So you know my people, and their defects?
It's not often such contempt for Americans is on display in this forum, but I'm grateful you did.
Yes, I do.
For instance, I know the vast problems of US medical services delivery, which is absurdly inefficient and incredibly expensive in the US. And, moreover, with a few exceptions, of poorer quality than in most EU countries. This is mathematically provable. That is a large part of the US economy that is absurdly inefficient.
And none of that has anything to do with how it is paid for. The US system is almost entirely paid for with a combination of state spending and government mandates, just like most of Europe.
The US simply sucks at this, and it is because of systemic social-cultural issues. All of these systemic issues you will concede in any other context.
And I know that US public K-12 education is also vastly inefficient, based on wrong-headed ideas of “equity”, which actually go back decades. You consistently fail to develop talent, preferring to satisfy progressive politics. Even Euro socialist states aren’t that stupid.
And then there are US universities ... what can I say? You cannot defend the tip-top of your intellectual class. It is corrupt and decadent, putting it kindly.
And then there is the massive Gordians knot of regulation, politics and legal constraints that make it nearly impossible to deliver large engineering projects. This is vastly less of a problem in most of Europe. This is truly disastrous in the US. That alone will be the death of you.
Been there, done that. But I, unlike most of you, can compare, so I know, much better than you do, the ways in which you fail, the problems you MUST fix.