Not so long ago, Germans and other Continental Europeans pointed to America's "working poor," as well as to the sorry state of public services in Britain, as defects that supposedly reflected the inevitable price Anglo-Saxon countries must pay for their ruthless form of capitalism. Europeans (Germans in particular), on the other hand, enjoyed the "Rhineland model": a market economy that harnesses economic success to the cause of social justice.
不久前，德国和其它欧洲大陆国还指责美英，说美国的"贫困劳动者"和英国公共服务的糟糕状况恰恰反映了安格鲁·萨克逊国家为无情资本化付出的不可避免的代价。另一方面，欧洲国家（特别是德国）则尽情享受着"莱茵兰模式"：也就是在社会公正的基础上获取经济成功的一种市场经济模式。