The Nordic countries in every category: Yes.

@markusklyver6277

2 жыл бұрын

based

@asheep7797

2 жыл бұрын

Country with most murders?

@Jay-qb9gi

2 жыл бұрын

@@asheep7797 yes

@irenaveksler1935

Жыл бұрын

@@asheep7797 that’s not true

@michinwaygook3684

Жыл бұрын

No Canada actually has better paid maternity leave than Norway. That said Norway is better by almost every metric except for their mindset about immigrants. In a country that believes so strongly in equality there is no equal job opportunity for immigrants; this is pretty much true of all the Scandinavian countries. New Zealand and Canada are the most generous immigration countries in the world with a more level playing field for immigrants. The United States stopped being a immigrant country a long time ago; most rich, developed countries let in more immigrants than the United States (7.1 migrants per 1,000 in Canada, 8.8 migrants in Norway whereas the U.S. is only 3.2), only 14% of the U.S. population is immigrants as compared to 22% in Canada and 26% in New Zealand).

Toycats maps do have New Zealand on them, but it's usually behind his head, so the curse continues.

The UK unemployment system kind of reminds me of something someone said about disability benefits (presumably in the US) - that the more savings you have the less money you get, and it falls off too quickly, so it forces you to stay poor and dependent on the government rather than helping you become independent.

Funny how when I was little you were my favorite youtuber because of minecraft and now you are my favorite youtuber because of current events and geo.😂😂😂

@TheHolyEmerald

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Same here.

@Gutterrat69

2 жыл бұрын

I didnt realize he had one till 2 months in to discovering this channel lol

@alexj.5207

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@GamingWithKJ_YT

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha same

@wewbie

2 жыл бұрын

Ok I almost forgot he did minecraft

Argentina is inefficient at best and corrupt at worst but having National Healthcare and Universities somehow makes it bearable... also our taxes are way higher that it seem on the stats so that kinda sucks and represent the corruption/inefficiency i mentioned earlier

@santinoaldo

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love Argentina

The thing with children is though, while not everyone has children, everyone is, at one point in their life, a child

@Alex-tr1ml

2 жыл бұрын

Give the kids, a nice life, and they will, give the future kids, a nice life

@kabalofthebloodyspoon

2 жыл бұрын

Burt Reynolds was born in his late teens with a full mustache

@fieldsfamily6447

2 жыл бұрын

yes, ibx2cat is saying why have a child when if his mom thought that and dident have him he would be be making this video, it sounds fun to have a child

@anguseverist4178

2 жыл бұрын

@@fieldsfamily6447 I had a stroke reading this.

@themangospy8288

2 жыл бұрын

Who's going to change my diapers when I grow old I wonder? Oh yeah, probably the generation currently in diapers. 😁

The reason that many countries pay you for having kids is because they have to rely on immigrants to keep a stable population. Many of the western countries have birth rates below 2.1 and need people to live in the country to keep their economy and many other things stable. In fact, many countries have incentives to have children while many non-western countries have high birth rates and don't need those policies (the policies are also expensive). ps: it's official, Suriname is now Guyana

@heinrich.hitzinger

2 жыл бұрын

Wasn't it the Dutch Guyana?

@lukko6714

2 жыл бұрын

@@heinrich.hitzinger Suriname is an independent country, but I think it used to be Dutch. idk

@ibx2cat

2 жыл бұрын

It was called dutch Guyana, in the video I just eyeballed it and got it wrong haha

@lukko6714

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibx2cat I've done that at least 15 times today, I thought that a South american country was in africa, but we all make mistakes lol

@robsonwilianwinchester9726

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibx2cat make one video about Portuguese Guiana (actually it's not Portuguese in sence of being from Portugal but you will know. (Sorry I don't want ruin the mistery if you already not know about it. And SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH!!!!

The sales taxes in the Netherland and Belgium is a lot lower for essential goods like food. It is only 9% sales on essential goods.

@dominikmanthei4546

2 жыл бұрын

Same in Germany

@dipy_8767

2 жыл бұрын

@@dominikmanthei4546 Same in almost every country in the -world- Europe, I guess..?

@Starguy256

2 жыл бұрын

9% still sounds like a lot though. In California its around 9% for most things but food is totally exempt, and we have one of the higher sales taxes in the country. I see people in other states complaining that their 4% sales tax is too high

@melvingamer

2 жыл бұрын

@@dipy_8767 yes in most EU countries

@noefillon1749

2 жыл бұрын

@@Starguy256 The difference is that in Europe (or at least in France), you don't see the tax as it's included in the price (20% or 5.5% on essential goods), so people complain less about them.

