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Mimnimum wages, mandatory health insurance / vacation, ...

All the things every country in the world does except one.

Are you trying to claim the United States doesn't have those?

Because it currently has 2 of those (minimum wage and a health insurance mandate) at the federal level.

The United States have both of those implemented in exactly the wrong way: the minimum wage is livable nowhere, and there is still people without health insurance in the US today.

Minimum wage is hardly livable anywhere in the western world so that has nothing to do with US. Show me any country in Europe where living in minimum wage means anything else than poverty in all but name.

In Soviet Russia you get even more. Not kidding. Do you want to move there?

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Maybe he is referring to the fact that the Soviet bloc also gave you a job and a flat to live in.

Exactly: they give you stuff, only to have the impression you have something and someone cares. Actually, nobody does not, the citizen is just a milk cow.

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