Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "American Infrastructure Was State Of The Art! ...In 1950" video.

  1. All very true, the US was one of the only ones that didn't get impacted as much at home by ww2 but as we know, it didn't take long for Europe to rebuild because the knowledge was already there to do it and as for today, I think the problem in the US is the tax system, lower taxes just means not enough money to go around compared to Europe which pays higher taxes but gets a lot for it and it probably doesn't help that the US spends much more on the military and unfortunately, I don't see it changing anytime soon because the US is about individualism whereas Europe and most of the modern world is more about working together for a better future, higher taxes also seems to bring less inequality because the wealth gets spread out more.
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  2. That's true but I remember reading up that just after 10 years after the war, it looked like a war hadn't happened in Germany at all, that pretty impressive development and fair enough that the allies helped out but as we knew, the Germans were and are still very efficient. To be fair, California is the exception to the rule in the US, they are almost European like in many of its laws but I agree that the rich elites plus corporations need to pay more to help balance things out better. In the UK, the Labour party almost won the election and they were pushing on taxing the top 5% more and even though they didn't win, it seems like they might of started off a revolution, for one, more young voters voted then we ever had from what I recall and two, Corbyn the leader of the Labour party had most of the media against him especially the right wing media but he got around that with social media and it seems to of worked, both the Conservative party and Republican party have been forcing the Labour and Democrat party more to the right over the last few decades and I think what happened with Labour could work for the Democrats, so mobilise young voters that tend to be more progressive because they have their future ahead of them and find ways to get around the bull of the mainstream media. I wouldn't say Europeans have less, overall the standard of living in western Europe and the US is similar but it's how the taxes are being spent, Europe shares it out more with the people with all kinds of social benefits where in the US, money seems to end in in very few hands but I agree that Europe is more efficient in many areas but thats mostly because they have less natural resources to play with. To me, the Scandinavian countries are some I think the US, other European countries and the rest of the world can learn a lot from.
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  3. Not sure if it was largely built by the US military, I would think it was a combination of them and the German people but the socio-political aspect I agree with that, it was pretty much rebuilt from the ground up to make sure no aspects of the Nazis were part of it. I think what you are talking about is gdp overall which yes the US will be higher on that simple because of it's population size but that has little bearing on the well being of the average person in a country, I lived in New York, Manchester UK and Paris over the years and somethings are better in one place where others are worse but overall the standard of living is quite similar. As for California, I was thinking they are more in line with bigger EU nations then Norway, Norway is an exception to the rule even in Europe, as for California, a lot of rich people live there and I suspect many don't pay their fair share of taxes, irony is that the more rich people in a given area, it bumps gdp per capita higher than it is, even more so if taxes are quite low because wealth isn't spread out as evenly. In any case, I think big changes in both EU and US are on it's way over the coming decades thanks to robotics and A.I. The system we have now would likely fall apart if automation ends up taking over most of our jobs and I suspect some kind of universal basic allowance will be needed which will need more taxes, especially in the US but I suspect a bit more in the EU as well, but a lot of the services in EU countries wouldn't be needed if we had a universal basic allowance so it would likely be easier to achieve in the EU than US but I think it will happen in the US at some point.
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  4. I think the problem is the tax system in the US, there isn't enough money to go around and upgrade enough of the infrastructure and it probably doesn't help with how much the US spends on the military and when we compare to Europe, they pay higher taxes but they get a lot for it especially continental EU countries.
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