If you believe every American has paid leave then you must've only spoken to a few americans about this. Most "good" jobs have some form of it, but it's can be complete shit like 1 week you slowly accumulate across the year and you may be guilt tripped to not use it at all. There's also millions of Americans who have no form of it whatsoever which is utterly ridiculous.

@stevenroshni1228

2 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing since he's not in The States he's mostly meeting people whom have time to travel.

@ibx2cat

2 жыл бұрын

Mostly not people doing service jobs, but low end desk jobs or working with children are two examples. Could be a wealth/age bias, but nobody has ever mentioned to be getting 0 holiday time. Just my experience, not my country of course :)

@jstnrgrs

2 жыл бұрын

@@b.y.2460 Where I live, teachers get two months off as well as sick time and three vacation weeks during the school year. I (an American) have never had a full time job with no vacation time and for many that I'm seeing now, four weeks plus a company closure between Christmas and New Year's is becoming standard. You may be right for part-time service workers, but that's hardly "most people who work in America".

@corey2232

2 жыл бұрын

For a full time job, it's HIGHLY unusual you aren't given at least 2 weeks off. My job isn't great, but I get 254 hours of paid leave each year, and that's starting. If you work there longer, you get more time (and can carry over 140 hours to the next year if you want). The crappy thing about many lower level US jobs is they require you to work there at least 1 year before taking paid leave. But it's still rare that a full time, 40 hour per week job says 0 paid leave.

@mrbrainbob5320

2 жыл бұрын

@@b.y.2460 your job sound like freelance or contractoring

Correction: papa new Guinea has paid maternal leave. That map is out of date toycat

12:49 no the map is right, you're legally given atleast 28 days of paid leave, but your workplace can decide whether to give you the 28 days itself, or 20 days plus paid bank holidays

Parents are raising the future taxpayers of a country and it costs a lot of money for them. Giving benefits for them is an investment to a countries future.

I'm always shocked to hear someone defend the American Healthcare system. You can go to a not for profit, in network hospital and you'll be forced to pay the standard rate with an out of network doctor. For profit insurance is the only option for most people.

@weightlifting_socialist

Жыл бұрын

It's mostly right wing conservatives and throw in some centrist liberals who are the defenders of the free market that serves the upper class well since the founding of this country, got better between 1932-1980 and has got worse since 1981 to today, thank you capitalism for holding us back in every metric expect defense and corporate profits that don't translate to society getting better or wealthier. Capitalism has to end preferably or has to be made to end the exploitation built into it for it to work, I guess it wouldn't be capitalism at that point.

It's also funny saying "forced", because while it's true, it's forcing the companies to treat humans as humans.

@dwaynethewokjohnson7773

2 жыл бұрын

Forcing something doesn’t have to be a bad thing

@Liggliluff

2 жыл бұрын

@@dwaynethewokjohnson7773 That is true, and kinda my point, and that might be what he meant too.

From a US perspective of these maps are HIGHLY misleading regarding the US. For example while it is true nationally we don't have paid maternity leave, the US is a federal system. So many of our state governments do require paid leave for employers. So workers rights, benefits, and pensions can vary DRASTICALLY from state to state. Not saying life is ideal (I actually live in the UK now for many of the reasons highlighted in this video), but just something to keep in mind when doing comparisons.

@masterclass3941

2 жыл бұрын

we have to admit that most of us workers are exploited

@Albot940

2 жыл бұрын

Did you watch the video? That was like the second most important point he made: you shouldn't form an opinion based off of just one of these maps.

@rowanpdx

2 жыл бұрын

@@Albot940 Yes I watched the entire video, which is why I said "these maps" meaning all of them. I used maternity leave as just one example. His exact quote was "there is no paid maternity leave for mothers in the United States." So my point was that it is comparing apples and oranges when you compare Federal systems vs Unitary ones. So to say there is no paid maternity leave in the US is just factually wrong. More correct statement is there no federal requirement for paid maternity leave, several states do have state based requirements for employers to provide maternity leave. I wouldn't watch the channel if I didn't think he made good and interesting points.

@Albot940

2 жыл бұрын

@@rowanpdx fair enough 🙂.

@AlmightyDude420

2 жыл бұрын

@@rowanpdx even in states with no mandated parental leave, companies will still offer it to be competitive. Especially with the huge job shortage in the US right now, companies are offering plenty of benefits to get people to work there.

The median paid vacation full time employees in the US receive is 10 days. Also my dad (American) was unemployed for a couple months last year, and he has STILL not received his unemployment. He sat on hold with unemployment for HOURS multiple times last year and never heard anything from them (except it was still processing). Finally, he finds out his account got flagged due to a fraud claim he had to make a year ago (someone was impersonating him). He was never told or asked to produce any documents until this past month.

