>> perfectly fine businesses being closed and employees being laid off because they don't give double-digit returns Sounds like an opportunity to me. >>empty

>> perfectly fine businesses being closed and employees being laid off because they don't give double-digit returns Sounds like an opportunity to me. >>empty shop spaces because it would diminish their value to lower the rent Sounds like a problem land value tax solves - it should cost you to hold land ad if you can't pay you should give it up so others can make use of it. >> excessive appartement rents Sounds like land value tax + removing bureaucracy around building should solve that. >>And an economy oriented only along the wishes of the super-rich. I am not sure why you think anything in EU is along wishes of super-rich. It seems to me it's to the wishes of political cronies. I can guarantee you that "super-rich" would structure it differently. >>Money is the way you "vote" into the economy, and the more money is in the hands of a few, the less the economy actually adresses the needs of the many. And yet populist parties introducing anti-business policies win all the time. It's true our parliamentary systems are terrible and undemocratic but it's not because super rich, at least not in EU.