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TB approach with „national champions“ can work too and may work better in a situation where there’s competitive market with few dominant players with unlimited
by ivan_gammel 6y ago
TB approach with „national champions“ can work too and may work better in a situation where there’s competitive market with few dominant players with unlimited resources. Look at Russia: they have achieved very high digitalization of government and society on locally built infrastructure. There are some state actors involved, e.g. Rostech, but large private companies did the majority of work, quite often not being directly affiliated with oligarchs or officials. The only thing they needed was to direct SOE to buy from local players and close the market for services hosted abroad. Technologically and CX-wise local platforms are strong enough now to expand abroad, but due to political climate this won’t happen soon. Europe can learn some lessons from this and try to do better.
- pydry 6y agoI don't think I would ever point to Russian markets as an example of how well things can work.
- ivan_gammel 6y agoWhat do you know about them?
- CydeWeys 6y agoWell, the median household income there is less than one-fourth of the US, with the concomitant lower standard of living you'd expect.
- vetinari 6y agoOne dollar spent in Russia gets you more than in US. You cannot compare household income directly, you must go through PPP (purchase power parity). Even then, you might have expenses that they don't (medical, for example). So in the end, objective comparison would have to go much deeper, than median household income.
- ivan_gammel 6y agoIt doesn’t even make sense to compare economy in general. Russian economy didn’t grow during last 10 years, but there was significant growth in digital services with big investment in new technology and infrastructure. The government failed in many policies, but digitalization was their real success.
- BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 6y agoNah, try to lose your paper internal passport. Your life will become very difficult. For any medical service, a paper "SNILS" and a paper "OMS" are required too.
- bushin 6y agoThere are only so many turnips you can eat but Apple's Stand is $1000 everywhere.
- vetinari 6y agoNot, it isn't. It is 915 EUR (before VAT) here, which makes it 1072 USD today. Makes it somewhat more than $1000 :-/. On the other hand, my spending on Apple Stands in the last years was very similar to your personal spending on Russian nuclear fuel as used in US nuclear plants. That being $0. Turnips leads this one :).
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoNot every developer needs Apple stands to become successful or build successful companies. A second hand thinkpad could do the job if money is tight.
- dragonelite 6y agoDon't forget while the rest of the world(non US-EU) nations have to do back breaking work to produce products, the euro dollar system can just print and buy those products and life beyond their means. That's the power of having the world reserve currency system.
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- ivan_gammel 6y agoMedian household income in dollar value has absolutely nothing to do with what I wrote.
- StreamBright 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoeven a broken clock is right twice a day
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