Twenty years ago it was quite expensive for an American to visit Europe. Typically only the upper middle class could afford it. Since then the European system has become stagnant and for every US tech company that’s ballooned in value many thousands of investors have become wealthy.

In Europe, the average person has no recourse (or will) to take advantage of the wealth creation that’s taking place elsewhere. In fact people seem to think that the economy is a zero-sum game. Economic illiteracy reigns. The public healthcare system is not even good. Anyone who can afford to goes private, and if you have any kind of problem that’s not well-known (like SIBO) you will have to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket in order to heal yourself. Housing is far more expensive relative to wages. Taxes are far higher than anywhere else (the middle class pays the majority of the taxes in Europe). Most of the population subscribes to some form of “enlightened” atheist humanism or hedonism, but due to low fertility and immigration, the population will soon be replaced by Muslims. People go to visit and marvel at Cathedrals and other great works of their ancestors but then refuse to ask themselves why they’re incapable of making anything of such value today. It’s true that the high-speed rail is very convenient, but in the end its tourists who benefit most from this, and those tourists are increasingly foreign.

Meanwhile, many words are spilled over electronic media by overly-socialized Europeans and the corrupt elite who lord over them about how great Europe is compared to everywhere else. European cities top the “best in the world” lists while the native people who actually live here struggle to improve their lives.

How long will Europeans continue to delude themselves into believing the Reddit-view of the world?