These are excellent points, and I think they highlight a lot of the things that are "good" about how the American labour market works, and the deficiencies of t

These are excellent points, and I think they highlight a lot of the things that are "good" about how the American labour market works, and the deficiencies of the "social utopia" of Europe. I think you can take it too far in either directions and I am relieved that you point out the deficiencies of this approach when it comes to healthcare. I think France in particular often comes in for a lot of fire with regards to having these big slow expensive bureaucratic structures. But then at the same time, along with the US, France is one of the top exporting economies in the world? They can't be doing too badly.