@MrAsianPie

2 жыл бұрын

When he was unemployed, was he actively searching for a new job? The US doesn’t count jobless people as unemployed if they are actively searching for new employment during that time.

@lincolnabraham4695

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrAsianPie yes obviously, he was laid off and it took him a while to find a new job. And what do you mean lol? That’s literally the definition of unemployed. From the gov.: “People who are jobless, looking for a job, and available for work are unemployed.”

@1mol831

2 жыл бұрын

Man, USA seems shit

@MrAsianPie

2 жыл бұрын

@LincolnAbraham If he was unemployed, but wasn’t doing anything to find a new job, then the government would’ve listed him as “unemployed”. I get your upset that he practically got screwed over, but that’s just how it was set up. Do we need to change, I don’t know, I’m a libertarian and against government overreach in the market. Do I find it annoying that only the sacks-of-shit with no future career aspersions get benefits? Yes. Do I get where the federal government is coming from? Also yes, they know that jobless people seeking a job aren’t going to be an extra strain on the over stretch welfare system in the short term. So why add to that strain. Here in the US anything government-related is a hellish balancing act between the person, any sort of private entity, the local government, state government and federal government. Republics, unfortunately are not very efficient systems when it comes to resource management. And in the my country’s case where it is several republics vying for more authority than the others, comprises must be made.

@MrAsianPie

2 жыл бұрын

@LincolnAbraham Sorry for the rant

In Switzerland there was an Initiative about should there be a Paternity Leave and the Swiss Citizens voted for yes. So this map is a bit outdated :3

@xfrostyresonance8614

2 жыл бұрын

Finally some love and support for the dads

@dwaynethewokjohnson7773

2 жыл бұрын

Switzerland is the best country on earth! Low taxes, big individual freedom, liberal gun laws, low crime, best healthcare in world, great education, a good immigration system, beautiful nature, No EU and a strong military

@nApucco

2 жыл бұрын

Yes we voted yes... but it's only for a single (1) week of paternity leave. Switzerland is still way behind the rest of Europe. And for some strange reason some people are even proud of it... blind patriotism.

@MoempfLP

2 жыл бұрын

@@nApucco we voted for 2 weeks. If you want to have kids you should make sure have the financial resources to cover your leave beforehand. Having kids but no money is a bad idea.

@harmsy1296

2 жыл бұрын

@@dwaynethewokjohnson7773 seeing liberal gun laws and No EU as a positive thing is pretty weird in my opinion... But yeah switzerland is great.

The USA spends so much money but as far i have heard they have a terrible system. Thus it seems their system is really inefficient.

@nebulaone908

2 жыл бұрын

Medical care is great! It's just the cost that kills you. With health insurance (which is also expensive) the cost of medical care is less and more affordable (sometimes, it depends on what kind of health insurance you get).

@Jupiter__001_

2 жыл бұрын

@@nebulaone908 Plus, if one is part of the upper working-class (engineers etc.), the company will usually pay for one's medical care, or so I am told.

Haha USA -A British person

@Gaeisok

2 жыл бұрын

Haha USA - an Irish person

@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone laughs at America

@joegonzales1932

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 yeah because we elected Biden

@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96

2 жыл бұрын

@@joegonzales1932 you elected Kamala imho, Biden doesn't pull any strings, he's a scapegoat

Other people having children benefits everyone because they are the ones that are going to pay taxes for your retirement in the future

@biggibbs4678

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly people people claim the worlds overpopulated but who's gonna be their nurses and doctors in 40 years if nobody has kids?

@samdherring

2 жыл бұрын

The sentiment is nice but I disagree. Don't have kids if you can't afford it and plan for your own retirement without expecting the government to care for you. Why am I paying baby daddy tax when I have my own retirement and children to care for?

Things i learned in this video: 1. the us somehow spend the most money on earth on healthcare while still being bullied for their shitty healthcare 2. my life in norway will be pretty good

@TheKeystoneChannel

2 жыл бұрын

While getting the least proper care and have the most unhealthy people too

Public spending on child care directly leads to those children being more productive adults. Its good for society whether you have kids or not. The lack of child care in the US is showing now with how dramatically College enrollment is down. Even adjusting for likely pandemic related disruptions its fallen by over 25% in just the last 3 years. Less than 1 in 4 High school graduates are going on to college now, down from 2 in 5 in 2000.

@biggibbs4678

2 жыл бұрын

less college enrollment means people are getting smarter.

@MrAsianPie

2 жыл бұрын

I think avoiding modern college is smarter than going to modern college

@MidwestArtMan

2 жыл бұрын

With the insane prices they have, I'd say it's better to not go to college unless you have a specific high-paying job in mind that requires a degree, like civil engineer or astrophysicist.

