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Sure, moving to Europe sounds like a pretty reasonable approach if you want to have more socialism, as opposed to revolting against computers.

Europe is not less efficient and they are not against computers, it's just a different type of redistribution politics, technology is entirely neutral in these matters.

The problem is that the size of both your home and your paycheck will be cut in half, it's always a tradeoff.



It's not so much about more socialism, it's more that the US is wrestling with problems we've completely forgotten about (e.g. decent food).

There are plenty of big homes, and big paychecks in Europe - but, as they say, 'so poor that all they have is money!'


Americans like to believe that social democratic countries just conjure up more stuff for everyone by means of politics, so they can have more benefits, or that they actually take it from the rich.

In reality it's a really tough compromise where it's the working middle class that pays the price for the equality, and then people are not so interested anymore for some reason..




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