The incentive to work has been fundamentally changed. In America the corporate culture used to represent a series of benefits that were bestowed on workers for grinding away at their careers. At each level of a career there were tangible benefits that they could receive as a reflection of their years of efforts. Paychecks no longer allow workers to afford those levels of living. Vacations, home ownership, new cars, and luxuries used to be a natural part of the corporate ladder life path. Nowadays, full-time workers are on food stamps, receive rent assistance, and need childcare subsidies. Life has become too unaffordable for the average worker to be incentivized to work. 🆘🇺🇸 #creatorsearchinsights #TikTokEncyclopediaContest

Do you remember when hard work actually paid off? Back in the day, there was this unspoken deal that if you gave your company loyalty, they would give you a life. And what that meant was at different points in your career, there was sort of an expectation of what you would have in return at those different levels. A factory worker could afford a family vacation to Disneyland every year. A supervisor could buy a new car, a manager could own a reasonable house, and a vice president could own a nicer house and travel internationally. That was the career ladder. That was what corporate culture used to look like. And if you worked hard, you could climb that corporate ladder. And that had benefits. Those were tangible benefits for your hours worked. But now that ladder is just missing rungs. Full-time factory workers are on food stamps, managers cannot afford their rent, let alone taking any vacation time. And vice presidents are burned out because they're burning the candle at both ends, trying to grind and hustle their way to the next rung of a ladder that is totally broken. At some point, the deal changed and nobody told the workers. But the reality is, at this point, you workers should know that that's what the situation is in the United States. You're tied to your job because that's where you get insurance. In other countries, that is not the case. You don't have to stay in a broken system just because you're hanging on to the little scraps of benefits that they give you. Other places give you health care just because you exist and you are human. And then the work is totally separate. But the work gets vacation time, paid maternity leave, actually pays you a living wage in other countries. And even though I know people like to scare you, they will say, well, they've paid so much less in these other countries. It doesn't matter what the dollar amount is. What matters is in the other places, those workers have dignity. They have a livable wage where they can go take the salary and have the benefits and results of having a job being able to put a roof over their own head, buy their own food, take a vacation, all of those things happen in other countries. They're just not happening in the United States. And I think it was kind of a slow unravel of the system. But at this point, it's all gone. So stop thinking that, oh, well, maybe I could be one of the lucky ones. It's no longer a lucky one. You're surrounded by people who are miserable because the system is so broken. So even if you were somebody who got health care from your job and you've got three weeks vacation time, the rest of society is not getting those things and you're surrounded by that misery. Overseas, you can have your surroundings be happy people who get vacation time and decent wages. And that's what you get by leading the system entirely, getting out of American corporate culture and finding a new life abroad. If we haven't met yet, I'm Veronica. And five years ago, I decided to get out of America. And my husband and I and our two children have now lived on three different continents over the last five years. And I teach other Americans how they can get out of America and create a new life for themselves where they are valued as human beings. And they are not celebrating just when they survive. They can actually create a life that they design and thrive in abroad.