@ins0mniak The tech podcasts I listen to all scratch their heads about this because on paper Europe has it all. Intelligent highly educated people, a scientific and technical tradition centuries old, a gigantic common market, respect for law and very little crime.
Economists and even far right fanatics would predict that the EU would crush all competition.
But the US has an X factor beyond the dreams of economists and political partisans.
It's why we alone landed men on the Moon.