I don't equate killing and minimum wages, just bringing up two different examples. Theory may show that min wages are a bad thing, empirical evidence shows otherwise. Standard of living is better in countries with higher minimum wages. Now, is this an unrelated consequence or are there some externalities the theories have left out, I don't know. Either way, I don't think it's a slam dunk for free markets as you claim, mainly because of the main point of my comment, which I feel you both evaded. Not having minimum wages has been tried, everywhere, in every society. In pretty much each of them it didn't work, and minimum wages were enforced.

The point about private ownership though is intriguing, I'll need to digest that a bit.

BTW EU is in trouble mainly because countries with weak economies were let in. For 15-20 years prior to that it was doing pretty good. But apart from that, in theory, what's bad about opening borders and allowing free moving of resources between countries? It's not unlike the US but with more autonomy for the member states.