@KingPigeon891

2 жыл бұрын

Not going to college does not really mean that people are getting dumber, after all it is still memorizing and not much critical thinking Also college price are outragous

@nickbell4984

2 жыл бұрын

Is it not required in the US? You have to go to college in the UK unless you have reason, even if you fail your GCSEs you still have to take them until college will accept you. You have to pay for university here, and for many of the high paying jobs you have to get a degree in it at university. Even in university around 38% of 18 year olds apply to get into university. I'm quite worried for the future Americans.

In Australia we get a minimum of 4 weeks paid leave every year but also every 7-10 years we get an additional 2-3 months depending on the state. It’s called Long Service Leave and it’s great

@shay4261

2 жыл бұрын

ok

@1mol831

2 жыл бұрын

The tax rates are high, I believe in a maximum tax rate of 20%. As a capitalist society should not have government larger than 20%. Government should remove unemployment benefits btw, they should provide jobs instead, government should charge fees for use of government services such as the police every time instead, keep the hospitals insured though, no one is dying if they don’t call the police.

@shay4261

2 жыл бұрын

@@unityofvitality-5875 ikr. as if a country can just magically make jobs from thin air.. some people are just delusional 😂😂

@tallinex

2 жыл бұрын

@@1mol831 tax rate might be higher but so are the wages

Great video

UK is actually 28 days because include 8 bank holidays and if you work bank holidays it has to be incorporated elsewhere.

@jake_wilkinson

2 жыл бұрын

And 20 days is the lowest and not that common. A lot of jobs are 25(33) and some up to 30(38).

Two things: First: Access to sex education, contraception meds, and abortion is all heavily limited or fairly high-priced in many parts of the USA. Especially in poor (and Red) states. Which makes our lack of child subsidies a very very big problem. People could choose not to have sex at all, I suppose, but that's not a realistic expectation. So what you end up with is a lot of poor people having a lot of unplanned kids and having to raise them without any financial assistance. And then people wonder why so many Americans are unhealthy and ignorant compared to Europeans. Second: No. Two weeks of paid time off is not even close to universal in the United States. Mandatory overtime for salaried work is almost universal and taking time off is often heavily discouraged even if it's technically allowed. Work culture in the US is really toxic in most places and employees are routinely burnt out and then discarded.

"things could be worse, you could live in Belgium" me watching from Belgium: 😭

@mod3no

2 жыл бұрын

Oh man, sorry. How do you survive there?!

@dragonli1y

2 жыл бұрын

I’m so sorry about where you live 😞

@ibx2cat

2 жыл бұрын

List of reasons to be excited about living in Belgium:

@Juanthar

2 жыл бұрын

@@mod3no well we watch the news it's our national sad soap also we don't really survive

@Juanthar

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibx2cat honestly, good food and it's not the UK or France😂😂😂

"things could be worse, you could live in Belgium" me who lives in Belgium's worst province (Hainaut) : ._.

Fantastic videos... Love your work on this channel!

Love your videos

Omg toycat noti!!

In the UK it’s 28 days of paid statutory leave. 8 of those are usually bank holidays but they don’t have to be.

@onlineo2263

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I was wondering why he said 20 days.

@dominikmanthei4546

2 жыл бұрын

I think in these maps or comparisons between countries bank holidays often get excluded. It often says 20 for Germany(excl. public holiday) or 24(no clue why bc thats wrong either way) thats why i figured that

10:47 That map has a whole color that's not in the key, unless it's off screen or behind your head, which would be weird given the layout.

Oh also in the US only 11% of working age adults have pensions. Most have non-guaranteed and highly volitile 401ks, which are also fully taxable.

@Starguy256

2 жыл бұрын

At least in the UK, what they call a "pension" usually IS equivalent to a 401k, not what we would call a pension. I don't think defined benefit plans are very common anywhere anymore.

@parkmannate4154

2 жыл бұрын

@@Starguy256 Companies typically don't offer it anymore. Britain still has larger guaranteed pensions to retirees than the US equivilent, Social Security

@P3rasc0

2 жыл бұрын

@@parkmannate4154 yes but there are equal amounts of people in Britain compared to just two US States. Pensions and Social Security are two different things. In the US one could ultimately be collecting 1 or more pensions and at the same time be collecting Social Security

@parkmannate4154

2 жыл бұрын

@@P3rasc0 Public pensions in the UK, come from the government to retired people based on how long they worked. Explain how thats different from Social Security exactly

@P3rasc0

2 жыл бұрын

@@parkmannate4154 read what I said after I said they are two completely different things. But yes if YOU are offered a public pension and no social security and I am offered no public pension but social security they are ultimately the same thing.

