The degree to which Europeans are less wealthy than the US, and the degree to which that gap has been growing, is important, and no amount of rhetoric will change that. Of course calling them Europoors is rude and serious people should not do it. But the policy differences are not pure upside for Europe and there are serious open questions about the sustainability of the European social compact, especially in France. If anything Europe is in a significantly worse position now than 15 years ago.

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mns an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Europe might be in certain aspects worse, but the thing is we need to deal with wars and their consequences, as they are closer, the US only starts and feeds off them, maybe less now, due to incompetence and general no longer behind the scenes corruption.

Besides all of this, I’d rather be poor in Europe than in the US.

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stormking 29 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's because, for the past 15 years (at least), we've been under attack.

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		By...whom...? You have to be careful saying that blindly on the internet with that username. There are a few potential answers and some are reasonable while others indicate a...subscription to concerningly murderous ideologies... Fair warning.

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snowpid an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

ok and? The article is about some Americans care obsessively about Europe and their weird criticism. And you do find this behaviour in EVERY discussion regarding EU tech policy in HN. Its very annoying.

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		> The article is about some Americans care obsessively about Europe and their weird criticism. And you do find this behaviour in EVERY discussion regarding EU tech policy in HN. Its very annoying. It goes both ways. I can't tell you how many comments sections I've seen where someone goes out of his way to diss the US, even though that has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I agree that it's nasty behavior when Americans do it in the other direction too, I just wanted to point out that there's hate-slinging all around.

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stefantalpalaru an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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ifwinterco an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Quality of life is still better in Europe though, that's not cope it's just a fact.

I agree Europe has real issues that Europeans should acknowledge and don't, but americans' quantity brains are funny - to americans if it can't be measured, it doesn't exist.

Really sad way to live, unfortunately it's infecting Europe and especially the UK as well