[jacobush]

Yet, social mobility is higher in Europe. Also, americans can keep more of their income, if they skimp on health insurance and pensions savings. I don't think americans in general grasp how much higher quality the healthcare system is in Europe.

Example: get scorned at by your GP doctor for seeing them for a bad cold. Get billed $20.

Receive open heart surgery and triple by-pass. Get billed $20.

[Reactionary_]

Social mobility doesn't really matter when everyone more or less has the same quality of life, as in Europe. That's what many don't understand. The Europeans have essentially nullified the value of social mobility in the first place. That is why their economies are more stagnant than that of the US.

[abritinthebay]

As a European: lol no.

This is completely incorrect.

[ergothus]

Honest question: what do you think social mobility is? When studies say EU has higher social mobility, what do think they are actually highlighting?

[brainwad]

Have you... been to Europe? This is in no way accurate. There are definitely classes of citizen here, from the working class all the way to billionaires.