“They've been indoctrinated into thinking that if a business makes money, it must be cheating. The entire continent has Stockholm Syndrome from decades of leftist academics preaching that profit = exploitation, as if every entrepreneur is some 19th-century robber baron twirling a mustache”

So true!! As a university professor, this nails it. It’s sad — Amsterdam, for instance, used to have such a strong culture of business. But that vitality has greatly diminished.