I really really like Europeans. I love their zest for life. Their focus on supporting people as a basic human right. But in order to do these things, you need money and you need muscle. Unfortunately both of those things are obtainable on a scale of difficulty approximated by the most competitive global players, which are currently the US and China. Unfortunately that means you have to work a lot harder or spend a lot less on social programs or some mix of both.

I don’t see a way around this and Europe is suffering because they don’t seem to want to accept this reality.