Comment Re:For all of you USA haters out there: (Score 1) 378
A lot of the updates in Europe were caused by government regulations. Especially with credit cards.
Europe isn't as anti-regulation as the US is. Powerful people everywhere fight these regulations because the regulations will will cost them money, but in the US, they have a strong backing from people who are just opposed to government regulation in general (Tea-party, libertarians, lees-moderate republicans).
Slow internet, high healthcare costs, and insecure credit cards are the price the US pays for being a country founded on the idea of throwing off the yoke of government.