show your Covid card to enter into businesses, a lot of businesses required you to call in to setup appointments instead of doing walking as well. I got a tattoo via that way.

@sammegehee8876

27 күн бұрын

Also love the no tipping culture of Greece

@MilwaukeeF40C

27 күн бұрын

I am never going there.

@sammegehee8876

26 күн бұрын

@MilwaukeeF40C covid is no longer a thing so the covid cards are no longer an issue it's back to regular business these days

@sammegehee8876

26 күн бұрын

If you ever get the opportunity it's really nice and I recommend it

Tipping is the only moral form price discrimination. The rich people decide to pay extra for their service and the poor people get lower prices, no tipping means higher prices for poor people.

I remember in college taking an electrical engineering class. We learned about circuits and how any change one place can destroy another place. Then i took my first economic class and AGAIN i learned *EVERYTHING HAS A BALANCED CAUSE AND EFFECT.* so having seen this before this made perfect sense. I think the reason why so many liberal students can't grasp this concept is because they don't take REAL classes that show how this principle exist in EVERYTHING. Instead they take theoretical classes that are based on feelings and wishing. The government can't interfere with free markets without breaking them and causing more damage than good.

We don't need no AC - polar bears roam our streets.

As a Swede, I love my "free" healthcare, it only costs thousands of dollars each month in taxes... In addition to the actual PRICE, because it's not actually free. That is, if you get any care at all before it's too late.

They didn't receive the memo that Europe sucks and stagnating and I'm European.

Selective praise for Europe ; they have a 12-14 week elective abortion cutoff , after that you usually need 1 or more doctors to sign off , depending on the country . In Mississippi that might be the norm but not in most of the US .

Do people still watch the Simpsons?

@CleverGirlAAH

10 күн бұрын

No.

1. Healthcare is not "free" 2. A "living wage" can mean different things to different people 3. Working for tips encourages employees to provide better service

The song contradicts itself within 25 seconds of starting: 🎵Europe king and here is why 🎵Only pay for what you buy 🎵Sir, can't you see 🎵Our healthcare is free Paraphrasing Lily Tang: "Can you guarantee I won't have to pay taxes for healthcare if I don't want to buy it? No? Then this song is over."

1: there was a point in time where tipping was frowned upon in the US as it was seen as a way for the rich to get better service than anyone else, preferential even. 2: typically speaking Americans are paid better for the same work compared to europeans. The issue is that everything costs more in the US largely due to marketing, regulation, and R&D. 3: nationalized healthcare is not free. Nothing is. Additionally the service is abysmal by comparison. 4: good front of house staff can make hundreds a day in tips. Back of house staff are stuck with a flat rate despite doing more work. God forbid you are the dishwasher.

There is no free health care in Europe. You pay through your taxes. Living in Germany, I paid 650 euros (about US$800) per month for a family of four, automatically deducted from my paycheck.

It did help me see the healthcare difference, because the cringe attack sent me to the hospital.

Lol people in Europe get a living wage that work in cafes?! I live in the UK and that's news to me.

I wish this had been more than a discussion about tipping. What about all the other issues brought up in the song?

Why is reason calling socialists liberals?

@STho205

26 күн бұрын

A valid question. Americans (US and Canada) have lost the original meaning of "liberal". It drifted to left of center and, as well, conservative doesn't mean what it meant in France, Germany or Britain. Classic definition of Liberal is opposed to socialism (Left or Right) and communism, and favors private property rights for commoners, low taxes, modest regulation, free trade... However after Roosevelt in 1932, "Liberal" started taking on a new meaning. It was a code word to cover up socialist leanings and big government programs in the New Deal. Because Russia, Italy and Germany had gone socialist in the 20s and 30s...the word had a bad taste....so Liberal was substituted. New Speak.

@Incomudro1963

26 күн бұрын

I say "leftist."

@STho205

26 күн бұрын

@@Incomudro1963 just as long as we remember it isn't a line it is a circle. The 20th century taught us that far left and far right circled around to meet each other in being police states. You must have a police state to make people behave contrary to their human nature. Once you achieve it, you must maintain it, even if it becomes a new nature (as Marx and Mussolini imagined) the police class and government officials will never give up that power and retire.

