A deeply foolish comment, completely ignoring the fact that the US has capital markets dwarfing those of all European countries, a single national language, and

A deeply foolish comment, completely ignoring the fact that the US has capital markets dwarfing those of all European countries, a single national language, and, so far, a tradition of sucking up talent from the rest of the world, including from Europe. And... as any girl should have told you by now: size isn't everything. In Europe we prefer to buy locally produced food in local pedestrian districts to driving to giant Walmarts -- and so on across the board. We'll happily trade 6 weeks annual leave, parental leave, socialized healthcare and many other things (freedom from school shootings, lower child mortality, longer life expectancy, vastly lower inequality etc etc) for your size-based bragging rights. As for innovation: we're doing fine. The web originated in Europe and so did a lot else, including the world's largest and best regulated market, something Americans can only dream of: https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/why-europe%E2%80%99s-single-market-surpassed-america%E2%80%99s https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/why-europe%E2%80%99s-single-...