And thanks to that, you dont need to do that 'wealth building' that you need to do in the US to be able to afford to survive.

Your arguments miss that:

- The 'wealth building' in the US happens through rapacious investment schemes that run on exploiting people, doing all kinds of things ranging from killing those who cant pay for healthcare and sucking dry those who can to overworking people in Amazon warehouses. Not to mention bombing brown people and stealing their oil. That's where that 'wealth' comes from. You pay for that wealth in many other places than taxes. The very environment that allows that ‘wealth building’ is also the one that impoverished you and forces you to ‘build wealth’ to escape itself in the first place.

- The concept of 'building wealth' and retiring in the US is ridiculous: The system that is designed to suck away the money of everyone for the biggest investors will attempt to suck all that retirement wealth away from you as well. Be it through inflation mechanics, be it through other financial shenanigans, including eating the money that people accumulate through the unintended loophole that is the 401ks. A system that is designed to suck the money of the majority for the benefit of the minority wont make an exception for you if you have 1-2 million stashed somewhere. Unless you have hundreds of millions of dollars in liquidity that puts you in the topmost echelons of society, you are still a duck to be plucked as far as the system is concerned.

So, true, Western Europe, and actually most of the world is not built to accommodate those who want to 'get rich quick' at the expense of their own people and then still get fleeced in the process. That's what the US is for.