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I hope we'll get there. I see studies and reports of things like UBI and 4 day work weeks and even basic things folks in EU countries get and it's honestly difficult to ever envision any of it actually coming to the US for most of us regular folk.
Americans are significantly higher earning than Europeans, who are bad at running their economy and keep doing austerity. This is especially true for lower wage Americans who've seen great wage growth since 2019.
They seem to be doing relatively fine. They spend less on stuff that we do and get more for it. Also, the world is bigger than the US and EU.