is the rs-take that western europe is actually a worse place to live than the us or is it more about hating smug euros

my schizo take is that i find it so odd that american media is suddenly so obsessed with trying to point out that a place with 25 days of vacation, pension, free education and healthcare “actually is not that good”. whose vested interest do you think it is that the place that has things like social welfare nets and actual work life balance - things americans are told are impossible to achieve without ruining the economy - is suddenly actually apparently a hellhole?

i guess it’s just a bit surprising bcus this sub seems quite left-leaning and what I particularly enjoy is that people here actually see through the bullshit and corporate interests of neolib media that constantly try to prevent any working class ppl from seeing how shitty their condition is. this sub seemed to be in pretty universal agreement how enslaved by corporates media like nyt really were when they covered luigi. but when there’s a terrorist attack in germany suddenly the entire social and economic model of the eu is stupid and weak? this sub loves screaming manufactured consent to anything to do with reporting on the military industrial complex or boeing but posts about the region which just objectively would give the average rs poster the better life isn’t seen as at least a little sus?