The Myth of ‘Equality’: Is Europe Stuck in a Disastrous, Failing Marxist Trap? By Drieu Godefridi

Yes, Europe is stuck in a trap that leads to equal misery except for the psychopaths running the show. From Drieu Godefridi at gatestoneinstitute.org:

• In Europe, inequality is generally treated as an evil, a moral abomination; therefore material equality, even if it means, as in the former Soviet Union, that no one (except senior party members) has anything, is elevated to the status of an ideal good.
• 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 apparatus of “redistribution” that provides little 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 US what Greece was to Rome: a charming open-air museum.
• There can be no “capitalism” without capital — without venture capital funds and mega investment rounds. When NVIDIA, TSMC and others invest hundreds of billions of dollars, those funds must first have been accumulated without being confiscated by the state at every turn, and their investors must believe that their pooled investment will at some point yield a worthwhile profit.
• European energy already costs five times more than American energy. That single variable suffices to justify the exodus of European industry to markets with kinder energy markets, 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 its current leaders — and, above all, to the ruinous, outworn ideas that animate them — is folly.

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