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I appreciate your civility, and contributions to HN over the years, but also recognize the unAmerican nature of your ideas. What concerns me is that your ideas are infecting our young people.Call that payback for American ideas infecting whole generations on the "old continent" :). My generation grew up watching US television shows.
Seriously though, HN may hosted by a US company, but the community is thoroughly international. Ideas from all around the world are present here, and are free to mix. That's, in my opinion, for the better. Neither Europe nor the US are perfect places, so one shouldn't be too attached to their current form and tradition. I believe that the job of each generation is to try and make the world better for next generations, and that involves exploring ideas to see if some may work better than the status quo.
BTW., while you say I have European perspective, and I can't deny having some European bias by virtue of living there, the ideas I'm pushing I developed reading American thinkers. I really don't read much of our "domestic" stuff, and probably 90+% of my media and knowledge consumption is American. So you may be surprised that many of the things I say are already considered by people in your country. They're not "European" in nature.
If I can take this chance to infect your mind with another idea, consider this: as an American, you care about your freedom (particularly the so-called "negative liberty"). But the free market doesn't care about your freedom at all. It cares about profits, and optimizes very strongly for that. It's not guaranteed that letting the market maximize profits unencumbered also maximizes the liberty of US citizens. The market doesn't care, and will just as happily give you liberty as it will take it away.