Non-Americans of Reddit, what is one thing you wish Americans knew before visiting your country?

It’s one of the main reasons that businesses flourish so much more than other countries.

I understand you are looking at it differently, but I am an economist and can see the value of this form of thinking more than people who are ignorantly saying it is bad.

The free market enables insane amounts of competition, as a result a slip up from a business means you can now go anywhere else and that business will close down and fail. This keeps the market very competitive and ripe for innovation and other competitive advantages. This is great and American in nature. Not saying American invented this (we didn’t) but we prescribe to it heavily.

You guys don’t think like this. Your businesses and service is low and stuck up. You do not fear this same competition as a result you are stagnated in many fields. You really on other countries to develop and push forward innovation while you wait and then receive a part of it your own. Luckily, the Netherlands are quite rich so they can do this. Other countries, end up with the grunt work of said technologies and never see it trickle down to them.

Somebody that is young, educated, and motivated: MOVE TO THE US. Work your ass off and you can reach heights economically impossible in literally any other country in the world. After ol’ America has burned you out retire to Giethoorn where you don’t even have the stress of paying for petroleum for your car :)

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