Buy McDonald’s stock, fire the CEO and hire someone cheap.

Why do they stay in USA then. There are plenty of countries where one can earn a better net worth.

USA is an immigrant country. Non of you are natives. Do what your ancestors did. Leave.

What’s the value of your parents their house and how many siblings do you have.

You’re pretty fucked being American in that situation.

Sucks for immigrants. I’m born rich

Median net wealth per adult in Belgium is 250k euros. It’s because the housing stock is owned by families living in them. Their kids inherit that.

“Sucks for immigrants” isn’t even true. Social mobility is great here. Free education for them. But buying a house will indeed be very expensive for them. They have to pay for the current day economy. The economy that is attractive to immigrants.

Housing will always be expensive in a good economy.

Look at Singapore, it’s all owned by the country, and it’s expensive as hell.

Never been in USA, but working at McDonald’s here in Belgium while living at your parents, with 2000 euros net from a minimum wage job… Yeah after a year you can buy the house that I showed.

I’m sure you can work while living with your parents.

Having the 25k euros is only step one. Afterwards you need to build up capital for passive income when you are in Indonesia.

The cost of living is very low. the median net worth in Indonesia is 5000 euros. So with your starting capital, you’ll be ahead of the curve.

With your English, you have some niches you can do. Like working for English speaking companies. Local or from your computer.

most people that do this, go to Bali. But if you want cheaper areas, the place I showed is also do-able.

Bali is popular because more people there speak English. For Americans, the Philippines is popular because English is an official language.

My wife’s indonesian so if she wants to, we’ll go there.

likely not, because I prefer Belgium. But I’m also not complaining about the high housing prices here in Belgium. I know why they are high. It’s because people want to live here.

Same reason why housing is more expensive in Bali… People want to live there.

You can still buy a house by working at McDonald’s. All you need to do is leaving your country. Here’s a nice house in Tanjung Pinang, Bintan, Indonesia.

25000 euros.

https://www.rumah123.com/properti/tanjung-pinang/hos18668655/?price-unit-type=metersquare

I ring my bell when I pass people that won’t see me on my e-bike.

if I wanted to be a complete fucking jackass, I’d just pass them at 30 km per hour without making a sound.

I’m sure they would love that.

It’s the responsibility of the vehicle user to make sure that people know of them.

Noise is extremely useful as it’s a 360 radius.

It’s annoying, but useful.

Unless you can come up with other solutions to make pedestrians aware of vehicles. Beyond just looking. It’s extremely easy for a pedestrian to put their foot on the road before looking sideways just because he heard nothing.

I like it quite a bit. Le chat mistral does a good job

Really going full billionaire class uh

Just need to find good solutions.

We lack a translate button. Rednote and weibo have translate buttons. We need that.

There’s no central authority here. But if it doesn’t matter which instance you are on, then all the users on Lemmy are still just part of Lemmy.

On the graph I see other icons than Lemmy.

Are we able to see content from other social media? Or what is meant with that

The silent part is a bit of an issue though. For safety reasons.

How? How are you going to teach someone to be an engineer when the person can barely read?

They all have access to education. My wife can go follow a master in European and international law in the university of Antwerp right now if she wishes to do it. It’s in English.

She can follow baking classes. Pretty much anything. Since she arrived here with a bachelor’s degree already.

The older generation that came here without formal education. They didn’t speak English. All the effort invested in them was just to teach them Dutch. There’s training at vdab for jobs that are easy to get. But these jobs don’t pay that much.

Our economy is based on human capital. We are quite competitive on this. So to compete with natives for jobs, you need to be educated from a young age.

That’s just a reality. The best paying jobs that immigrants that can’t speak the language would get would be construction.

Yes, we very very very strong 🥰 big Forza Bruxelles, Belgians mightiest of all Europe. Our history is countless won battles one after another. We ruled the whole world, you know?

The part of the source you’re quoting is about 2nd generation, not first generation.

We do set a high level of segregation based on school performance. But they all have education.

I’d take this with a grain of salt. We have labour, technical and general. They each have their pros and cons. I don’t really like the way they choose who to put where. They put me in technical, after a few years I chose to go to general.

Kinda a mistake, technical had better teaching than general. Perhaps just the school, but with technical it felt like the education was just of a higher quality. While it’s ranked lower than general based on people stereotyping it.

We definitely need to get away from that kind of thing. Streamline it. All kids in the same segment and let them choose themselves what they want at age 14 instead of being chosen for at age 12.

My source says that second generation immigrants outperform native population. Simply because they have to catch up on the ladder. They see how their parents struggle. How their family struggle. They want to make the best of it.

So then they simply put in more effort. Perhaps will develope a bit of an unhealthy relationship with money but whatever.

Difficult.

https://www.nbb.be/nl/artikels/de-economische-impact-van-immigratie-belgie-0

The difference between first generation immigrants and locals/2nd generation is staggering.

The problem usually is lack of education within their home countries. That’s the difference between EU migrants and non EU migrants. I suppose.

Someone that went to school until age 14 won’t have it as easy to integrate. Mostly they’ll get minimum wage jobs. Which don’t pay taxes.

That’s why they do bad on statistics I guess.

But nowadays, places around the world have been booming education wise. Now it’s pure brain drain to get young abled people to come here.

The statistics are more based on older generations, which globally, were less educated.

These people can’t legally enter the country as far as I’m aware. So yeah, they become homeless.

Giving money to economic refugees that aren’t self sufficient is just… at best, turning them into baby factories for next generation worker bees.

My country has an aging population, perhaps it’s beneficial? Not sure.

Actually it’s easy to see if it’s beneficial. Look at social refugees. Their kids get higher education.

There’s enough war in the world though. We don’t need economic refugees on top of the social refugees.

But then again, need to question how easy those economic refugees are to integrate.

They aren’t traumatised by war, so it should be easier.

A lot of angles to look from