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And yet Europeans have vastly higher life quality than Americans ... I wonder why that is ...
And yet Europeans have vastly higher life quality than Americans ... I wonder why that is ...
And yet Europeans have vastly higher life quality than Americans ... I wonder why that is ...
For some definitions of wealth, surely. By most quality of life metrics, the average (Western) European is doing as well or better than the average American.
Can you cite some specifics? I’ve travelled to quite a few places in Europe and coming from the American Midwest, we are beating much of Europe in most/all QoL metrics by a mile. Much larger and nicer homes, larger properties, mincer automobiles, more variety of all consumer goods, higher incomes, more wealth and social mobility to name a few and I live in “flyover” country.
And yet Europeans have vastly higher life quality than Americans ... I wonder why that is ...
Cars. Americans spend a ton of money on having cars and building car-centric infrastructure. Most European countries could not afford to do this.
As a first step in a better direction, I've changed the baity title to a less baity, or at least more obscure, phrase from the article itself.
And yet Europeans have vastly higher life quality than Americans ... I wonder why that is ...
In many ways, European countries are coasting along on wealth exploitation resulting from centuries of colonialism. North America is similar but the US in particular is absolutely dominant at the modern knowledge economy. This is where Europe in general lags behind.
Europe’s glory days are behind it. The glory days of the US are ahead of it.
Europeans have a higher quality of life, for now. Wait until the bill for the welfare state comes due and we shall see how sustainable that model is without the ability to create wealth.
And yet Europeans have vastly higher life quality than Americans ... I wonder why that is ...
Cars. Americans spend a ton of money on having cars and building car-centric infrastructure. Most European countries could not afford to do this.
It's not like any of the other G20 countries (not to mention the entire rest of the world) have anything close to "a US tech sector" or anything approaching the level of engineering/science/product/manufacturing capability of the US.
California is where the entire world population goes to when they wanna make stuff.