Look I love dumping on the Europoors as much as anyone, but even I can see that this is a bit extreme. "Decadence?" What does that even mean here? That people are happy and secure and have good qualities of life, without worrying about everything falling apart?
The US is not fine, and is falling apart. The US is living decadently on its reserve currency status, which enable things like ridiculously wasteful and unproductive military spending. Even its military spending on things like the, say, F35, require external customers in order for it to make any sense at all. But all that decadence is at risk. Decadence is good, I want it, I don't want austerity. Give me this awesome US decadence or I'll have to settle for the fake European "decadence" which is mere economic and health security without all the extra spending that US consumers get to make.
What, would you say, all these entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are doing here?
They are all trying to invent something so that they don't have to work anymore.
> They will continue to sell their crown jewels to the highest bidder, because no one wants to work.
Is this about Europe or the US?
To be fair, has it? The EU is talking about activating its anti-coercion thing, which would anyway only kick off a year-long consultation and voting process before anything happened. To my knowledge, there have been no consequences to America annexing Greenland put forward that would hit before the midterms.
What is acceptable in your circles is not relevant here. What matters here is preserving HN as a good place for curious conversations.
The US is fine. The real strength is in its economy and government system that is tilted far more to the wealthy and business than Europe, which is too exposed to democracy and orators promising something for nothing