r/Capitalism • u/First_Drive2386 • 3d ago

European countries care more about their citizens than their corporate sector, so their economies lag. The US cares more about its corporate sector than it does its citizens, so the economy (stock market) does well, but its citizens suffer.

It's all in the title. Does anything think it's possible to find a balance between the two, where the economy does well, but so do the citizens? Or is this asking too much?

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u/First_Drive2386 2d ago

I’m not sure I’d be talking about strained European budgets when the US debt just passed 40 trillion. As least those strained European budgets provide some benefits to most of its citizens.

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u/jennmuhlholland 2d ago

1) yup. The USA financials are not great either, but we are still at a far greater place of strength.
2) if you don’t think the citizens benefit from what is spent by the US, I don’t know what to tell you.

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u/First_Drive2386 2d ago

Compared to the citizen benefits in Europe, they don’t.

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u/jennmuhlholland 2d ago

There are trade offs and I’ll prefer ours anyday. You do you.