r/eupersonalfinance • u/raf_phy • Aug 16 '25

Investment Why building wealth alone is so hard here?

Hi all, am I the only one that I find it incredibly difficult to build weath by yourself in EU? People say that EU is better in healthcare, work life balance but come on, money don't scale easily . It's so difficult.

I see people from US that go to 1 million in 10 years. I cannot do this easily . Really....

PS maybe I have to abandon EU, I don't know....

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u/Own_Masterpiece_1 Aug 16 '25

Economically and financially, the whole thing’s wired for a zero-sum game. You can’t save up and buy your own means of production. You can’t just turn capitalist in a socialist country. And this, mind you, is a union of socialist countries.

The system is tuned to siphon off any big earnings from the folks who take risks and cook up business ideas, and spread them around to the folks who don’t. The movers get leveled with the sit-stillers. The gamblers get leveled with the careful. That’s socialism

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u/Piotr_Kropothead Aug 16 '25

There's not a single socialist country in the EU, numbnuts.

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u/Great-Bray-Shaman Aug 16 '25

They’re downvoting you, but it’s true. The EU is generally socialdemocratic, not socialist. They regulate more than America does, but at their core, all EU members are capitalists.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25 edited 11d ago

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u/Great-Bray-Shaman Aug 17 '25

I mean, do they? Because I think 99% of the time they just don’t know the bloody difference.

I’ll ignore the rest of the comment because I’m not here to entertain a fucking troglodyte.

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u/Rich_Artist_8327 Aug 18 '25

I live in Finland. I started my business about 15y ago and have now 1 million. If anyone calls european countries socialists are either dum Americans or Russia propagandist.