I'm not sure what you are getting at, but it sounds like you are attempting to argue in favor of "your" system over another. Enumerating relatively minor diffe

I'm not sure what you are getting at, but it sounds like you are attempting to argue in favor of "your" system over another. Enumerating relatively minor differences between democratic capitalist countries doesn't make your "Soviet Union" analogy any more appropriate. However : >> There's also at-will employment in the USA (used by Zynga recently to screw employees out stock options), and lack of employee discrimination (AFAIK it's not illegal in US to fire someone for being gay or trans, while it is in EU). As seen in Spain, guaranteed / tenured employment is not all sunshine and roses. Even prior to the most recent economic troubles, younger employees were vastly over-represented among those with short term contracts. Likewise in France. For reference, sexual identity and gender orientation are protected (or not) at the state level : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_discrimination_law_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_discrimination_law_i...