As a white American with a good corporate job , most of those problems don ' t apply to me . I do have student debt but is manageable since I am an engineer . I have good health insurance through work , so I won ' t get into debt if bad things occur to me . I have plenty of vacation I struggle to use it all . And I don ' t think Europeans realize how much it hurts them not being able to fire people easily . The firing and hiring process sucks , so most companies don ' t fire for bad reasons it does happen , admittedly . However , I know we don ' t hire as many people as we need in Europe because it is a pain to hire them if you make it hard to fire people , you make it hard to hire people . I know my European counterparts would have a lot more help if they switched to an American system of HR policies .