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> I find it quite off putting, that the general approach of EU institutions is to direct resources and economic activity from the top Isn't that method exactly
by kuschku 6y ago
> I find it quite off putting, that the general approach of EU institutions is to direct resources and economic activity from the top
Isn't that method exactly how the silicon valley, and with it companies like Intel, were created? By the US DoD directing money from the top?
- norwegianwhale 6y agoThe governments spend 45% of GDP yearly. It's very likely that at some point, every company has served the public sector. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM, list goes on, weren't envisaged by a 60 year old bureaucrat sitting in Brussels or Washington. They were created by ambitious young men looking to shape the world in their own way.
- carlmr 6y ago>Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM IBM and Google both came almost directly from government money. Amazon, Microsoft and Netflix are arguably actual startups.
- kuschku 6y agoAlthough Microsoft really started as a subcontractor for IBM, which again shows the knock-on effects good government subsidies can have. Hadn't the DoD started SV, most of these companies wouldn't exist today.
- ChuckNorris89 6y agoHad WW2 never happen or the US not be in such an advantageous geographical position away from the "trouble", SV might not exist today. The snowball/butterfly effect is real.
- sitkack 6y agoSV, Hollywood, the Aerospace-Defense Industry. All of it by purposeful accident. I feel like some in tech want to take responsibility, somehow that American's are just better tech-bros than anyone else. It was mostly chance. Call it what it is, a gift. And take care of it, they only get made by luck.
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- carlmr 6y agoThat's true, i just wanted to point out that two of the given examples were blatantly false.
- imtringued 6y agoEurope has lots of young men doing nothing because they aren't needed.