Comments by "T WE" (@TWE_2000) on "The Ezra Klein Show" channel.

Sure if you're visiting Western or Nordic Europe and your income is in the bottom 30-40th percentile. The median American home is twice the size of the European one and the US median income income is higher than practically every country in Europe. Even when you adjust for cost of living, welfare programs, and taxes, every country in Europe has a larger percent of their population under the American poverty line than the US itself, with the exception of Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Norway. If you're poor it's usually better to live in parts of western and Northern Europe. If you're middle class and above, life is usually better in the US. Which is why there is net migration TOWARDS the US from the EU, and its the case for every single country in Europe. Skilled and educated Europeans know they make much more in the US than in their own country. Also pretty much all the welfare programs you listed exist in the US, they're just at the state level. Some states decide to have expensive public subsidized programs and some states don't. Outside of India the largest public education university system in the world is California's UC/CSU system. Everything has tradeoffs. European countries tend to favor tradeoffs that favor the poorest part of their population at the cost of those who don't need to depend on government assistance. Meanwhile the US tradeoffs are generally more favorable for those who don't require public subsidized aid, and less favorable to those who do.
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@ruthhenry9577 never said "ALL Palestinians" are Hamas. Just that Palestinians as a whole need to accept the basic reality of the situation if they want anything to change.
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 @ruthhenry9577 damn thats crazy, Palestinians still need to accept that Israel isnt gonna disappear and they have to coexist if they ever want the blockade or occupation to end
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Actually most studies show that the people working 10-12 hour shifts are much less lonely than their counterparts working 4-8 hours. When your free time feels limited you are more likely to spend what little of it with coworkers at the bar or going to a baseball game with some friends instead of watching TV. Poverty and the need to sustain daily survival have historically been the the biggest drivers of communities and social interactions. The word "loneliness" didn't even exist until the 1800s when for the first time people became able to sustain their livelihood by themselves. Loneliness isn't a product of scarcity, it's the result of abundance.
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How is it cognitive dissonance? Israel does have the leverage and therefore can say "take it or leave it". Its Palestinians refusal to accept Israel existence and that Israel will never allow for a "right of return" that is cognitive dissonance. Israel hasn't always acted in good faith but the Palestinian leadership (of all stripes) have never acted in good faith and can't seem to except that beggars can't be choosers. As long as the Palestinians say "its all or nothing", they're gonna continue to get nothing.
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