 Good day, May 40 here. So I was just walking around the lush campus here at UCLA and Watching people throw a football around Reminded me of one of the first social events that I attended when I went to UCLA in the fall of 1988 I got into a game of touch Frisbee and Early on in the game as I was leaping for the Frisbee I came down and I Twisted and badly sprained my right ankle and I Came up and I tried to try to walk it off and then Some UCLA security guy said you can't play Frisbee here and he said pointed at me for the for the reason In case you get injured the university doesn't want to get sued And he pointed at me and said it's for this very reason You know you just you just got injured and we don't want to get sued So that was one of the biggest differences I noticed between Australia and America is the level of fear in America compared to the level of fear in Australia So In America there's tremendous fear of litigation To to an extent Virtually unknown in Australia. I just didn't hear about fear of litigation in my 7th Adventist Australian upbringing and insurance premiums and all sorts of normal interactions between people are Changed and rendered much more artificial in America because of fear of litigation. So in Australia you don't go and get private Insurance for your car. I believe there's no fault insurance and the state covers it And it's just part of what you pay for your registration fees every year is essentially car insurance And so there aren't private attorneys trying to make money out of car accidents. So much less fear of litigation in Australia compared to America maybe Maybe one-tenth the amount of fear of litigation in Australia compared to America then Probably one-twentieth the fear of crime in Australia compared to America. There's virtually nowhere. You can't go in Sydney Sydney's what like the fourth safest city in the world. I read when I was down under recently So there's virtually no fear of crime in Australia. There's actually no fear of litigation and There's no fear of being without health insurance. So every Australian citizen and lawful resident of Australia is covered by Australia's Social security medical system like there's government providers socialized medicine And so in America, there's tremendous fear of what happens if you don't have health insurance And it just isn't that fear in Australia. Also, what happens if you lose your job? So if you're a man, particularly in America and you lose your job Any way that you can get ongoing payments from the government are if you can get yourself declared Eligible for social security disability and then once you get on that you can almost never get off But in Australia I can go back and I can immediately get on the doll I can go back to Australia and while I look for work. I can immediately get get payments and so There's virtually, you know, no fear of crime in Australia virtually no fear of litigation there's no fear of being without your health insurance and There's there's no fear of You know the most dire poverty and homelessness because everybody can get on the doll It's like it very easy to just go on the doll while you're looking for a job. And so There's not the same fear of losing your job in Australia because there's much more of a government welfare state to support you So no fear of hunger. No fear of homelessness No fear of crime. No fear of litigation so Life is much more set out for you in a clear way in Australia. So the educational system by and large employs tracking so the smart kids, you know get get sent off it on a smart track and Australia is the great love. I've never known says Josh So fairly early on you start getting tracked and so the smart kids the ones who are going to end up at university They go to the smart classes and the ones are going to end up tradies they go to the the regular classes so your life is much more set out for you in Australia and You also have Much more of a sense of community high social trust so high social cohesion high social capital and you have your mates There's much more of a sense of mateship and camaraderie in Australia so you can turn to each other during tough times. So I Would say that's one of the biggest Emotional differences is that there's far more fear in in America It's kind of the the downside of Americans individualist approach to life. So the Australian and the European approach is much more corporate it's much more communal and In America there's much more emphasis on individual success and be all you can be just like really go for it chase your dreams but there's much less of a social safety net underneath to catch you if you fall and People people lead much more individual lives kind of cut off from from other people in wider society in America while while mateship and in the corporate Cohesive social way of life is much more ingrained in in Australia. So fewer choices in Australia It's much more of a sense that we're all in it together in Australia so in America Life is much more divided by tribes so being an American Isn't isn't a primary identity. You're a Jewish American. You're Italian American. You're a lawyer American you're a basketball American but there's not nearly as much sense of loyalty and Comradeship with the with the wider society and I think that also breeds fear also much more dramatic much more dramatic Immigration levels in America's much less in control compared to compared to Australia Look the prices of houses have exponentially increased in the last 12 months Yeah, but People aren't in fear of not being able to buy a house in the big city All right That's not something that you tend to be fearful about so like That's like a luxury fear Now Australia is a neoliberal capitalist cap mix of capitalism and socialism So it's not immune from from the business cycle and from developments in the world around it Americans don't have a fear of being invaded All right, so you know Australia would be much more vulnerable to say, you know a Chinese invasion theoretically Americans don't have that fear, but Australians don't walk around with a fear of being invaded either so in Australia you have much more of a sense that you're separate from the rest of the world that you're You know surrounded by ocean and that other people are far far away. 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