It is pointless to compare richest subset of Europe to the entire US. If you want to do a fair comparison, compare entire Europe to the entire US. Then we see t

It is pointless to compare richest subset of Europe to the entire US. If you want to do a fair comparison, compare entire Europe to the entire US. Then we see that Europe is not that much better and so called "awesome European welfare" is not reflecting into key metrics. Just to pick two examples, if Europe provides vastly better healthcare and education for free/cheap to its citizens, why is life expectancy or unemployment rate comparable to the US? Life expectancy: ranges between 71.5-89.4 years across European countries [1], 73.4-81.3 across US states [2] Unemployment rate: ranges between 1-31.4% between European countries [3], 2.1-18% across US states/territories [4] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_life_expectancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_life_expectancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_unemployment_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Eu... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_unemployment_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...