They aren't mutually exclusive in the least. The ease of buying things that the prior poster referred to is basically just three things: - A massive common ma

They aren't mutually exclusive in the least. The ease of buying things that the prior poster referred to is basically just three things: - A massive common market with few to no internal trade barriers/complications. The EU is still nowhere near as integrated and has all sorts of odd hidden complications to actually moving + selling things. - Hell, just this week I've seen that one of the indie record labels I pay attention to will no longer sell merch within the EU other than to the country they're based in, because the new EU packaging regulations make it infeasibly expensive to comply with for every country for the small volumes they move. - A common language that ~92% of the population speak fluently. - Relatively efficient logistics. None of this has anything to do with "dismantling the welfare state" and has only a little to do with differences in workers rights/benefits - giving delivery workers in the US better wages/job security would not make the "Amazon" logistics model infeasible.