For Healthcare in the US, the US government with the ACA said they were going to cap the amount a person has to spend with obama care. the problem is that it didn’t stop companies from raising premiums. So basically what happened was people were still paying the same lower prices, but the US government had to subsidize the private healthcare sector because they were inflating their prices to extreme levels. That’s why in the US you see people get out of cancer treatment and no healthcare with a million dollar bill. The affordable care act helped out people who had healthcare, but the people who still weren’t covered suffered the most.

I’m an American, most people I know don’t have paid leave. I have 2 days paid leave.

Imagine living in Belgium...

I find it funny that toycat's head always blocks New Zealand

@Vitamortis.

2 жыл бұрын

yep Oceania in general

@ibx2cat

2 жыл бұрын

Are we sure New Zealand really exists?

@hughreid5303

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibx2cat I'm pretty sure french people don't.

@Vitamortis.

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibx2cat yeah have you ever seen someone from new zealand? in person? no, therefore, it's fake.

I dare you to find a town in Canada without a liquor store and/or a Tim's.

There's also money specifically for groceries, telecommunications, discounted transportation, public housing and government vouchers for private housing, the list goes on.

Canada may only have close to 10 major cities, but at least its better than belguim.

@janmamu8721

2 жыл бұрын

Canada doesn’t exist

Defense spending is important for Britain as the country is a key component in the global security network. Much of today’s free trade is made possible by far flung British bases and territories.

@samporter5934

2 жыл бұрын

I’m uninformed about Britain’s role in free trade through their bases and territories could you explain in more detail?

@TheLocalLt

2 жыл бұрын

@@samporter5934 free trade is mostly made possible through freedom of navigation operations, such as in the South China Sea, all of which are made facilitated by allied navies such as American, British, French, Australian, in recent years Indian and Japanese, etc. These countries control the world’s oceans, take a look at the Apolitical World Map (and that doesn’t even show military bases, with those listed as well the control would look even more firm.

@NeostormXLMAX

2 жыл бұрын

@@samporter5934 hes lying, britan doesnt do any free trade. "free trade" means threatening third world countries with unfair treaty's and policies which are more favorable to the usa or england

Let me guess Scandinavia is gonna be on top of every good statistic again?

@TheSofkujepanen

2 жыл бұрын

+Finland

Hey, can you make a video about which countries west(ern) europe consists of. I see alot of different awnsers on the internet.

Is the unemployment benefit really better in usa compared to uk? do the numbers for usa include rent, health care, dental, electricity and public transport costs? if they do then usa is definitely not better. in uk all of that is extra unemployment benefits added on top.

@ibx2cat

2 жыл бұрын

Applying for all those other things have their own set of stipulations and paperwork, making entire categories of people ineligible

@kohZeei

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibx2cat so they can apply for all of that in usa as well on top of the 200-800 dollars per week? if so then, holy shit..

taxation there are taxes like land rates and water rates and fuel taxes that are different in each country too, some countries don't have road tax for example.

Things I learned in this video: (1) UK has awful unemployment protections. (2) Ukraine's twitter feed

Damn that chart makes me want to move to New Zealand

You need to do a video about Turkey/Turkiye 🤔

Children cost money. Your parents raised you Toycat. They presumably got child benefits and then spent money raising you, so you kind of already got child benefits.

Australia doesn't have many unemployed. That would result in the opposition getting voted in. No instead we have 1/3 unemployed, 1/3 non-participants, and 1/3 doing mandatory manual labour for less than what the minimum wage would earn them (in benefits) which is totally employment. Unemployment figures were at an all time low during the mandatory lockdowns, which was a laugh when those headlines came out.

So do you get more PTO over time or is it just a set amount? I know people with 8 weeks PTO in the US and ive been at the same place now for 10 years and i get 6 weeks. To be honest i struggle to use that many, usually they force me to use up old days

As an American I've never had guaranteed paid time off in any job. One job that I didn't get through the full probationary period on was going to offer me a week . I can guarantee you the people working at McDonald's and Taco Bell are lucky to get anything paid. They're lucky to just get time off approved at all. Another thing is the company can just decide that you can't take that time off or punish you in some way for using your paid time off.

@Allaiya.

2 жыл бұрын

Really? With the exception of cashier/retail jobs, I've never had a job that didn't offer PTO.

Hey toycat, would you mind shifting the facecam to the left of the screen? You keep removing NZ from the map. (Assuming we're on it.)

@ibx2cat

2 жыл бұрын

Would you prefer me remove Chile? Nah it might make sense for these sorts of map videos yeah

@simonteesdale9752

2 жыл бұрын

@@ibx2cat Thanks! Some of the maps have a huge void to the west of Chile. Others put the legend there, so it's worth looking at, but honestly not a big deal. Alternatively, just move the cam up and to the left a little bit to cover our west island instead. It's not like there's anything of value there.

