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This is mostly a strawman, since I don't see almost anyone arguing for complete equality of pay, status or position, merely that a handful of people shouldn't be able to accumulate the wealth of small nations on the back of others.

In countries in Europe, and places in Asia, there are plenty of examples where there is less inequality and the students perform better.

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Europe has many poor countries and even developed ones (UK) are having quality of life decreases due mostly to a lack of private sector success - the government eventually runs out of money without private business to fill its coffers.

Happy to be in the US especially with the global economic recession incoming

The US has many poor states. Some of which have a lower quality of life than poor EU states.

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