The more European point of view is that companies are run by greedy people on who we have no control and we need the government to keep those in check. We have control over the governments and it's O.K. to take them down by force from time to time.
Mass protests are a thing and we vote quite often on who are those "government people", what control we have over the companies? It's very scary to let some businessmen to run the the stuff that our lives depend on. Why trust Musk, Gates, Tim Cook or any other magnate act in our benefit when they all show monopolistic tendencies, profit over human lives and rent seeking?
I don't know if the Europeans or Americans are right about it but overall it appears that the Europeans are having it better despite the stats about money showing smaller amounts of it.
The US is one of the oldest democracies on earth.
"You can give the government infinite power, we will do a revolution, no big deal."
Do you have any idea with how much suffering each revolution has been paid for?
And remind me again how the revolutionaries overthrew Nazi Germany?
The sowjet bloc created decades of suffering and blood but according to you that's fine because we can take them "down by force from time to time"?
It's just difference of attitudes. Europeans tend to trust the government more than the corporations.
No need for ridiculous examples, for every bad politician example there exist a bad corporation example. You say nazis, I say Bhopal disaster. No need for that, at least the Nazis payed dearly for it. Corporations are unaccountable.
>And remind me again how the revolutionaries overthrew Nazi Germany?
Remind me how the Nazis are doing these days?
I don’t remember electing you to represent the point of view of “we the European people”.
I hope I was able to demystify this situation. You are welcome.
> The more European point of view
Its almost like you are discussing about objective facts.
Riots don't necessarily need to achieve an objective. It creates a political and economical cost to politicians. It means that you can't simply ignore the minority only because you currently have a majority, so it forces them to consider a compromise good enough. That's not always possible but it's essentially what separates France from Turkey. In Turkey, Erdogan wins the elections by %51 and completely ignores the %49 because they can't win an election and can't disrupt the public anymore.
>You are naive if you think Europeans have any semblance of control
Who do you think has control?
For some really stupid reason, but yes. We shouldn't trust our governments as much as we do.
> at least the Nazis payed dearly for it
If you mean most of Europe paid dearly for that, then yes.
> Remind me how the Nazis are doing these days?
Surprisingly well and some are even on the rise, why do you ask?
What a perfect comparison for how toothless corporations are compared to governments.
Americans don't think politicians are a different breed of people, they treat them differently because their position in government gives them a lot more power and impact than corporations.
> Who said anything about giving government infinite power?
Infinite power is an exaggeration but EU governments are giving themselves broad surveillance powers while directing your attention at behavioral advertising.
The US is best understood as a very flawed democracy, somewhere between the extremes of actual authoritarian states on the one hand and modern well-run European states on the other.
Being done by the government and not by a company doesn’t change a thing. Maybe except that if it was a company, they would have monetize it better I guess.
Antisemitism was and sadly is very widespread in Europe.