Why Don't Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are?
&gt; <i>In London, Paris, Berlin, I hop on the train, head to the cafe — it’s the afternoon, and nobody’s gotten to work until 9am, and even then, maybe not until 10 — order a carefully made coffee and a newly baked croissant, do some writing, pick up some fresh groceries, maybe a meal or two, head home — now it’s 6 or 7, and everyone else has already gone home around 5 — and watch something interesting, maybe a documentary by an academic, the BBC’s Blue Planet, or a Swedish crime-noir. I think back on my day and remember the people smiling and laughing at the pubs and cafes.</i>[0]<p>No, not everyone in Europe gets to live white-collar worker dream of writing poetry at the coffee shop and coming in late. See the people working at the coffee shop, the construction workers, garbage men, etc.<p>One thing I love about America is that people still get shit done here. One reason that Europe has very few innovative new companies created in the last 25 years is that everyone is at the coffee shop writing poetry.<p>An old joke  - <i>&quot;Every MBA in America dreams of starting a billion dollar business. Every MBA in Europe dreams of starting a satellite office of the American business.&quot;</i><p>[0] From the actual blog the author quoted from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eand.co&#x2F;what-do-you-call-a-world-that-cant-learn-from-itself-58ae28cefd23" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eand.co&#x2F;what-do-you-call-a-world-that-cant-learn-fro...</a>