Why are British and American people so selfish?

Do not confuse UK with USA - here in UK we have the National Health Service and the Welfare State. We look out for each other fare more than people think and yes, we do care too. We raise millions every year to help children in need.

Here's a charity shared by both the UK and USA - Red Nose Day

Red Nose Day started in the U.K., built on the foundation that the power of entertainment can drive positive change, and has raised over $1 billion globally since the campaign's founding in 1988. Red Nose Day launched in the U.S. in 2015 with a mission to end child poverty, and has raised almost $150 million to date.6 Feb 2019

The Labour Party (Left of Centre) was founded here in England by the Methodists in 1900 - it is a party firmly based on Christianity.

As a Londoner like millions of other Londoners, I vote Labour

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coz they are born selfish.

Capitalist culture... pretending that being rich is always deserved

other germanic languages have a verb for "not minding that someone else is having or getting something" (gunnen, gönnen, unne, unde) . English has lost it.

Scandinavians are smart enough to realise that hungry homeless and undereducated people usually are not productive, and that hunger and homelessness don't "cure laziness"

Nobody lives in Denmark, we have over 350 million people here and there wouldn't be enough tax money for everyone to get free health care and those of us paying still afford to live. Denmark also has the second highest rate of anti-depressant use in the world which proves things really aren't that good there.

Perhaps the idea is reversed, some countries are not diverse so they value their fellows more than say in the US were diversity is intense. Also here the government wastes a lot of money.

Expecting your government to be a good steward of the money it collects in taxes isn't being selfish. In the U.S., the federal government is wasteful and inefficient. Why should I gladly give them my hard earned money to flush down the toilet? If it was run well, I wouldn't complain. Every able-bodied adult should be paying some tax.

In Britain we pay more tax than anyone, trouble is the collector of it just scoffs it. Billions goes into hospitals and we have an NHS. It's America that is as you say, not Britain.

The Scandinavians have a completely different approach to society than both the Britisn and Americans have.

They are more collectively responsible for society and in their approach to the way in which they want their society to work for the good of all and not just of an elite few.

A good quality society costs tax money but,such a society has more positive things going for it, that negative.

Good schools, the third best heath care system in Europa,free universities,good childcare,adequate pension, world class sports facilities and all the rest.

And in private life, plentiful high quality housing, tradesman that know their trade.Most of the Danish public utilities are owned by the public and not by the state or private firms.

Yes, in the right hands high taxes can be put to more than good use.But it needs a society that has a collective plan for its future and the future of its children.Because the money generated within the society is the property of the society and not the property of a few elites.

I don't think they are. They just think that they are better at spending their own money than handing it over to a nanny state to be wasted by politicians wanting to buy votes.

No one wants to pay high taxes.

Ask any Dane if they'd love some tax breaks and I bet most would be keen.

As for ranting about bankers, I can understand why people divert questions away from their own lives and redirect the attention to greedy bankers. The selfish few who accumulate so much wealth, really can be the cause of people losing their homes, cars or other possessions. Financial stress is also one of the largest contributors to marriage breakdown. Families experiencing hardship are also less able to provide for their children's education, so this creates generational financial difficulty.