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Europe Needs Air Conditioning

Josh Barro · 28 Jun 2026

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  1. Europe is not actually poor. Japan is about as wealthy as Europe, and almost all Japanese homes are air-conditioned. Europeans could afford to air-condition their homes (and their hospitals!) just like the Japanese do.
  2. European leftists explicitly advocate that people should be kept poor, uncomfortable, and literally sweating.
  3. elevators are the rare part of the economy where Europeans have embraced market dynamism while Americans choose overregulation and labor market rigidity.

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