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** The Myth of 'Equality': Is Europe Stuck in a Disastrous, Failing Marxist Trap? ([link removed])
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by Drieu Godefridi • July 24, 2025 at 5:00 am
* In Europe, inequality is generally treated as an Evil ([link removed].) , a moral abomination ([link removed]'enqu%C3%AAte%20Eurobarom%C3%A8tre%20de%202017,de%20l'in%C3%A9galit%C3%A9%20de%20revenu.) ; therefore material equality, even if it means, as in the former Soviet Union, that that no one (except the Politburo) has anything, is elevated to the status of an ideal Good ([link removed]) .
* The "real equality" championed by communists and socialists of every stripe has simply never existed.
* Equality, as a moral value, has served largely as a pretext for socialism -- take from Peter and give to Paul-- all while funding a sprawling, parasitic ([link removed]) apparatus of "redistribution" that provides no opportunity or incentive to succeed or to keep what one has earned.
* Carriage drivers in New York's Central Park or dog-walkers in Beverly Hills will soon earn more than French physicians and German engineers—not metaphorically, but in cold cash.
* Europe is becoming to the USA what Greece was to Rome: a charming open-air museum.
* There can be no capitalism without capital...When NVIDIA, TSM and others invest hundreds of billions, those billions must first have been accumulated without being confiscated by the state at every turn, and the investors must believe that their pooled investment will at some point yield a worthwhile profit.
* European energy already costs ([link removed]) five times more than American energy... That single variable suffices to justify the exodus of European industry to markets with kinder climates, notably the United States.
* [T]o believe that Europe will become anything more than an open-air museum while it continues to entrust its future to figures such as the weary mediocrity of our current leaders—and, above all, to the ruinous, outworn ideas that animate them—is folly.

In a world where shifting economic forces are redrawing the global balance of power, the trajectories of the United States and the European Union (EU) over the coming decade (2025-2035) seem destined to diverge ever more sharply.

By 2023, U.S. GDP per capita had climbed to US $82,770, exactly double the EU's $41,420.

America's lead rested on average real growth of 2.2% between 2010 and 2023; productivity gains of roughly 14 %, and research-and-development spending equal to 3.4% of GDP. Add to that a remarkably flexible labour market, modest but positive demographic growth (+0.5% per year) and, since 2019, energy self-sufficiency.

The EU tells a different story: annual growth of barely 1.3%, a mere 7% rise in hourly productivity, a working-age population that shrinks by about one million a year, and an energy-dependence rate still hovering around 58%.

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