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[quote=Anonymous]I'm amazed some of you have all these stats and info at your fingertips that you can post them in minutes. It's not normal. Posting long lists of companies is also meaningless. Europe has by world standards affluent economies. America is just significantly richer. The growth in the American economy vastly outstripped the EU economies and Britain, American companies are much bigger and richer.

Anyway, you can live well in Europe. But as someone who actually lived in European countries (UK and Germany) the reality is murkier than what may be implied by the claims on here and there's a lot of apples and oranges involved. I'd be the first to agree the American poor have it harder. And weaknesses in American quality of life metrics can be isolated in ways that makes sense. We have more violence, absolutely, on the other hand 90%+ of Americans live just as safely as people in Europe. We have poorer health metrics, partly due to the poor, but it's lifestyle, not access to healthcare. And there's definitely poor unhealthy people in Europe. But your typical DCUMer isn't going to have worse health or lower life expectancy.

It all comes down to a society that traded safetyism for greater autonomy. You find more variations in outcomes. It reflects a classic political debate.

But I will conclude my last post here by pointing out Europe is also rapidly changing, despite that mentioning it clearly triggers some people. The wealth in Europe accrues to the elderly, and younger generations feel poorer and locked out of the kinds of pensions and early retirements their parents and grandparents enjoyed. Or even housing. Which, if you'd actually spent time in Europe and followed politics and commentaries in various countries, you'd know. [/quote]

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