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Yes, it seems like everything is illegal in America! You can't just build a hut and live simply and cheaply. Most places will refuse to rent to you if you don't make 3x the rent. Little girls can't even start lemonade stands anymore. There are tons of regulations but only for the little people, if you have the money you can get around them in America.
Hell, even traveling in America you generally can't just pitch a tent, you have to go to an overpriced KOA campground, most of which don't have easy access to downtown centers. Honestly I'd love to just tramp around America for months on end and explore but unfortunately that would make me a criminal in this "free" country.
Yes, it seems like everything is illegal in America! You can't just build a hut and live simply and cheaply. Most places will refuse to rent to you if you don't make 3x the rent. Little girls can't even start lemonade stands anymore. There are tons of regulations but only for the little people, if you have the money you can get around them in America.
Hell, even traveling in America you generally can't just pitch a tent, you have to go to an overpriced KOA campground, most of which don't have easy access to downtown centers. Honestly I'd love to just tramp around America for months on end and explore but unfortunately that would make me a criminal in this "free" country.
To be fair, in most countries you just can't pitch a tent anywhere. I don't equate someone being able to camp on my property without my permission with freedom. However YOU can camp for free in many, many places in the USA and Canada.
Lemonade stands? Really? If that's true then that is sad. I still see kids, boys and girls here in Vancouver selling lemonade, with some smart young entrepreneurs set up where they catch a flow of walkers and bikers.
I'm not sure about the rest of Canada though.
That protest made some progress. Wal-mart announced raises for it's employees. Not much of one but it's a start. Communities all over the US are also starting to take matters into their own hands by raising the minimum wage. This may be difficult for non Americans to comprehend but there are a staggering number of people against that.
Same issue in the UK just on a lesser scale. Though the labour party wants to rise the minimum wage.
A surprisingly large number of people in the Third World actually live about as well as Americans too.
Just because Africa, India, etc have it worse doesn't mean that we should be complacent idiots. Wanting a better life is what made us "First World" in the first place.
In poor countries people have lots of public transportation
in the US, if you don't have a car, you are screwed.... which requires registration, insurance, maintenance, gasoline, etc.
OK, you live in the First World, in a country that beats its chest about liberty and free enterprise. Go and buy an old beater car, and paint the word "Taxi" on the door, and pull up in front of the terminal at the airport. See if you experience any "first world problems". Or, set a kitchen chair next to a public roadway, and put up a sign saying "Haircuts -- $5".
A bit irksome for the fact that it's usually said by young liberals, often inappropriately, and usually with a good dose of sanctimony. It diminishes genuine third world concerns to some bandwagon fad that will be quickly forgotten once it goes out of mode.
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