I played summer baseball for a college team in Kamloops lmao

The maps looks at the US Federal government spendings only, I don’t think it factors in State and local requirements, nor private employer benefits, which is where Americans really get our benefits from. Employers need to be competitive with each other to attract good employees so they’ll offer competitive wages and benefits. The maps no where near represent the reality for the average American citizens. I had cancer and was completely treated for it, and paid very little to almost nothing, thanks to my private insurance.

@dominikmanthei4546

2 жыл бұрын

Someone with a job with no benefits and no or bad health insurance would likely get shit treatment and would still get broke due to it, essentially ruining

@dominikmanthei4546

2 жыл бұрын

ones life because ones poorer, thats why universal healthcare is, in my opinion, essential

@phillbosque2183

2 жыл бұрын

@@dominikmanthei4546 Yeah if you're broke your screwed, however, by law healthcare providers cannon deny anyone healthcare due to their inability to pay. The homeless are always in-and-out of the hospital regardless. The benefit of healthcare being privatized with multiple insurance and privately owned hospitals is that it lets them be competitive and innovative in their treatment and methods, whereas a nationalized system will stagnate without competition, and will have low tier health care across the board. The downside is, if you're unable to get insurance you're denied access to preventative health care, like checkups, and it allows for many hospitals to cut corners in some areas to maximize profits, since they are a business. In the US it is the law to have car insurance, and anyone can get health insurance online, takes minutes to sign up. Why is the same system not set up for health care. It should not be tied to an employer offering it, it should be open and available to the public- and, i think, there should be a basic health care available for low-income/no income citizen that meets the most basic of needs. As it is for those without healthcare, small medical issues evolve into major issue, which could of been avoided at an earlier stage, which would save everyone time, money, and stress/pain of the patient if resolved earlier.

@dominikmanthei4546

2 жыл бұрын

@@phillbosque2183 preventive check ups should lower the expenditure in the long run, thats why here in Germany u get money or small gifts from the insurance companies if u do these check ups regually(or however u write that lol)

Most companies in the US provide paid maternity leave that lasts about 3 months

@Gewehr_3

2 жыл бұрын

What a lie that is. Maybe for people that already make 6 figure incomes, sure but for 99% of us? Nah you're dreaming

@somerandomviewer7803

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gewehr_3 most people don’t realize that most anyone can get a leave for x amounts of paid leave through FMLA even as a technical “ paternity leave”. X person request the form for FMLA then take it to either your doctor or the person you are caring for doctor and they will fill it out for you to return to your employer. So In the case of fmla the doctor essentially decides your time off. When my husband last did it for my hysterectomy it was 60% of pay still. He also was able to get off same method during each of our childrens births he got 4 wks technically on each of them even though he went back to work sooner. Though timing might be different depending on the recovery length of your care. FMLA is available to any company with at least 50 employees.

I work in the danish public/private unemployment system, and it is wierd, but I like it. You pay around 60€ a month, and if You lose your job You get 83% of your old salary (with a cap of 2600€ pr. month) for up to two years. There is also a purely public system, but You can only use that is You have no personal wealth above 1300€. So no savings and nothing major You Can sell.

Great video, I like how you explain the nuances with each type of benefits.

i love how he is happy about this subject :)

Two corrections for Argentina. VAT is 21, not 22 (and it's been since at least the 90s). Paid Leave is two weeks from scratch, but it adds one week every five years on the job. I've been in the same one for eight years, so last year and this one I got three weeks, and from 2024 it will be a whole fekin month.

In late March 2020 COVID stimulus added $600/wk to regular unemployment benefits (to make it on average 100% wage replacement) thru July 2020 and expanded who qualified.. It was then on and off $300/wk supplement thru August 2021.

3:28 My aunt has been unemployed for over a year now and she’s been getting 400 KD ( 1,325 USD ) every month ( this is true for every citizen the graduates high school, yet Kuwait isn’t green on the map ? + we have public health care ( Arguably the best in the Arab world ) , public housing , and free education ( arguably the worst in the Middle East ) , oh and we don’t have taxes 11:12 my parents are paid 50 KD ( 165 USD ) every month for each one of their children ( so 200 KD / 662 USD ) but it shows nothing on the map 😬

Love your vids! But your head keeps blocking New Zealand on some maps

It’s not that the unemployment was too good it was that the job paid too little During Covid lockdown the extra unemployment i got basically got me to slightly under what I was making while working.

"Is it fair" is a distinct question compared to "is it beneficial" a good example of this is state funded childcare. Is it fair? No. Not everybody has children, but everybody pays for state sponsored childcare. Is it beneficial? Yes. Freeing up that many working aged adults contributes greatly to the economy and eliminating the bureaucracy behind determining and enforcing eligibility saves an enormous amount.

