[general1465]

> Europe is also going to have to change its political mindset. Lavish pensions and other elements of Europe’s social model are going to have to be temporarily curbed to help give Europe the fiscal space and physical resources to fight off its enemies.

Never going to happen. Nobody has balls to oppose pensioners, because they are a massive voting block and effectively deciding elections. Europe is not a country for young people.

[toomuchtodo]

And the US is for young people? Europe is for citizens, the US is an exploitation engine for consumers.

https://www.ted.com/talks/scott_galloway_how_the_us_is_destr...

(Doesn’t touch on unaffordable housing prices, social security benefits being cut 20% in a decade when the “trust fund” is exhausted, lack of opportunity and living wages, etc in the US)