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Maybe this explains why the US is out ahead in GDP, income, and is doing much better pre and post covid than Europe. It's not so much breaking laws, but unnece

Maybe this explains why the US is out ahead in GDP, income, and is doing much better pre and post covid than Europe. It's not so much breaking laws, but unnecessary restrictions and harassment by Europeans states. The US is business friendly. It's industry friendly. We don't needlessly harass the business of sovereign individuals, and the state apparatus isn't being used as an excuse as to exert power or influence over the population. Not to the same paternalistic extent of Europe. In Europe the liberal state apparatus that replaced the monarchies are acting an awful lot like the monarchies.

sapphire42 2y ago
You call a tax fraud investigation "needlessly harassing the business of sovereign individuals?" You're right, the U.S. is very business and industry friendly, which explains why the American people have been getting poorer and poorer while corporations and their shareholders get richer and richer.
- lacy_tinpot 2y ago
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  - immibis 2y ago
    Take a walk around San Francisco and then say poverty isn't a problem.
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- mianos 2y ago
  Americans have been getting richer and richer according to most recent studies. At the same time, other socialist countries are getting, on average, poorer. I think you may be confusing social inequality with overall wealth.
- overstay8930 2y ago
  The Average American is getting richer and richer, especially compared to European wage stagnation. I don’t think non-Americans understand how rich middle class americans are.
  - lomase 2y ago
    Only 50% of Americans have Passports. 80% in Europe. We understand it, because we travel there on, our paid, vacations. My last time in America I went to San Francisco, lots of money, I have not seen a worst place to live in my life. Americans don't understand the quality of life other places have.
    - lacy_tinpot 2y ago
      And other places don’t understand the sheer amount of wealth and freedom other people have. "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap" and San Francisco spends billions to look that cheap btw. Especially Europe. Europeans don’t even seem to understand how large America is, which is why so few have passports.
      - lomase 2y ago
        America, the land of the free... the place where I could not even walk at night because the streets were full of homless people.
        lacy_tinpot 2y ago
        Just carry a gun. Self-defense is an absolute right unlike other places.
        lomase 2y ago
        Carrying weapons for self defense was a think people had to do around here in the Middle ages.
undersuit 2y ago
As an American surrounded by Superfund sites I would like some of these unnecessary restrictions and harassment by the state. The US is so beholden to private interests we can't even repair the roads or mandate healthcare without making it into a market.
- lacy_tinpot 2y ago
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  - inkcapmushroom 2y ago
    >Do you know how the railroad infrastructure was built? Abusing the heck out of immigrants and genociding the native people, I'm pretty sure. Also this (link is https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3147 https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&...): >Construction of the railroad provided many opportunities for financial chicanery, corruption, graft, and bribery. The greatest financial scandal of the 19th century grew out of the railroad's construction. The president of the Union Pacific helped found a construction company, called Credit Mobilier, which allowed investors, including several members of Congress, to grant lucrative construction contracts to themselves, while nearly bankrupting the railroad. I don't think the corporation/government good/evil dichotomy you have made is so clean cut.
    - lacy_tinpot 2y ago
      "several members of Congress, to grant lucrative construction contracts" The difference is that I see that part as the evil. As in who is the "corrupt", "graft" and "bribery" here referring to? It's the government.
  - undersuit 2y ago
    >Do you know how we won World War 2? We as in the Allied forces? The Great Alliance? I also live within 200 miles of one of our Japanese Internment Camps.
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sapphire42 2y ago

You call a tax fraud investigation "needlessly harassing the business of sovereign individuals?" You're right, the U.S. is very business and industry friendly, which explains why the American people have been getting poorer and poorer while corporations and their shareholders get richer and richer.

lacy_tinpot 2y ago
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- immibis 2y ago
  Take a walk around San Francisco and then say poverty isn't a problem.
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mianos 2y ago
Americans have been getting richer and richer according to most recent studies. At the same time, other socialist countries are getting, on average, poorer. I think you may be confusing social inequality with overall wealth.
overstay8930 2y ago
The Average American is getting richer and richer, especially compared to European wage stagnation. I don’t think non-Americans understand how rich middle class americans are.
- lomase 2y ago
  Only 50% of Americans have Passports. 80% in Europe. We understand it, because we travel there on, our paid, vacations. My last time in America I went to San Francisco, lots of money, I have not seen a worst place to live in my life. Americans don't understand the quality of life other places have.
  - lacy_tinpot 2y ago
    And other places don’t understand the sheer amount of wealth and freedom other people have. "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap" and San Francisco spends billions to look that cheap btw. Especially Europe. Europeans don’t even seem to understand how large America is, which is why so few have passports.
    - lomase 2y ago
      America, the land of the free... the place where I could not even walk at night because the streets were full of homless people.
      - lacy_tinpot 2y ago
        Just carry a gun. Self-defense is an absolute right unlike other places.
        lomase 2y ago
        Carrying weapons for self defense was a think people had to do around here in the Middle ages.

undersuit 2y ago

As an American surrounded by Superfund sites I would like some of these unnecessary restrictions and harassment by the state. The US is so beholden to private interests we can't even repair the roads or mandate healthcare without making it into a market.

lacy_tinpot 2y ago
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- inkcapmushroom 2y ago
  >Do you know how the railroad infrastructure was built? Abusing the heck out of immigrants and genociding the native people, I'm pretty sure. Also this (link is https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3147 https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&...): >Construction of the railroad provided many opportunities for financial chicanery, corruption, graft, and bribery. The greatest financial scandal of the 19th century grew out of the railroad's construction. The president of the Union Pacific helped found a construction company, called Credit Mobilier, which allowed investors, including several members of Congress, to grant lucrative construction contracts to themselves, while nearly bankrupting the railroad. I don't think the corporation/government good/evil dichotomy you have made is so clean cut.
  - lacy_tinpot 2y ago
    "several members of Congress, to grant lucrative construction contracts" The difference is that I see that part as the evil. As in who is the "corrupt", "graft" and "bribery" here referring to? It's the government.
- undersuit 2y ago
  >Do you know how we won World War 2? We as in the Allied forces? The Great Alliance? I also live within 200 miles of one of our Japanese Internment Camps.
  - 2y ago