>And all of those countries are more egalitarian than the US. So average
>people in those countries are better off than we are in money terms -- in
>the case of Germany, *way* better off. How come this never stops us from
>pitying them and lecturing them on how to be like us?
Because the pundits and economists who do the lecturing are the slavish lackeys of big capital, and because the U.S. is big capital's paradise, of course!
Doug