The description of Gaia-X and that of old world culture sounds like a standard government/enterprise project with all the same problems. The US model comes from

The description of Gaia-X and that of old world culture sounds like a standard government/enterprise project with all the same problems. The US model comes from venture funding, where you seed 10 firms solving the same type of problem, and the most desirable result prevails. The institutional model of increasing stakeholders to produce something that satisfies all of them is what makes enterprise development such a farce. The mentality is captured in the criticism that something is, "underfunded," which is the expression of a worldview that "funding," comes from some welfare oriented source, and not earned as compensation for providing value. The strategies to "get funding," vs. the ones that earn revenue are largely orthogonal, and people with the funding mentality have in effect the opposite of the "growth mindset," that is necessary to build things others want. These development cultures build lots of things, just very few things that anyone uses willingly. It's just more solutions to govern, not tools people need.