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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a by-product of all American capitalism and materialism. China and India are two other major countries that share this elitism with the U.S. Europe has long moved away from the elitist education mechanism, there are schools that you attend based on the craft you to follow, although they do have rankings the pressure to chase them is somewhat muted compared to the U.S in most of Western Europe today, they do not share the same chasing the American dream of living large in McMansions with our boats, expensive cars, country club memberships, and school prestige. American society has degenerated, we need to go back to implementing more social and economic equity, that the progressive left has been talking about for too long.  [/quote]

This is just flat false.  [b]Europe is more class driven than US. [/b] They talk a good game but they live in a rigid system where there is little movement between classes.  That is reinforced as early as elementary school.  Europe is being left in the dust.  They all feel it there now as they look at COVID and vaccines and see the US, UK, and China far far ahead of them. [/quote]
As an example of this, I will always remember this story because it is nuts to me. 600 years of the same families in Italy being rich.
https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-1427-are-still-the-richest-families-in-florence/

Tax differences with the US are important. Typically low property and estate taxes in Europe. This is why elimination of the estate tax in the US is very, very bad.[/quote]

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