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The EU fought hard to create a single market, but the language, cultural and market fragmentation is still strong. It exists to some degree in the US (see for e
by yholio 6y ago
The EU fought hard to create a single market, but the language, cultural and market fragmentation is still strong. It exists to some degree in the US (see for example Tesla's plight with protectionist dealership laws). But at least you don't need completely separate marketing, product branding and distribution in each state. If support and language is an issue, the complexity of EU business explodes. The linguistic bureaucracy of the EU Parliament is a good example, it makes the whole process 4x more expensive and cumbersome.
- konschubert 6y agoLanguage is still an incredible barrier between cultures.
- renewiltord 6y agoThe single market implementation is completely bogus. That's not anyone's fault. It's just that laws that restrict are contravariant against the interface. So European Parliament decides that everyone should have something that meets at least something, so everyone has a piece that meets that something and then more in whichever way they like. But that makes the interface useless to build against. So you meet the German version and the French version and then let all the rinkydink economies like Greece just use those. US laws leave a lot less to the imagination, they are hyper-constrained in general, and there's a large body of work on how to bypass them. Like, Romania may use GDPR to hunt down journalists and company bosses but you know California won't use CCPA that way, so you're cool.