Note that the article you linked has been flagged the last time it was submitted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30569887 https://news.ycombinator.c

Note that the article you linked has been flagged the last time it was submitted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30569887 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30569887 I think that's pretty telling. You're not doing "a comparison between different economic systems" in the sense of wanting to compare trade-offs. The picture you're painting is so one-dimensional that it's no basis for discussion. It's just a rallying point for people to argue whether Europe sucks or the US sucks.