@mattdombrowski8435

2 жыл бұрын

@@a.wadderphiltyr1559 we are using 2 different definitions of "family" most of the women in my extended family work and we're getting along alright, so I don't see how that breaks apart. I don't think that children so fragile to need a specific social arrangement that has only really existed for 100 years or so in the western world. Throughout history and even today, children grow up in very different social environments and turn out more of less fine. The labor market doesn't follow supply and demand that directly because labor also increases spending power and productivity. It is true that wages are going down, but I think that has more to do with increasing automation and the decreasing power of regulators.

@mattdombrowski8435

2 жыл бұрын

@@a.wadderphiltyr1559 I think some historical examples would be illuminating. In the medieval period, children would work. Mostly around the household granted, but many would be sent away to be educated in a monetary to be educated into the priesthood. Nobility would also be sent away to work as live in servents to higher nobility. Typically this would start in the early teen years and end around adulthood. Now, they wouldn't abandon their families, but they would definitely be a minor influence on their development. For the nobility, this was the point. The idea was they would be better off if they were influenced by their betters. Fast forward to the industrial revolution and we can see child labor becoming common in factories. Some British factories had more than half of their employees under the age of 14. Remember that factory shifts were much longer in those days, they wouldn't have had much time for anything except work. In the modern era, many children are raised by the village, not only the family. Now, I'm definitely not advocating for a return to child factory labor, but they did survive to become functional adults. I don't think that daycare is very bad in comparison. The idea that children must be raised by the family exclusively is an advent of the early atomic age (as is psychology, which is why many psychologists advocate for atomic era dynamics). You have the ability to eat seasonal fruit at any time of the year. You have the ability to eat tropical foods, such as bananas and chocolate, at an inexpensive cost. You can buy technology that would astounded your ancestors. I said that purchasing power and productivity went up, not income. Wages have been more or less stagnant since the 1980s. There are 3 major reasons why wages are stagnant. 1) you are competing with people half a world a way who can do your job for 10% of your pay, 2) you are competing with robots who can do your job for 1% of your pay, and 3) the death of the union means you are competing with the people around you who can do your job for slightly less money and without the company having to change anything. If you look at *productivity*, that's been a more or less straight line going up since WWII when, amongst other things, women entered the workforce in a major way. On that topic, how do you figure for 1950-1970, when wages were simultaneously going up and more women were entering the workforce? Yes, some regulations make it difficult to do things, but regulations are also the reason we have a 40 hour workweek, no child labor, rivers that don't catch fire, meat plants where workers don't occasionally go missing, why acid rain suddenly stopped,, and why it's usually illegal to pay someone less than $7.25/hr. Regulations play an important part in how society runs itself and it's not unreasonable to say that we could use a bit more.

About annual paid leaves in Nepal we have too much religious holidays 😂😂

Correction: Suriname (South America) has paid maternity and annual leave similar to Europe.

A big thing to remember when talking about stuff like paid leave and maternity leave in like India is that 90% of the population is not covered by any employer benefit as they are considered informal workers (or referred specifically in the Indian context as "unorganised" workers) as their jobs are in organisations which are not operating under any official legislation, so in reality all those benefits only apply to the small section of the population that is either employed on a permanent basis by the government or by larger private companies. As for stuff like child benefits I do believe some states like Odisha have direct cash transfer schemes for having children, but I suppose there is no national scheme of that kind. Unemployment benefit is even more complicated, there is no unemployement subsidy of the kind seen in western countries, only thing coming close to an unemployment benefit is NREGA which only covers rural areas where basically the government guarantees a person 100 days of employment or 100 days of wages if they couldn't assign the person a job.

9:04 That's Suriname, not Guyana! Great video, by the way!

The reason why America has high Healthcare spending is because there are no regulations on prices for procedures and medications. That's why all medications are 10x more expensive here than anywhere else in the world.

i watch you to pretend i'm studying

Love the shirt eh 👍👍

1:50 i thought conutries like KSA, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Brunei, Oman would score higher but nope and some of them were forgotten it seems while a tiny place like Malta even gets seen, i guess no data on the other places. In alot of these countries the Citizens get pampered alot by their Government and don't have to work or are super picky with work so that most essential jobs and tougher work like at Hospitals are done by foreigners, for example many doctors and hospital staff from Europe and Asia in KSA, Qatar, UAE etc.

@LegendNinja41

2 жыл бұрын

so i think this map is not really correct.

How is this channel not way bigger? And how has the USA not taken Canada and Greenland yet?

In Japan, government does very little, most things are public or private insurance, which ends up costing more than most other countries, especially for poor people.

What is a private pension? Is it like superannuation?

