Yes. Thank you. You covered everything I wanted to express, but better, and calmer. Everyone arguing in these threads on HN - a bastion of privilege - should c

Yes. Thank you. You covered everything I wanted to express, but better, and calmer. Everyone arguing in these threads on HN - a bastion of privilege - should come live in a place like Vienna for a couple months. I've always been an advocate of the idea that a society is only as strong as its weakest member, but you can't know what you're missing in the US until you really experience it. See the lack of fear in the cashier's eyes. Experience what a society is like when not a single person in it is worrying that he or she might get fired if they miss days of work due to sickness or a child's sickness. See the total lack of homeless people. See how it can be when all the sick are cared for, and the poor have good housing -- very nice community housing, that anyone in the country can live in, with a waiting list (poor and needy have priority), keeping them from being slums. Everything here is better. Everyone here may live with dignity. That makes an enormous difference.