where I live now

there's still a massive difference between East / West europe

@Darkstar damn Nordic countries and their well funded welfare programmes

so Austria is the 50/50

we really don't know if they're East/West?

Austria is central Europe I think

what do you guys classify Finland as

Scandinavian countries, CGP grey has a good video explaining the Nordic terms.

Middle East, East Asia, Western Europe, North America, and Australia/NZ are the only areas of the world where you make $20,000+ year per capita

@EzraOldenstein

no wonder these fuckers are moving here happy to be working at McDonalds our minimum wage >>> their average wage

@ANGRY person(LastxSamurai) fuck our welfare programmes

@Darkstar why?

the "world average" is 10k/year

oof

bcs we spend way too much on it

we are on debt

in debt

@thrill_house it must include purchasing power parity tho, as living costs in each individual country is different

it was like 40-50% of our money goes to welfare

I thought that's only Italy, Ireland and Spain

I've been researching wage vs. home costs for a while trying to figure out where to live in USA

North

Which in turn gives everyone affordable healthcare and education

a lot of the money doesn't go into useful stuff like that

You will be glad about that when you're old and sick, or your parents grow old.

have you seen the roads outside south

they are getting shittier every single day

so much money given to unemployed people

who don't choose to work bcs they make more money off welfare than actually having a job

fuck affordable health care / education

haha y3s

throwing money into education doeesn't fix our problems

*doesn't

Um can you give me how the unemployment welfare structure works in Finland?

our education system here is designed so that it's as valued as the community wants it to be

It's hard to explain in english

@thrill_house and not investing money into education worsens everything. Look at the US honestly, largest economy yet it's industry mostly comprises low-skilled manufacturing which can easily be subjected to competition by developing countries with a large labour force like China.

I can try when I get home

Finland has so much unemployment

When in terms of exports I mean, the US manufacturing industry is way behind other developed countries overall.