[chefandy]

Maybe compared to ones that don’t toss mid and late career professionals out like a bag of moldy peaches when some confluence of economical and technological factors makes them inconvenient, no matter if they’ve got kids, or a cancer diagnosis, are supporting lots of relatives, or anything else like that, and then say it’s their fault for not predicting it. Maybe ones that don’t financially ruin people because the hospital they got driven to while unconscious doesn’t take their insurance? That is, if they have it because the insurance that costs more than local mortgages for many? Maybe the places that sentence someone involved in a bank heist orders of magnitude longer sentences than white collar criminals that stole orders of magnitude more money?

[baggy_trough]

What ones would those be?

[chefandy]

> What ones would those be?

If you really don't know, I'm not your research assistant so I won't go look up things like universal health care and the social support strategies of various European countries for you. If you're just trying to bait me into some sort of pedantic argument, I'm far past the age where I felt compelled to interact with people who think being deliberately obtuse is a valid conversation tactic. Either way, I'm going to let you finish this one yourself. Have a fantastic sunday.

[baggy_trough]

Many European countries have high youth unemployment and low innovation along with a typically lower standard of living than in the United States. It’s important to be aware of the downsides of leftist economic policies.

[chefandy]

You swiftly trounced the “these are flawless systems” assertion that I didn’t make.