@Gewalt1984

25 күн бұрын

@@STho205 yeah It's important to remember that Reason is a libertarian publication so they should know the definitions.

@STho205

25 күн бұрын

@@Gewalt1984 all politicos go with trend language. Newspeak is the stock and trade of journalists and editors from Franklin to Cuomo

2:40 as opposed to America where buying a house is totally affordable

im not one of thoes fans who shit on everything past season 9 but after being acquired by disney it has definitely goton a lot less subitle

Thanks for reminding me why I haven't watched the Simpsons in 30 years

It's like watching someone wear a skinsuit.

My favorite videos are the ones showing people bicycling around tiny places like Amsterdam and scolding Americans because they need cars to get around.

Healthcare in Europe isn't free. You're just required by law to be insured, so either you pay or go to jail, you lose your place at uni, etc etc.

@MR-uk2vj

3 күн бұрын

In France, even poor people can benefit from almost free chemotherapy.

Worse than shark jumping.

5:16 if management "steals" tips or like that shady stuff, soon will word get out and place will close.

I wonder why service is so bad in Europe?

@generalmeanguy8902

27 күн бұрын

Bullshit, services are good if you’re polite. Unless the staff are natural assholes

@starventure

27 күн бұрын

@@generalmeanguy8902 Not true. Even outside the major cities, servers are free to behave as they wish as long as they don't go overboard because they will get their full pay no matter what.

@MrGunnar69

27 күн бұрын

@@starventure That was the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Why should there be a difference between the city and outside the city? The owner can fire bad staff, they are not free to behave as they wish. There are job descriptions that employees must follow.

Good thing I was already in the bathroom when I was watching the song.

Go ahead and remove tipping culture from servers at a steakhouse, they’d explode at the lost income if they went to a flat wage. Get rid of sales commission and car salesmen would freak out. Get rid of private charity and the tax write offs and make the government handle all of it? That would be horrific as well.

Tipping is still customary in Europe, and now many countries have built-in service fees as well. And we all know about "free" healthcare and just how "free" it is. Everybody likes pointing out the few places where it works, never when it doesn't. Not that I embrace American healthcare either, but it's not like it's great here in Europe either.

4:08 servers are paid $2.13 an hour. Not $5 unless they have a sweet deal. Think about that the next time you camp on ( stay for a long time) on a waiter’s table. They might have only 3-4 tables that are sat in rotation during their shift. That means they only have 3-4 chances to make a tip at any time. If you sit forever you take them out of rotation and give them one less chance at a tip. The other folks hunting tips that never used to get a chance at one are just trying to make more money. Their company bought a premade program and they didn’t disable the tip option to try to lure folks to work for the less than living wage that they pay even to usually untipped workers.

We should copy Sweden's social security reforms. They were able to solve the issue our social security is running into by reforms and partial privatization.

They just used this comedian Kyle Gordon to make a parody song of 2000s euro music. People point and make grunting noises at stuff they know.

I dont know if its still the case, but in Hellinois, gratuity was not taxed. So servers and others in the food service and adjacent industries, pre-Bidenomics, could make bank. Case in point, Doordash was considered gratuity and I was making $20/hour tax free. Before the dark times.

The guy is wearing white socks.

Ask most waiters here in the US if they'd rather be paid a "living wage" (whatever that is) or make money from tips? A good waiter makes far more money from tips.

Europe is our past. It's time to move forward

@MrGunnar69

27 күн бұрын

US is a European idea.

The Simpsons hasn't been good in 24 years, it's okay.

I have known multiple different people who worked in restaurants diners and bars it isn't just the waiters and waitresses that get the tips cooks bar tenders and waiting services all equally get a cut of the tips at end of shifts with inflation I get why people don't like tipping anymore

Cool, Homer. Now tell us about the Value Added Tax, the cost of petrol, etc

I don't know the context, but that seemed funny to me. They launch into a musical and it's eurobeat. Then in the song they sing a bunch of things that the lowest common denominator of society probably thinks is good about europe. It's a very simpsons song. Homer kicks it off, and obviously he's a font of wisdom and good ideas. I don't understand how you could miss the satire, but I haven't watched simpsons in a while, maybe the context makes it not funny.