Europe: A Socialist Prison, Punishing Innovation, Using Climate Hysteria for Power
Who in the EU will pursue these productivity goals? The political and bureaucratic class consists mostly of mileuristas (low-wage earners), civil servants, or individuals dependent on social assistance. As Christopher Caldwell argues in Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West , the European welfare state has created a system where dependency on the state has replaced self-reliance, suppressing economic dynamism and entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is scarce— few amount of the population 1 engages in wealth creation through independent ventures, and even these free minds are hunted down as if they were criminals , subject to excessive regulation, punitive taxation, and bureaucratic obstruction. James Kirchick , in The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age , highlights how innovation and risk-taking are actively discouraged in favor of maintaining the socialist technocratic status quo, leading to stagnation rather...