Alas, the current administration is a tyranny, ignoring law. It does whatever it can get away with.

Gee, burning down the CEO's homes is a waste of valuable living space. Evict them and turn the homes into housing for the poor. They'll be full of cockroaches within a month, then be torched by the residents within a decade.

China has the advantage of a genetically superior population, mentally. Whether they'll make their government acceptable is the key issue with respect to whether or not they overtake the US. Europe's governments are varying degrees of kleptocracy, and neither tradition nor the trend favors them. India has possibilities, but is constrained by a massively powerful and corrupt bureaucracy.

Good luck to them all, for the one that advances to freedom will advance economically and be an example to the whole world. I think the US has the best chance.

In-N-Out is not comparable to McDonalds et al. Most McDonalds are franchises; wages are not set by the corporation. In-N-Out sells a premium product. The In-N-Outs I've seen are drivethrough only.

Ford's high wages achieved the goal of acquiring only the best workers. If all manufacturers had started to pay the same as Ford, Ford would not have gotten the best workers, the competitive advantage would disappeared, and Ford's experiment might have failed.

Health costs are not paid for out of nothing. If a person's living expenses exceed the value of what he produces, he is a net burden on society. He then lives either on charity or theft (one form of theft is getting support from the government.)

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Worst of all is this: "In my mind Capitalism requires:"
Capitalism does not require the fulfillment of your fantasy. Capitalism is a system which upholds rights, particularly property rights, considered from an economic perspective Capitalism's only concern with voting methods, health care, wage levels, flex hours (yikes), and other issues large and small is whether or not a person's rights are upheld and (secondarily) whether something is a good economic choice.

No criticism of you, I also failed to realize that I could educate myself if I chose to do so. For a bright, ambitious child with access to an adequate library, teachers are superfluous.

Within Europe, we're very keen on childrens' rights, and thus it's more important that every child is guaranteed access to a good standard of education, and we feel that home-schooling isn't sufficient for that. [emphasis added]

Feeling in not an adequate replacement for thinking.
In the US, largely due to union power, leftist courts, and cowardly/bent administrators, government schools are of poor quality and getting worse. There are two alternatives available for those able to take advantage of them: private schools and home schooling.
Children's rights have to be considered in the context that they are slowly maturing. Failure to do so leads to absurd and harmful results.

Your post is so full of ideological cant it's breathtaking. Freedom means absence of constraint. Anything that twists freedom into something that involves stealing from someone (e.g. free from hunger) is abuse of the English language.

Said right already existed because the member state has the military might to prevent it.

That single sentence shows that you have no concept of the meaning of "right", and invalidates your whole post. Repeating the ages old maxim, "Might does not make right."

Your analogy among solar power, farming, desert rainwater collection, and socialization is defective. Of the four, solar power is unique because its benefits cannot be stored with near 100% effectiveness.

Considering only construction costs, building anything that can't contribute to the baseline load - terrestrial solar and wind - is a waste of money.

People dieing of starvation due to no access to cheap enough foods do not have time to wait until you're happy with "giving direct genetic intervention time to play out".