It is easier in Europe to have people-friendly politicians because companies can’t get away so often with buying them. It is both the laws and the culture. Cas

It is easier in Europe to have people-friendly politicians because companies can’t get away so often with buying them. It is both the laws and the culture. Case in point, Stefan Löfven, who was Sweden’s prime minister until a few months ago, traveled today in the same coach class airplane I used. I don’t know if he could have afforded/used something better, but politicians in private airplanes gift the press a field day. So democracy in some parts of Europe is a little bit more the business of the people than the business of the businesses.