30 days TV show

Morgan Spurlock (the guy who brought us Supersize Me) now has a TV show called 30 days.
The concept is quite simple!
In order to really understand a give situation, he (or somebody he will follow) will live it during 30 days (Here you can find the episodes' list to see the different subjects covered).

I saw the first episode yesterday, about surviving with minimum wage in the USA.
If you live in the EU like me, it is simply unbelievable that this is possible in the richest country in the world!
Earning minimum wage, you can not afford to be sick and even though life is cheaper in the USA compared to Europe, you can not afford much except basic things either.

Having a system where so many people have no health insurance, where the richer simply get richer and the poor more numerous is simply incomprehensible for me.
The bottom part of the US population are simple slaves.

OK we have poor people in Europe too, but at least they get free health care and are somehow treated more humanely, in my opinion at least...


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