Hi dig,
Yes. It's like the American Dream. By most measures, class is stratified in the US. If your parents are poor, you are more likely to end up poor also. Yet Americans like to think of the US as the land of opportunity, in which you can live the dream more easily than anywhere else. Funny, that.
I've also thought for some time that Wave's model suits a European political philosophy better. The absolutism of US ideas about freedom, for instance, push back against any kind of restriction, including the restrictions of security. Whereas Europeans accept a balance between individual and social goods more easily. Odd thing is that some restrictions create new sorts of freedom.
I truly believe that if the US constitution was written before individual property rights existed, they would not have been permitted. Too restrictive of people's liberty to roam. Someone would have filibustered the crazy idea.
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