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Are you reading what I'm writing? How could you have and still argue that Mississippi has a better culture? I made multiple points that irrefutably prove, at least by my definition, that Mississippi is not the better place to live. In fact, by my definition which again is not an objective truth but just my place of discussion, Mississippi wouldn't qualify as one of the top 30 or 40 best places to live in the United States even, let alone the world. Because the average person in Mississippi is statistically doing worse than the average person New York or Washington or pick literally any of the top like 30 states, I'm positive across most statistics those other states are better.

No, vacation, healthcare, general safety, labor rights, these are not "soft" benefits. These are tangible facts. You are way more likely to get shot in Mississippi than you are in Germany, your children an order of magnitude more, those are not soft benefits.

Listen, Internet stranger and anyone else reading this, I'm not on team Germany. You should not be on team Mississippi. I am not arguing sports here with you and one of us has to win and one of us has to lose. I'm talking about reality, and we all win if we all realize there are many countries doing better than the US (including and especially Mississippi) in most desirable metrics. I'm not saying Mississippi is a bad place to live and anyone who lives there should feel bad. I'm saying the people of Mississippi could implement 20 days of minimum vacation and be instantly better off without the system collapsing. And they should.

To the larger conversation, I'm saying the US (including and especially Mississippi) is behind in real human metric compared to their European counterparts and people should not believe that they are similar - unless they cannot parse reality and refuse to accept facts. Pretending the US is doing well prevents or discourages real change from happening.