@ibx2cat

2 жыл бұрын

I believe that is the Australian term for a private pension yeah

Finland's retirement system was built in a time when people expected each generation to be bigger than the previous one. That's just not reality anymore. My parents generation paid 5% for retirement tax, my generation pays 25%. Politically active demographic is skewed towards the older generations, which means if you lobby for changing the retirement system, you don't get votes, because older people want to keep their benefits. My parents retired a bit over 60 years old, I have zero chances for that. As a programmer I may be able to work right till death, but I don't know how a 80 year old nurse would be doing.

@tieman3790

2 жыл бұрын

Retirement is a huge issue in western nations. We have so many old people. Im pretty sure we will need immigrants

@EstViking

2 жыл бұрын

@@tieman3790 or just make more babies? I think people withouy children should be taxed.

@PainterVierax

2 жыл бұрын

@@EstViking In France, parents have a tax reduction and social care benefits depending of the number of children/elders they have to financially support. Maybe Finland has the same system. The problem OP points out is also very hard to reform because decreasing the benefit of this kind of retirement system means that the actual generation of workers will barely see the benefit of it. By slowly disrupting those social benefit in a neoliberal way, now governments are increasing the gap between the richest and poorest people.

@tieman3790

2 жыл бұрын

@@EstViking wealthy people get less children. They just dont want to. There are already programs in Europe when they benefit people with children. I believe it works. But won't be enough. Will still need more people

@EstViking

2 жыл бұрын

@@tieman3790 no, people who do not make children get wealthy. They have more time for their carreers, they spend less money on their family ( they can invest the money that is spent on children otherwise ) and when they grow old, their pension is being payed by the children of other people. Thus, childless people are a cancer to society. There should be a tax, so that people without children pay to the society, so that people with children would get more benefits.

in canada claiming EI really isnt that hard, you submit your ROE's if your employer didnt do it for you, you file a claim and within 1 day to 2 weeks they accept it and tell you how much you get every 2 weeks, then u file your claim every 2 weeks telling them if you worked during that time and if so how much u earned (cus if he didnt earn much ull still get your employment insurance) its a really streamlined process

7:38 in germany not everyone is in the Statutory Health Insurance. civil servants and self-employed Have to be Privately insured

Totally unrelated but which side of the bed do countries prefer the most?

While the U.S has weak social nets for a developed country, there are benefits offered in certain states - for example, Washington and California do mandate paid paternity/maternity leave, sick leave/vacation and California covers certain diseases like cancer.

@somerandomviewer7803

2 жыл бұрын

Every one can get them in the u.s they just fall under FMLA for most companies and most people don’t realize that. I think a lot of companies rely on it because in reality FMLA covers more situations than just pregnancies and post pardom care but it’s a pain in the rear for people to apply for so a lot don’t even try.

Even when New Zealand is not left off the map it still manages to get obscured behind your head.

9.08... wtf dude! That's Suriname NOT Guyana, whatever you want to say! Btw having and raising children ain't easy... parents and babies need to bond in order to bring up balanced future humans. The pope is worried about people having pets instead! Lol

@ibx2cat

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, embarrassing on the spot mistake! Haha

0:21 Jokes on you world (except Oman and Kuwait)! America doesn’t have a federal sales tax!

@eavocado5890pppj

2 жыл бұрын

Also qatar 🙂

@samdherring

2 жыл бұрын

State sales taxes can be worse than those in Europe.

9:24 the map is outdated. Switzerland has a paid paternity leave by now.

idk why did i read the title as "Which Country Has The Most Social Credits?" guess to many Zhong Xina memes....

The child argument is self-defeating because you were a child and in fact everyone starts as a child. A child cannot really earn money until they have gained the basic skills, hence they need funding and the better job a government does in providing a good childhood, the better chance that they will repay in taxes. I was one of four children - we all have well paid jobs and pay a shed-load of taxes that you benefit from today. :)

Is there a map of the word for butterfly?

6:47 ALSO PANAMA AND COSTA RICA

Not everybody has children, but everybody's parents did.

20:45 that one got reality way to fast! 😅 And it is correct dare I say!

Well, this was a fun video to watch as a belgian 16 year old who in a few years will have to deal with the taxes we have

Doesn't "verified" on Twitter just mean a real person with a big following?

I have to say, NationStates can be a fun way to explore different policies

4:59 I see Toycat is still traumatized by Jeff.

"Just remember, things might look bad for you, but it could be worse, you could live in Belgium." -Some bloke in 2022

£75 is one night in a B & B in 2016

actually the state of kerala in india has more social security and benefits along with better workers rights

@mrsauceman5721

2 жыл бұрын

Aren't those the guys that have a socialist system?

your massive head covered new zealand for the entire video