Yes! Because their socialist-ish or simply paternalist/statist governments made things illegal to prevent "inequality" or simply to keep things under state control as much as possible, but the people want to save for retirement and they want to build startups, too.
Quite obviously, interests of people, society, and the state are always in contradiction.
People want to be rich and free.
Government wants to control and redistribute (merely as a tool of control), and make people into slaves.
Society wants equality (inequality creates oligarchy and poor masses too easy to manipulate).
So they are all in inevitable contradiction and countries mostly differ in who of them is stronger: in America, people are the strongest. In Europe, societies are. In Russia, state is.
America provides all of us a way out of the contradiction: countries can be statist of socialist however they like; people channel their capitalist instincts to America. The entire world lives this double life for generations and we are all frightened with the perspective of this ending one day. If that happens, rest of the world could be truly devoured by millions of ambitions people now seeing no way to realise their ambitions.
Quite obviously, interests of people, society, and the state are always in contradiction.
People want to be rich and free.
Government wants to control and redistribute (merely as a tool of control), and make people into slaves.
Society wants equality (inequality creates oligarchy and poor masses too easy to manipulate).
So they are all in inevitable contradiction and countries mostly differ in who of them is stronger: in America, people are the strongest. In Europe, societies are. In Russia, state is.
America provides all of us a way out of the contradiction: countries can be statist of socialist however they like; people channel their capitalist instincts to America. The entire world lives this double life for generations and we are all frightened with the perspective of this ending one day. If that happens, rest of the world could be truly devoured by millions of ambitions people now seeing no way to realise their ambitions.