Getting ready to take a long trip, which always brings to mind those big differences, the ones that sound like cliches today, but someday will be the basis for sweeping historical arguments
The real difference between the US and Europe is that we spend gobs of money on defense and they do not. Instead Europeans spend money on “quality of life.” The argument being that they spent gobs of money on war earlier in the twentieth century and now would rather do something else.
The US has managed to spend on the military and keep up appearances by working longer, a system of self-exploitation. We build more houses from cheaper materials with no design effort. We work longer hours for less pay. We consider this virtuous.
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